Agile Project Management - Chattanooga, TN

8 PDUs Awarded
Scrum Alliance CSD-Elligable Course
No Prerequisites Required
Who should attend? Project Managers Software Development Managers Senior IT Leadership (Directors/VPs/CIOs/CTOs) Anyone interested in learning the benefits of Agile	"Great course. Great introduction to Agile." – Jeff Scott "The Braintrust Agile Project Management course is an outstanding value for any executive, programmer, manager, or product owner. These proven techniques will empower careers and projects at any level in the organization. Other classes just read books and talk about ideas. Brian will push you to experience the techniques with hands on exercises. These exercises show the immediate benefits to empowering your teams and building confidence with pebble sized accomplishments." - Trent Richardson, CIO PlanServe, Former Vice President SunGard "I really enjoyed your Agile Project Management course, you did a great job and I feel like I have a much better understanding of Agile and Scrum, Thank You." – Marshal Wood

Course Overview:

Agile Project Management is an in-depth one day immersion into the world of Agile. The course is full of practical, real world techniques, which can be implemented immediately at your workplace. This course will allow your organization to enjoy the many advantages Agile has to offer. Hands-on exercises demonstrate key concepts and let you experience the benefits of Agile firsthand.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the advantages Agile Project Management can bring to your organization
• Re-engage your customers – both internal and external, by rebuilding trust and putting them in the driver’s seat
• Embrace continuous planning throughout the project lifecycle and gathering real time requirements
• Transition the way you manage your team from "command and control" to "Servant Leadership"
• Facilitate your way to a self organizing/self managing team
• Align your organization around rapid fire issue/risk discovery and elimination
• Identify organizational limitations and practice continuous improvement

 Benefits:

• Increase customer satisfaction and time to market delivery
• Properly align your development efforts around delivering the highest business value features first
• Gain organizational trust and improve your teams reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery by setting them up for frequent successes
• Experience higher team morale and productivity with a fundamental shift in management style
• Focus your personnel efforts on the highest value tasks that will have an immediate impact on your teams level of success
• Improve communications, through transparency and "pull" versus "push" systems
• Achieve greater flexibility and value to your organization by adding another tool to your toolbox

Takeaways:

• Thorough understanding about Agile Project Management using Scrum and Extreme Programming
• A new outlook on the way you manage your project team
• A framework for understanding whether Agile is right for your organization
• The knowledge necessary for incorporating Agile practices into your working environment

About The Instructor:

Brian M. Rabon, CSM, CSP, MSEE, PMP is a Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, and Candidate Scrum Trainer with over 13 years of software development experience. He is a regular instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he has been teaching Technical Project Management at the masters level for the past 3 years. In addition to his work at UAB, Brian is a course designer at Samford University, and a contract instructor for ASPE, Davisbase, New Horizons, and The Solutions Cube Group. Brian has successfully implemented both Extreme Programming and Scrum at multiple companies and experienced firsthand the benefits that Agile Project Management can bring.

Cancellation Policy:

In order to receive a refund of your tuition for this course you must notify us no later than 5 days prior to the course start date. Cancellation requests received after the 5 day window will be issued a credit that can be applied towards a future class.