Description

To win in today’s competitive market requires giving your business the ability to deliver highly profitable products faster than the competition. The goal of Lean-Agile software development is the ability to add value quickly to your customers now while retaining the ability to add value quickly in the future.

Most development organizations aren’t structured to do this because they work on large projects that require long delivery cycles.  In this course we teach how to drive from business and customer value to select what you work on and teach the teams how to deliver it incrementally.
This course breaks down and analyses 3 key areas of the Lean Enterprise:

1. Business
   • Prioritize features by highest business/end user value
   • ‘Drive’ the development efforts to incrementally deliver
   • Portfolio Management
2. Development Teams
   • Focus on speed in delivering software functionality
   • Must include functionality, maintainability, and extensibility
   • Requires excellent engineering practices
     
3. Management
   • Focus on the value stream (cycle time—idea to implementation)
   • ‘Drive’ Continuous Standards Improvement
   • Organizational guiding principles, impediment removal

This course is a leadership focused offering that teaches the management skills required to implement Lean-Agile. It is a combination of interactive lecture with a significant amount of time spent on hands-on exercises.  At the end of the course, students may sit for a situational based exam.  With a passing grade, the students earn basic certification in Lean-Agile Project Management. This is a PMI R.E.P course that can be used for category 3 hours.