This seminar focuses on the uncertainty that surrounds any project. Project Risk Management is designed to have the participant learn core project risk management concepts and best practices, and learn tools that are used to proactively manage project risk. During the course, “best practices” will be introduced, and put into context through various exercises and scenarios and case studies.

Target Audience:

Students enrolling in this course should be planning to lead a project (primary audience) or serve on a project team (secondary audience)

Pre-requisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you have some working knowledge or experience in working in a project environment, or have completed a foundations course in project management.

Course Duration:

• 14 hours (2 Days)

Course Content:

Introduction to Project Risk Management

• Course Objectives
• Session Overview
• Class Materials
• Student Introductions

Project Risk Management Project

• Risk Definition
• Risk Impacts
• Risk Events and
• Risk Conditions
• Risk Management vs. Issues Management
• Why Manage Risks?
• What Happens if you don’t Manage Risks?
• Exercise – Identify typical project risks
• Practical Risk Management Guidelines
• Underlying PM Concept
• Project Constraints
• Project Objectives
• Managing Uncertainty
• Project Manager’s Role in Risk Management
• Team Member Roles
• Risk Management – A Structured Approach
• Tailoring Risk Management
• PMBOK® Guide Project Risks Management Processes
• Sample Project – Case Study

Plan Risk Management

• Risk Management – A Structured Approach – Step 1
• Project Subsidiary Management Plans
• Components of a Risk Management Plan
• Risk Tolerance
• Risk Management Planning Meeting
• Risk Categories
• The Risk Breakdown Structure
• Exercise- Develop a Risk Breakdown Structure
• Meeting Guidelines
• Exercise- Risk Management Planning Meeting

Identify Risks

• Risk Management –
•  A Structured Approach – Step 2
•  Identify Risks
• Process Approach to Risk Management
• Identify Risks tools and techniques
• Brainstorming
• Crawford Slip Adaptation
• Risk Characteristics
• Project

Risk Assessment

• Why Assess and Rank Risks?
• Risk Management – A Structured Approach – Step 3
• Risk Assessment
• Frequency or Risk Assessments
• Perform Qualitative
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Probability of Occurrence
• Risk Impacts to Project Objectives
• Which Type of Assessment
• Using the Risk Characteristics in Assessment
• Perform Qualitative
• Risk Analysis Tools and Techniques Scales of Probability Scale of Impact Using a Probability Impact Grid (PIG) Assessing Risk using a PIG
• Exercise – Assess Project
• Risks using a PIG
• Risk Assessment Changes over Time Perform Quantitative
• Risk Analysis Using Statistics to Forecast Perform Quantitative
• Risk Analysis Tools and Techniques Sensitivity Analysis Expected Monetary Value (EMV) Analysis Decision-Tree Analysis
• Decision-making Steps Decision Tree Example Evaluating a
• Decision Tree Exercise – Perform a
• Decision-Tree Analysis Monte Carlo Simulation Demo –
• Monte Carlo Simulation

Plan Risk Responses

• Risk Management – A Structured Approach – Step 4
• Risk Response goals Using the Risk Characteristics in
• Risk Response Planning Plan
• Risk Responses Tools and Techniques Responses for Threats Avoid the
• Risk Transfer the risk Mitigate the
• Risk Mitigation Guidelines Acceptance as a response Responses for Opportunities Exploit the risk Share the
• Risk Enhance the risk
• Risk Triggers Residual
• Risks Secondary Risks Contingency Reserves Contingency Reserves vs. Management Reserves Developing the
• Risk Response Plan Exercise –
• Develop a Risk Response Plan

Control Risks

• Control Risks
• Risk Management – A Structured Approach – Steps 5 & 6
• Monitoring
• Risks Using the
• Risk Characteristics in Control
• Risks Controlling Risks Control
• Risks Tools and Techniques
• Risk Audits Variance and Trend Analysis Reserve Analysis Status Meetings Tracking and Reporting on project risk Outputs of Control
• Risks Exercise – Perform a Risk Re-Assessment

Continuous Improvement

• Lessons Learned
• Risk Management – A Structured Approach – Step7 Improving the
• Risk Management Plan Project Issues Issues Management Issues Management Plan Process Flow for Issues Management Issues Management Best Practices Capstone Exercise – Perform
• Risk Management Activities on a short case study Course Summary Course Revie

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Through this 3-day workshop, 21 hours, participants will learn how to manage projects more efficiently, ensuring the projects are delivered on time and within budget according to their scope statement. Participants will identify their strengths and weaknesses as Project Managers; gain skills in initiating, planning, executing, controlling and evaluating their projects.

