Overview

Project Management theory and practice have changed dramatically during the last few years. More and more companies realize they need new management methodologies since traditional project management practices don’t address the challenges of an increasingly complex world. Lean and Agile practices found as good way to manage the risks related to an ecosystem’s uncertainties. They focus on maximizing customer’s competitive advantage, create a clear work flow and achieve effectiveness by reducing wastes along the process. This workshop will focus on modern Agile methods for managing projects in a complex world. It will provide project managers a bridge to Agile and enable them to adopt practical and useful practices to implement in existing project management methodologies. As Agile change agents, they will be able to support the organization in exploring the Agile way and even to move forward with the Agile transition. Target Audience Project Managers, PMO’s, Project Leaders, Release Managers, Managing the Office of the CIO, Team leaders and Mid-Level Managers that are interested in moving forward toward the Agile project management world.

• Project Management methods and the Project Life Cycle
• The main challenges and pains in PM
• Managing in a complex environment
• Waterfall vs. Agile
• The PMBOK
• The Diamond Model One Size does NOT Fit All
• Agile principles
• From Project Management to Product Management
• The New Project Management triangle
• Managing the risk of uncertainty
• Agile Project Management principles (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• The Agile Manifesto
• Main Agile frameworks – Scrum, Kanban
• Managing the flow of work
• The impact of the batch size
• Cycle Time/ Lead Time
• Focus on reducing wastes
• Quality in the process
• Introduction to the main Agile frameworks
• ALM tools
• The Project structure and the PM as a Leader
• Managing complex systems
• The Agile Manager
• The concept of Servant Leader
• Managing Knowledge Workers
• Cross functional Self- organized teams
• From “Agile team” to “teams of teams” – frameworks for Scaling Agile to large organizations
• Portfolio management, Project prioritization and Project initiation
• Lean Startup concepts – Develop products in a highly uncertain environment
• Fast learning cycle – PDCA
• Agile contracts from lose lose to win win
• Project prioritization – Cost of delay
• Managing the Portfolio Kanban
• Project Planning
• 6 levels of planning – Planning in Agile projects
• Focus on the planning not on the Plan
• From WBS to Agile Backlog
• Bottom up planning which creates teams’ commitments
• Project Governance
• Transparency as the basis for Empiric process control
• Agile Inspect and Adopt process
• Sprint, and release tracking
• EVM
• Financial management
• From project budgets to Value stream budget
• Beyond Budget
• Quality Management
• All team QA – The quality in the process
• Quality and Speed concept
• Automation
• Shift Left concept
• The PM and the DevOps
• Problems Solving
• 5 Whys
• Root Cause
• A3
• Fishbone
• Toyota Kata
• Agile Risk Management
• Risks analysis
• FutureSpective practices
• ROAM model for risk management
• The Risks in Agile project and the way to manage it
• The Communication in Agile Projects
• Stakeholders analysis
• Battlefield analysis
• Mutual planning
• Facilitation practices