Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for experienced project managers who are certified as Project Management Professionals (PMP)®.

  • Experienced Project Managers using predictive (waterfall) methods at work and want to adopt agile strategies to improve the performance of their work.



  • Consultants who manage projects for clients and want to start using agile techniques and strategies to increase the value of their services to existing or future clients.



  • Project team members who feel the need for more agility in their projects and want to propose and implement agile strategies to improve their projects.



At the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Apply the agile mindset to your projects, enabling faster results through more streamlined processes.



  • Assess if projects should adopt a predictive (waterfall), agile or a hybrid approach.



  • Understand different roles in an agile environment (Scrum Master, Product Owner, etc.), their importance for the projects and how to interact with them



  • Initiate an agile transformation in your organization or in the organization of your clients.



  • Make educated decisions about the next steps that you want to take to steer your (agile) project management career.



  • Understand the Scrum method, Kanban and Lean practices and apply the corresponding strategies to your projects.



What You Will Receive

Focused Lessons

Focused bite-sized lessons giving you the exact amount of information that you need to learn and apply the knowledge acquired at work.

Self-Paced Course

The modules and lessons respect your agenda. This e-learning platform allows you to learn at your pace, stop, resume and review lessons as you need.

Support

Support by e-mail that you can use as needed to ensure full understanding of the concepts and how to apply them at work.

Certificate of Completion

This course provides you with a certificate of completion at the end that you can keep for your records.

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

This course provides 3 Professional Development Units that you can claim with the Project Management Institute (PMI) once the course is completed.

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Improve your projects through agile best practices

Agile Mindset Transformation for PMPs

Course Curriculum

Module 1 – Introduction

Welcome

You are PMP, now you need to be agile

What this course brings to you

How to use this e-learning platform

How to use this course

How to take this course to the next level

Module 2 – Agile Project Management

What is Agile project Management

Is Agile Replacing Waterfall Practices?

Myths about Agile Project Management

The Agile Mindset

The inverted triangle of constraints

A different way to manage scope ( from WBS to backlog)

Welcoming change : what that really means

Servant leadership

PO

As a PMP, how you can start thinking differently

Module 3 – The Agile Manifesto

The 4 Values of the Agile Manifesto

Value 1- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Value 2 - Individuals and Interaction Over Processes and Tools

Value 3 - Adapting to change over following a plan

Value 4 - Working software over comprehensive documentation

How these 4 values are different from the ones that you have as a PMP

Module 4 – Agile Methods and Toolboxes

The toolbox mindset : more than the PMBOK Guide's framework

The main agile methods and toolboxes

Introduction to Scrum

Introduction to Lean

Introduction to kanban

Introduction to Disciplined Agile

Module 8 – The Path to Implement Agile Practices

Assess your organisation's readiness to business agility

The broccoli anecdote

What to do if you are a consultant

What to do if you are a project manager

What to do if you are a member of a project team

How to drive your career

Module 5 – The Scrum Method

What it is

the 3 principles

The general life cycle

the 3 artifacts

The 5 ceremonies

Ceremony 1: Backlog refinement

Ceremony 2 : Sprint planning

Ceremony 3 : Daily Scrum

Ceremony 4: Sprint Review

Ceremony 5 : Retrospectives

How you can start using scrum practices right now

Module 6 – Lean

What it is

The origin

Lean principles

The 7 wastes of lean

How you can start using Lean practices right now

Module 7 – Kanban

What it is

The origin

The basic template

The 2 main principles

Example

How you can start using Kanban practices right now

Module 9 – Wrapping Up

Taking This Course to the Next Level: The VIP Package

Final Feedback Survey

Your Professional Development Units (PDUs)

Discount Coupon for the DASM® Smart Bootcamp

Discount Coupon for the PMI-ACP® Smart Bootcamp

Join the Disciplined Agile Whatsapp Group

Ebook "2021 Agile Project Management Trends"

List of online collaboration tools

Do you want to talk more about Agile and your Career?

Bonus 1- Disciplined Agile

Bonus 2 - Agile certifications

Bonus 3 - The journey to Bussiness Agility

Bonus 4 - Managing an Agile portofolio

Your Instructor

Alcides Santopietro, PMP, MGP, PMI-ACP, DASSM, CSM


Alcides has 20 years of experience in Project Management in various industries including Marketing, IT, engineering and aviation, and has spent 10+ years designing and delivering project management training and exam preparatory courses in multiple formats, in different countries and languages.



The portfolio of training programs designed and delivered by Alcides include PMP®, PMI-ACP®, DASM®, DASSM® prep courses, fundamentals of project management, project cost management, project risk management, earned value management, project planning, project portfolio management and project management business games.



Alcides is currently a lecturer at two universities: Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR) and Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) and also works as consultant and instructor for Jump Professional Training.




If You're Looking for More:



Consider the VIP Package: in addition to the self-paced "Agile Mindset Transformation for PMPs" course, you'll have access to live sessions with experienced professionals that will take your learning experience to a different level.



The live sessions (held through video conference) are real coaching and networking sessions. A unique opportunity to have your real-life project-related issues discussed and resolved.



The VIP live sessions happen every week on different days and times to accommodate different time zones. A full schedule will be provided to you as soon as you enrol.



The VIP package gives you access to 3 months of live sessions.



Pricing options

Self-paced course
$99.00
VIP Package
$199.00

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Although this course was originally designed for PMPs, anyone with an understanding of Predictive (Waterfall) Project Management can benefit by learning these approaches.

You can use this course as an introduction to agile practices but keep in mind that basic project management topics won't be covered or explained in the course since it's designed for experienced professionals.

There is no time limit. You take the lessons at your own pace and you can always review lessons as needed.

The VIP plan gives you access to a community of professionals that meet regularly to discuss project-related matters aligned with the topic of the course. It is an extraordinary opportunity to exchange, learn from others and network.

Absolutely. Agile and hybrid project management strategies and methods are applied in all industries. This course is an excellent opportunity to learn how you can do that.

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