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All of our courses can be customized to your organization. If you don’t see something you need listed here, please reach out to us—we’re happy to partner with you to deliver exactly what you need.
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Agile Introduction
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Agile Scrum Immersion (bootcamp)
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Leading SAFe
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Introduction to Kanban
Adaptive Project Leadership
The digital revolution has altered what it means to be a good leader. Today's leaders must be able to respond as quickly as technology changes—or risk being left behind. This course teaches adaptive project leadership techniques to help you keep up with the pace of change. It covers strategies and skills such as lean product management, adaptive thinking, and agile leadership. Instructor Kelley O'Connell shows how to better understand the customer journey, how to adopt an adaptive mindset, how to manage virtual teams, and how to create a culture of continuous learning and growth. These lessons will help you communicate and collaborate better across the entire organization, deliver products and projects that exceed changing expectations, and stand out as a leader in the digital age.
Learning Objectives:
Defining a design mindset
Lean product management strategies
Journey mapping
Adaptive thinking
Collaboration
Agile project management
Learning Objectives:
Defining a design mindset
Lean product management strategies
Journey mapping
Adaptive thinking
Collaboration
Agile project management
Agile Challenges Weekly Tips
There are many resources for getting started with agile, but few for troubleshooting when agile goes wrong. This weekly series helps you identify and resolve common issues that project teams face when practicing agile. Certified ScrumMaster and agile coach Kelly O'Connell covers challenges such as team dysfunction, siloed activity, misaligned sprint commitments, and lack of training. Her tips address the problems that aren't covered in most agile courses, and give you innovative solutions to help lead your agile team through challenges on the way to success.
Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
Exam Tips: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
By taking and passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam, you prove to your current organization—and potential employers—that you have a solid understanding of agile principles and techniques. Earning this certification can expand your career possibilities and set you apart in your field. With so much at stake, taking the time to adequately prepare for the test is crucial. In this course, explore essential topics that can help you as you prepare to take the PMI-ACP® exam. Join agile trainer Kelley O'Connell as she discusses what you need to know before you even start studying for the test—including the eligibility requirements and how to navigate the audit process. Kelley also reviews each of the core knowledge domains covered in the exam, and shares some beneficial resources. Plus, she goes over how to maximize the time available for your test, and what to expect on the day of your exam.
PMI, PMP, and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
PMI, PMP, and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Scrum: The Basics
If you've spent any time in the project management world, you've likely heard of scrum—the popular framework for managing complex processes. If this mysterious-sounding framework has piqued your interest, this course can help provide you with a basic understanding of what scrum is and how you can start implementing it at work. Follow scrum expert Kelley O'Connell as she walks through why scrum has taken the business world by storm, and how it asks you to organize your team and work. Plus, she explains how to manage your projects and measure how they're faring, and set manageable improvement goals.
Cert Prep: Certified Scrum Master
Become certified as a scrum master and become more marketable in your field. Scrum certification demonstrates your knowledge and abilities to employers and clients, and proves you can be trusted to accomplish important business objectives. This course helps candidates master the foundational knowledge they need to study in order to pass exams such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), and more. Join Kelley O'Connell, agile coach, as she reviews the roles and responsibilities of the scrum team, the different types of scrum events, and the artifacts produced during the scrum lifecycle. Plus, learn how scrum masters track the progress on their projects using burn-down charts and other reports. By the end of the course, you'll understand the foundations of scrum and be ready to take the exam and enjoy the benefits and expanded career opportunities opened by certification.
Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
The agile approach to project management can help companies respond faster and more effectively to change. As a result, having a solid grasp of what agile is—and how to effectively use agile approaches in an organization—can help you increase your value as a project manager, and enhance your personal marketability. In this course, learn about agile principles and the agile mindset, and discover essential strategies for breaking down work in an agile fashion, engaging your stakeholders, planning an agile project, and managing team performance. This course covers the knowledge domains for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam. If you're pursuing the PMI-ACP® certification, this course can help you approach the exam topics with confidence.
Scrum: Advanced
Once you've mastered the basics of scrum, you're ready to take a deeper dive into the popular framework. In this course, learn advanced scrum techniques that can make you and your team even more effective. Kelley O'Connell kicks off the course by reviewing some scrum fundamentals, and explaining how to maximize the effectiveness of your product owner and scrum master roles. Next, Kelley goes into the product owner role, discussing specific ways that you can enhance your product owner skills to make your products unbeatable. She then explores the scrum master role, providing ways that scrum masters can fine-tune their techniques to become better team advocates, and remove impediments that stand in the way of their team's success.
Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Project Management
If your organization is looking to realize the time, quality, and cost benefits of agile project management, this course is for you. Agile expert Kelley O'Connell helps those interested in experimenting with agile understand the difference between traditional waterfall and agile methodologies and what is required for a successful transition between the two. She provides advice on garnering support for a pilot project: by identifying supporters early on and keeping them engaged, while also responding to detractors. She then leads you through the process of choosing the pilot project, selecting the right team, and setting the vision, and provides a short overview of agile basics to you get started. Finally, learn how to perform a retrospective review of the pilot and identify the drivers to continue an agile rollout.
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