VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Leading Agile Teams for Product Owners and ScrumMasters

When:  Saturday March 20, 2021 8:30am-5:00pm

Where:  Virtual Live Instruction

Last date for On-line Registration:

Early Bird - 03/07/2021

Regular - 03/14/2021

Price:

Early Bird:  PMISV member: $99     Non-PMISV member: $119

Regular:  PMISV member: $119     Non-PMISV member:  $139

Course Description:

Are you looking for an industry-tested successful path to Agile transformation of your organization? Then here’s your chance to enroll in this workshop. Learn, experience, and take a leap to be the change agent in the real world. This workshop emphasizes the experiential aspects of learning. It’s full of team activities that provide hands-on exercises on Agile concepts especially required for Product Owners and Scrum Masters. You will be able to pick up a simple real-world project and take it to the finish line in terms of learning the Agile concepts.

This course will give you all the information required on Agile/Scrum that will groom you to face the challenges of the current waterfall world and provide you with requisite Agile solutions.

A must-attend if you are:

• A Product Manager aspiring to contribute to Agile environments
• A Project / Program Manager attempting to leading agile teams
• A Management / Executive of Engineering, PMO, Product or Operations chartered to transform the existing teams to deliver with Agile Techniques

Learning objectives:

• Find the pragmatic difference between Theme, Epic, User Story, Task, Defect
• Epic Splitting with Story Mapping
• Identify personas.
• Story Mapping with Personas from Epics
• Write good user stories, a technical story, acceptance criteria, spike?
• Techniques to prioritize user stories
• Techniques to estimate user stories
• Map stories to features and releases
• Create a Roadmap and schedule releases out of the roadmap
• Prioritizing features for Optimal ROI
• Cost of delay and economics of prioritizing features
• Prioritizing Technical Stories with FURPS
• Split Epics / Features to good size stories
• Efficient Backlog grooming techniques
• One backlog with User and Technical Stories Release capacity allocation
• Create a Good Quality Backlog, Stories, and Deliverable and Agile teams
• Rolling Roadmap maintenance
• Multiple Team dependencies
• Introduction to Scaled Agile for the Enterprise (SAFe)

 

Audience:

PMO, Senior executives, Line of Business Owners, Business Unit Leaders, CTO, Product/Program Directors, Lean-Agile Leaders, Agile PMO, Agile change agents, Consultants, Senior Product managers, Chief Product Owners, Program Managers and  Project Managers

 

About the Instructor:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anup Deshpande-PMP, SPC, PMI-ACP, CSP, CSPO, CSM, IGCCA 

Anup has been instrumental in Agile Transformation at the enterprise level and has over 25 years of program and portfolio management experience in the Software Industry. He has served at the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter as a President in 2020 and PMI Silicon Valley as a President in 2012.

He has initiated 2 software product startups successfully. He serves on the Agile Advisory Board and teaches as an Adjunct Faculty at UC Berkeley Extension for a wide variety of Agile and Project Management courses.

He recently founded Trackegy, an EdTech startup specializing in supporting professionals to excel and be confidents at competitive exams offered by PMI or any other certifying organization across domains.

He is currently employed at Broadcom as a Head of Program Management and Business Operations and has tremendous energy to drive the audacious goals of the company. Prior to this, he has worked at various large organizations including Visa, and Yahoo where he spearheaded multiple cross-organizational goals to successful completion. Connect with him on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anupdeshpande

 

Project Management Education Hours:

Earn 8 Technical PDUs

Meeting Leader: Ajay Navaratna

Program Agenda:

08:30 AM - Sign In and Networking

09:00 AM - Workshop Begins

12:00 PM - Lunch Break

12:30 PM - Workshop Resumes

5:00 PM – Adjourn

Questions: Contact memberservices@pmisv.org or Ajay Navaratna (ajaynpmisv@gmail.com)

Cancellation Policy:

• This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members
• Cancellation before Early Bird Registration Date: Full refund
• Cancellation between Early Bird Registration Date and Regular Registration Date: $30 cancellation fee; remaining amount refunded
• Cancellation after Regular Registration Date and Day before workshop (by 5:00 PM Pacific): 50% refund

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