Description:

The accelerated rate of change brought about by the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of today's world requires a value driven, iterative, and adaptive approach to requirements and planning. It requires a deep, creative collaborative and a short feedback loop between the team doing the work, and the stakeholders who are impacted, to discovering and delivering valuable outcomes.

This popular hands-on, experiencial workshop offers participants the first hand knowledge, experience, and confidence to tackle the requirements and planning of products, solutions, and services using an Agile, value driven and adaptive approach.

Beginning with a clear understanding of value, what is valuable, who we are creating value for and the role of Product Ownership, including the critical role of Product Owner and the evolving role of the Business Analyst in the discovery and communication of value. Particpants will then learn the adaptive planning cycle and experience the levels of planning - taking an idea from concept to value using feedback loops and inspection and adaptation to ensure the solution delivered consistently delights customers and generates value.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the importance of taking a value driven approach for faster time to market and customer delight.
Learn how to identify and quantify value.
Understand the role of product owner.
Explore the evolving role of the business analyst.
Understand how to adaptively plan through each stage of the planning onion.
Gain hands-on experience of planning a project from the vision to the daily activities that bring the product / service or solution to life:

Develop the shared vision of the project / product
Understand Users and Customers using Personas and empathy mapping
Develop the initial scope and product backlog using Impact Mapping & Story Mapping.
Understand prioritization and tradeoffs
Defining an MVP and incremental value delivery.
Learn how to effectively elicit requirements and manage stakeholder needs.

Practice writing good user stories & progressively elaborate on requirements in a just in time manner

Story Estimation using Planning Poker and High-Speed estimating techniques
Story Splitting / Decomposition / Aggregation.
Generating conditions of satisfaction and Acceptance Criteria.
Additional Information to support a user story.

Learn effective tools for stakeholder management including estimating and forecasting techniques.
Explore effective techniques to manage and track the process of getting stories ready.

Target Audience:

Product Owners, Business / Functional / Systems Analysts, Product Managers, Project Managers, Functional Managers, Directors, Agile Executives, and Agile Team Members or anyone else interested in learning how to take a value driven and adaptive approach to planning and requirements.

Training Includes:

Lunch and refreshments on both days
A comprehensive workshop
Certificate of Completion

Duration:

2 - Days

Learning Credits:

14 PDUs for PMI
14 SEUs for Scrum Alliance

Facilitator:

Anjali Leon is a veteran Agile Coach and Trainer who has introduced Agile principles and practices in a variety of industries including high-tech, energy, education, healthcare, retail, and government. Her experience as an Agile Practicioner and her prior fifteen years of technical and leadership experience in a variety of roles – including Lead Software Engineer and Director of Product Development, give her the unique perspective of the delicate balance between rigor and flexibility necessary for organizations to be agile and remain competitive.

Anjali brings her vast experience, an interactive, participatory and engaging teaching style, and Training from the Back of the Room techniques to create an experience that not only leave her learners feeling inspired, knowledgeable, competent, and energized to put their learning into practice, but looking forward to the next time they can attend one of her classes!

Her credentials include a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University. She also holds certifications as a PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Professional), CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), CSP (Certified Scrum Professional), SPC4 (Scaled Agile Professional), KMP (Kanban Management Professional) and is a recognized Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF) and Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) through IC Agile. She is also certified as an AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF). Anjali is an active member of South Florida’s Agile community and regularly speaks and volunteers at Agile events and conferences. She founded the South Florida Women In Agile group and mentors budding agilists.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-leon-a97b636

Cancellation Policy:

Organizer reserves the right to cancel the class with a full refund.

Cancellation before March 19, 2018 will receive a full refund

Cancellations within between March 19 and March 26, 2018 will receive a 50% refund or full credit towards a future class.

No refund for cancellations after March 26, 2018

Building Community and Giving Back:

Be a part of building community! PPL is committed to giving back to the South Florida community.

For a public training offered by PPL, we reserve some free seats for those who may not be able to afford the class.

Your company can unlock one of these free seats! Any company that purchases 2 tickets unlocks a free slot for someone who is in transition (between jobs) or a full-time student.

If you are a person in transition or a full-time student interested in this class, contact Anjali at aleon@ppl-coach.com to get on the waitlist for a free seat.

Value Driven and Adaptive Planning Workshop (An Agile Requirements and Planning Workshop)