Live Webinar – February 10th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

This session will have a lot of information but covered in an introductory and compare and contrast way to allow you to get an objective picture based on your experience.

Agile is not a panacea or a methodology. At its foundation it is a way of working that permeates everything you do at work. David will discuss how that is and what that means.

Over 250,000 people have become certified in some form of Agile practice or flavor.

The industry standard body for Project Management, PMI, has introduced a certification for Agile (PMI-ACP introduced officially in Jan 2013).

Steven Denning (LinkedIn profile) has written a book about his development of a new flavor of Agile for management and leaders called The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. IC Agile, a world-wide standards organization for Agile, is even working on a designation for using Agile in marketing and product management.

This thing called Agile is here to stay!

The reality thought is the vast number of SDLC and business professionals might have heard of it but really don’t know what it is. Or they were given a small snap shot picture of an element of how it works.

In this fast paced one hour web seminar, David will take a very methodical approach to provide a full picture of what Agile is, how it works, who is using it and how you can use it.  He will try to leave time for questions and will keep the session open an extra 10 mins to cover questions.

David will cover the following topics:

• What is driving the need to use Agile
• How management and workers need to change to utilize Agile successfully
• Break down of what Agile is
• The two fundamental concepts of Agile: Self-organization and Iterating
• High level overview of the Agile Practices and Organization
  • Work vs Role
  • Development unit / Business unit
  • ScrumMaster
  • Product Owner
  • User Story / task board / burndown
  • Five levels of planning in Agile
  • Estimating in Agile
  • Sprint aka Iteration
  • Definition of Done
  • Retrospective
  • Rolling to the next iteration
• A quick look at Agile Flavors
• A look at who is using Agile and How
• Roadblocks and Challenges
• Certification options

If you can’t stay, the full answers to questions will be provided on our blog and Aspe will provide that link with the slides a few days after the presentation.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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