Course Duration:

• 3 Days ( 21 hours )

Course Content:

• Introduction to project management.
• Defining  the forms of organizations
• Project initiation :
  • Defining project selection criteria,
  • Defining project selection  methods,
  • Develop project charter, and
  • Develop preliminary project charter;
• Project planning:
  • Defining Scope planning,  definition,  statement,
  • Create WBS,
  • Defining HR planning,
  • Defining communication planning,
  • Defining time planning,
  • Activity definition and sequencing,
  • Activity recourse estimating,
  • Schedule development,
  • Defining the critical path methods,
  • Defining cost estimating, budgeting and cost baseline,
  • Defining project risk;
• Project executing:
  • Direct and manage project execution,
  • Manage HR executing “Acquire and Develop project team”,
  • Manage Communication executing “Information distribution”,
• Monitor and control a project by:
  • Monitor and control project work,
  • Establishing performance measurement and reports,
  • Verification of  the project scope,
  • Managing project team,
  • Managing stakeholders, and
  • Managing change control “change control system”,
  • Controlling Scope change, and
  • Risk monitor and control;
• Closing the project :
  • Administrative closure procedure,
  • Analyzing the project, and
  • Producing a final product, service, result and report.

Course Customization Options

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The Agile methodology is a collection of principles that value adaptability and flexibility. Agile aims to provide better responsiveness to changing business needs and therefore focuses on enabling teams to deliver in workable increments. It will focus to enhance delivering maximum value against business priorities in the time and budget allowed, especially when the drive to deliver is greater than the risk. Principles include: The project breaks a requirement into smaller pieces, which are then prioritised by the team in terms of importance, while Kanban is a visual system for managing work as it moves through a process. Kanban visualizes both the process (the workflow) and the actual work passing through that process.

Course Objectives:

• The purpose of this training is to acquire knowledge and practice of the workshops  aspects of Kanban and Agile foundations.

Target Audience:

• IT Director
• Project Manager
• Technical Team Leader
• Analyst
• Software Developer
• Tester

Pre-requisites:

• Participation in the “Agile Project Management with Scrum” training course.

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

Introduction to Agile

• Why Agile?
• What are the main objectives of Agile?
• How works mechanisms in Agile?
• How Agile can help?

Command & Control vs. Agile

• Factory model
• The functioning of canon
• The functioning of missile
• Pillars of Kanban
• Big Picture

Process

• Concepts behind Kanban
• Kanban Rules
• Metrics
• Flow Diagram
• + technical practices

Team work

• Shared responsibility
• Self-organization
• Interdisciplinary
• Benefit the “right” team work

Kanban Board

• How to visualize process?
• How to create Kanban Board?
• What are and how to introduce WIP limits?
• What are and how to introduce Classes of Service?

Customer Engagement

• The most common waste
• Value Stream

Waste

• Value Stream Mapping
• Waste analysis
• Main concepts behind Kaizen (MUDA / MURI / MURA)
• Bottlenecks analysis
• Five Focusing Steps

Simulation

• Simulation game
• Discussions
• Advanced topics

Course Customization Options

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The objective of this course is to bring the participant to a level where he understands why and how the adoption of Agile and Kanban could benefit his current work. The participant is initiated to the vocabulary and best practices for Lean, Agile, Kanban and determines the right level of agility to start with, in relation to his Company/Department Business Model.

Course Objectives:

• How to build a Product Plan and explain the fundamentals behind it
• How to manage the Product Development using Kanban Project Management
• Explain the different Kanban Maturity level and make an assessment with the team
  • The Product owner understand the Product Development Focus
  • The Team understand and is able to use efficiently the Kanban Methodology to deliver a Product
  • The Product Owner and the Team are able to conduct all Kanban meetings if relevant to the Team activity

Target Audience:

• Any developer who intends to build REST APIs for Rich Internet / Mobile Application

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hrs )

Course Content:

• Lean
• Mura, Muri, Muda & Common Sense
• Vision / Strategy / Product
• How a product is built?
• Role & Responsibilities of the Product Owner
• What is Agile?
• Agile Manifesto
• The Agile Umbrella
• Kanban Project Management
• What is Kanban ?
• Kanban versus Scrum
• Kanban Principles & Practices
• Project Planning
• What is a Feature?
• What are Epics, User Stories and Tasks
• How to Write a User Story?
• Features & Release Plan
• Estimation
• Roles in Kanban
• Kanban Board
• Kanban Meetings
• Kanban Maturity Model
• Kanban Tracking

Course Customization Options

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As a Super ScrumMaster and CIO, I have been multiple times amazed by how far a Scrum Team can get better and better and keep getting better!

Course Objectives:

• As a Super ScrumMaster and CIO, I have been multiple times amazed by how far a Scrum Team can get better and better and keep getting better!

