Agile Program Management with Scrum Public Course

Starts: Tuesday April 07, 2009 at 8:00am
Ends: Wednesday April 08, 2009 at 5:00pm
Event Type: Training/Seminar
Region: Greater Seattle Area
Location: SolutionsIQ HQ
10785 Willows Road NE, Suite 250
Redmond, WA 98052 US
Price: $1,500
Website: http://solutionsiq.com/services/course-catalog.php#apms
Industry: information technology and services
Keywords: Agile, Training, Management, Scrum, Program, Process
Intended For: Anybody in the organization that is looking to scale and manage Scrum practices into multiple teams and/or products and looking to roll out Agile across the enterprise. This could include product managers, product owners, project managers, program manager
Organization: SolutionsIQ

The Agile Program Management course is designed to increase your ability to scale Agile practices to deliver large-scale enterprise initiatives with maximum value to customers, product owners, and stakeholders. You will learn how to build effective Agile programs that leverage your successful Agile practices, enabling you to take on even more complex development challenges. The course will also teach you how to better plan and manage to ensure multiple teams working on various initiatives are coordinating to meet overall enterprise objectives.

This course covers aspects of Agile at the program level:

  • Agile Program Management: Understand how Agile concepts affect the activities of the traditional Program Management Office (PMO). Planning in programs: Learn to expand Agile planning concepts to meet the iteration planning needs of multiple teams.
  • Program communication: Synchronize plans, concepts, product feedback, and process improvement with Scrum and MetaScrum practices.
  • Roles in Agile programs: Learn about the new roles required to successfully manage larger initiatives while honoring Agile principles of simplicity and flat organizations.
  • Metrics for Agile programs: Learn how to successfully create metrics that respect Agile principles while providing visibility and information to make key decisions across the enterprise.
  • Dispersed teams: Learn practices to help you to optimize multicultural, globally dispersed teams.