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.

This popular, hands-on workshop offers participants the first-hand knowledge, experience, and confidence to tackle the delivery of products, solutions, and services using an outcome based, value driven and adaptive approach. This 2-day experiential journey has participants engaged in solving a real-world problem using creative, collaborative and engaging techniques to transform a vision to create valuable outcomes for the customer, facilitating short feedback loops and an adaptive, iterative and incremental approach. Expect to leave with a shift

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore how to take a value driven approach to ensure faster time to market and customer delight.
• Recognize the roles of Product Manager, Product Owner and Business Analyst in discovering and communicating value.
• Identify the Product Ownership model that may be best suited for your organization.
• Articulate how an adaptive planning approach affects all layers of the planning cycle.
• Learn how to effectively elicit requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Practice effective planning techniques from vision to defining incremental value iteratively.
• Develop the shared vision of the project / product.
• Understand Users and Customers needs and wants using Personas and empathy mapping
• Develop the product backlog using Impact Mapping & Story Mapping.
• Uncover models to help with prioritization and tradeoffs.
• Define an MVP and incremental value delivery.
• Progressively elaborate on user stories in a just in time manner.
• Incorporate effective feedback loops to ensure you are building the right thing.
• Apply effective techniques to manage and track discovery work.

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

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 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 operate with agility 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 I (Kanban Management Professional I) 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 July 9, 2018 will receive a full refund

Cancellations within between July 9 and July 18, 2018 will receive a 50% refund or full credit towards a future class.

No refund for cancellations after July 18, 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 spots and discounted spots. If you are a person in transition or a full-time student interested in this class, or you work for a non-profit organization, contact Anjali at aleon@ppl-coach.com and learn how you can reserve one of these spots.

Your company can be part of the #buildcommunity initiative! Any company that purchases 2 tickets unlocks a free slot for someone in transition (between jobs) or a full-time student.