Target Audience:

• Any IT professionals
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Agile Team
• Program Manager
• Technology Leads

Pre-requisites:

• Required reading Agile Methodology

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

• Project Team Health Monitoring
• Leadership Team Health Monitoring
• The Velocity can always improve! Understand it. Tracking it. Respect it.
• Self-assessment, Metrics, Reporting, Action Plan
• Technology Team – Agile Continuous Improvement Assessment Matrix
• The Roadmap for Improving Results
• The Impact of Good Leadership
• Hands-on exercises
• Q & A
• Closing and Remarks

Course Customization Options

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Too often Corporate using Agile Implementation for Projects relies on Excel or Powerpoint, producing Gantt Chart to manage programs. This is a frequent mistake. This course will teach Product Owners, Program Managers and Agile Team how – together- perform and report on Program Management.

Course Objectives:

• Using one of the best Atlassian Market Place Plugin for Jira, the participants will learn how to implement an entire Program involving multiple Scrum Teams and the golden rules to get successful.

Target Audience:

• Any IT professionals
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Agile Team
• Program Manager
• Technology Leads

Pre-requisites:

• Required reading Agile Methodology

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

• Managing a Project with multi-located teams
• Building a Product based on multiple silos
• Scrum of Scrum
• Jira Plugins for Program Management
• Build your Product Plan in Jira
• Program Manager, Jira, and Program Stakeholders
• Program Manager, Jira and Jira Team
• Jira Teams & Dependencies
• Hands-on exercises
• Q & A
• Closing and Remarks

Course Customization Options

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The objective of this course is to get the trainee familiar with the Jira interface as a user, a project admin, a scrum master, or a manager. From creating a project, a board, an issue, writing proper Product Requirements, Epics and User Stories, and finally generating reports thru the life of the project. But first of all, we are starting this training by an Agile Team Health Check to answer Agile fundamentals that haven’t been lost along the way.

Course Objectives:

• To refocus his Agile practices.
• Create a Scrum project, a Kanban project, and a project with the same configuration of another one.
• Create a Board. How Workflow and Board are related.
• Create a Workflow. Manage transition & screens.
• Create an issue & update the issue during its lifecycle.
• Manage Product Backlog & Sprint Backlog.
• Define Fields and Screens schemes.
• Check and modify the Project Configuration.
• Generate and understand reports.
• Using the Jira issue search function and define filters.
• Manage Releases.
• Write Product’s documentation and Test cases in Confluence.

Pre-requisites:

• Required reading Agile Methodology

Target Audience:

• Any IT professionals
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Agile Team
• Program Manager
• Technology Leads

Course Duration:

• 1 Day ( 7 hours )

Course Content:

• Jira – Introduction
• Confluence – Introduction
• Linking Jira & Confluence
• Creating a project in Jira
• Epic & User Story mapping in Jira
• Writing Product Requirements in Confluence
• Issue Types
• Creating a Scrum board and a Kanban board
• Configuring the project workflow and board
• Correct Fields & Screens per issue type
• How to manage efficiently a project in Jira
  • Mandatory fields
  • Workflow
  • Stages
  • Real-time updates
• Reporting
  • Sprint report
  • Burndown chart report
  • Release chart report
• Management Report in Confluence
• Requirements, User Stories, Test Cases in Confluence
• Reporting – Burndown chart – Activity
• Product Planning & Releases
• Epics & User Stories
• Jira Dashboard
• Search, Advance Search & Filters
• Showing Jira information in Confluence
• For cloud-only: Stride / Jira linkage
• Hands-on exercises
• Q & A
• Closing and Remarks

Course Customization Options

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This 2-day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers, and customers of software development wishing to have a stakeholding in the development process.

Course Objectives:

• To implement Agile Methodology

Target Audience:

• Any IT professionals
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Agile Team
• Program Manager
• Technology Leads

Pre-requisites:

• No pre-requisites

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

• Vision / Strategy / Product
• How a product is built?
• Role & Responsibilities of the Product Owner
• What is Agile?
• Agile Manifesto
• Self-organized Team
• Agile vs Traditional Project Management methodologies
• Agile in practice
• Product Road Map / Releases
• Scrum Master, Scrum Team
• Epic, User Story, Task
• Spring Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Scrum vs Kanban
• Choosing between Kanban & Scrum
• Agile: How to start
• Agile for your Customer
• Hands-on exercises
• Q & A
• Closing and Remarks

Course Customization Options

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Jenkins is a continuous integration server written in the Java Programming Language. This training course will give you a thorough grounding in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts and give you the necessary skills to implement them using Jenkins. You can master the core concepts of Deployment, Integration, Installing, and Configuring several tools associated with Jenkins along with related concepts. It is a self-contained open source automation server used for automating all types of tasks associated with building, testing, and deploying software. Jenkins continuously builds and tests the software and monitors the status and execution of remote jobs.

