Agile Portfolio and Program Management (ICPPPM)
In this Agile Portfolio and Program Management training course you will learn how to get work to flow from ideas to working software fast. IT practitioners have long known the importance of aligning efforts with business strategy but have approached it with an annual cadence of strategic planning and project selection.
Duration: 20-25hrs
Course Content:
- Introduction – Agile Mindset preview
- What is Portfolio and Program Management
- Strategic Alignment
- Lean Thinking
- Customer Defines Value
- Ideas/Concepts/Realities that are driving the world
- Speed of Change
- Innovation
- Disruption
- Lean Startup
- Adaptive Planning
- Five Levels of Planning
- Geodesic Planning – the shortest path to results
- Map the Value Stream
- A Process that delivers Value to the Customer
- Continuous Flow
- Pull not Push
- Strive for Perfection
- Eliminate Waste
- A System designed to produce the right results
- The right paradigms and mental models
- Transition into Building a System
- The Agile Paradigm
- Manifesto
- Principles
- The Agile Team – A System
- Systems Thinking – Seeing the Whole
- Creating a System that produces desired results
- Agile Practices – part of the System
- Summary of the Paradigm Change
- The Agile Game – might end up as begin of day 2
- Agile Program Management – Building a Business Value Generator
- Vision
- Time
- Culture
- Vision – What is our Value Proposition
- The Ideation Process
- Getting Ideas that will produce Value to the Customer
- Ethnographic Research
- Effective Communication
- The User – Roles and Personas
- Brainstorming
- The A3 Process of Problem Solving
- Making Investment Decision
- Time – Execution
- Scaling Agile above the Team to the Enterprise
- Waves of Agile
- Scaling Methodologies
- Similar Organizational Structures
- SAFe – Digging Deeper into Scaling to provide Program Management
- The Idea Funnel
- Review Process
- Analysis Queue
- Implementation
- Release Planning (PI Planning)
- The Iteration Calendar
- Coordination –
- Scrum of Scrums
- PO Sync
- Release Management
- Retrospectives
- Done
- The Definition of Done
- Levels
- Culture
- Transforming your organization
- John Kotter path to Change
- Getting to a re-wiring – Culture is Anchored
- Wrap-up