Course Objectives:

• How to effectively use Jenkins for building, testing, analyzing, and deploying Java projects.
• Learn how to install Jenkins CI Server on windows.
• Implementing Jenkins and a continuous integration system.
• Install and configure several tools that can be used with Jenkins.

Pre-requisites:

• Basic knowledge of Java
• Knowledge of application servers like tomcat, JBoss, glassfish, etc.
• software development process knowledge

Target Audience:

• DevOps Engineers
• System Administrators
• Developers

Course Duration:

• 2 Days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

Module 1: Introducing Jenkins – An Open Source Automation Server

• Introduction
• History of Jenkins
• Jenkins Fundamentals
• Continuous Integration(CI) with Jenkins
• Shift from Hudson to Jenkins
• Which to use? Hudson or Jenkins

Module 2: Getting started with Jenkins

• Introduction
• Download and Install Jenkins
• Setting up Environment
• Tools setup
• Install Plugins
• Build your first job with Jenkins
• Your first job in progress
• Building reports and displaying Javadocs

Module 3: Plugins

• Introduction to Plugins
• Integrating Plugins with Jenkins
• Managing and Upgrading Plugins
• Working of Plugins
• Commonly used Plugins

Module 4: Setting your first build job

• Introduction to Jenkins Build Jobs
• Build a freestyle software project
• Source code configuration
• Build Triggers
• Scheduling Build Jobs
• Adding a build step: Post-build action
• Running your New Build Jobs
• Working with Maven

Module 5: Advanced Build Jobs features and Security

• Parameterized Builds and Distributed Builds
• Enable security for Jenkins
• Securing Jenkins: Different Authentication Levels
• Creating Administrator User
• Types of Access
• Conclusion

Module 6: Jenkins Setup to Implement Automated Testing

• Introduction to Automated Testing
• Unit Automation and Tests Integration
• Tests Reports Configuration
• Publishing Tests results
• Code Coverage and Other Metrics
• Automated Acceptance Tests with JMeter
• Automated Performance Tests with JMeter

Module 7: Improving Code Quality using Other Metrics

• Introduction
• Look for faulty codes through code coverage
• PMD ruleset activation
• Custom ruleset creation
• Detecting bugs from FindBugs
• Enable extra FindBugs rules
• Discovering security defects with FindBugs
• Reporting with JavaNCSS
• Checking Style Using an External pom.xml

Module 8: Arrangement of Nodes and Master-Slave

• Introduction to Nodes
• Configuring and Managing Nodes
• Distributing and Binding jobs to the Nodes
• How to setup Master-Slave configuration

Module 9: Jenkins Maintenance and Backup

• Maintaining Jenkins
• Moving Jenkins from one server to another
• Do’s and don’t s in Jenkins setup

Module 10: Deploying Application to Web Server and Continuous Delivery

• Introduction to Automated Deployment and Continuous Delivery
• Implementing Automated and Continuous Deployment
• Deployment of Application to an Application Server
• Deployment of Java Web Application using Tomcat
• Hands-on exercises
• Q & A
• Closing and Remarks

Course Customization Options

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The Agile methodology is a collection of principles that value adaptability and flexibility. Agile aims to provide better responsiveness to changing business needs and therefore focuses on enabling teams to deliver in workable increments. It will focus to enhance delivering maximum value against business priorities in the time and budget allowed, especially when the drive to deliver is greater than the risk. Principles include: The project breaks a requirement into smaller pieces, which are then prioritised by the team in terms of importance, while Kanban is a visual system for managing work as it moves through a process.  Scrum is a framework that helps teams work together. Much like a rugby team (where it gets its name) training for the big game, scrum encourages teams to learn through experiences, self-organize while working on a problem, and reflect on their wins and losses to continuously improve.

Target Audience:

These 2 days course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers and customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

Pre-requisites:

• None

Course Duration:

• 2 days ( 14 hours )

Course Content:

Why Agile?

• Comparison of iterative methodologies
• Why things go wrong
• The Agile approach
• What is Scrum?
• Pigs and chickens

Product owner

• The customer representative
• Prioritizing product requirements
• Writing effective stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Negotiating sprint contents
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements

The sprint

• Sprint backlog
• Sprint planning: what to do
• Sprint planning how to do it
• What happens during a sprint
• Burn down charts
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

Scrum Master

• Implementing Scrum
• Ensuring proper practices
• Maintaining documentation
• Stand-up meetings
• When to pair program
• Group exercise to implement Scrum

Finishing a sprint

• Scrum review meeting
• Scrum retrospective meeting
• Releasing an iteration
• Group exercise the review a sprint

Is Agile and Scrum for you?

• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Group exercise to discuss which aspects of Agile and Scrum can be applied to attendees organisations

Course Customization Options

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