Agile Portfolio and Program Management (ICP-DAS) Training in South Africa

Students should be familiar with managing Agile projects before taking this course.

• Understand Agile Portfolio and Program Management principles and practices that will transform an organizations ability to get ideas to the development engine Just-In-Time to maximize value and efficiency.
• Gain insights into the reasons for a lean process of continuous adaptive planning that responds quickly to the changing market forces.
• Survey the several different approaches to scaling and explore the considerations that change the Agile approach at scale.
• Learn the impact that higher level management can have on the Team Level Agile process and the importance of changing leadership style to maximize the benefits of Agile.
  Using one scaling approach we will examine some specific details of things that can be done at scale to facilitate Agile planning and execution at Scale.
• Discuss the steps to cultivating an Agile Culture within an organization and making decisions related to leadership style and scaling approaches within the context of the organization.
• Disruption, Agile Innovation, Hoshin Planning, Value Alignment, LEAN, Adaptive Planning, Systems Thinking, Distributed Teams, Choosing the right Agile process, Agile Metrics, Ideation, Ethnographic Exploration, Making Investment Decisions

Day 1

1. Introduction – Agile Mindset preview
2. What is Portfolio and Program Management
3. Strategic Alignment
4. Lean Thinking
   • Customer Defines Value
     • Ideas/Concepts/Realities that are driving the world
       • Speed of Change
       • Innovation
       • Disruption
       • Lean Startup
     • Adaptive Planning
       • Five Levels of Planning
       • Geodesic Planning – the shortest path to results
   • Map the Value Stream
     • A Process that delivers Value to the Customer
   • Continuous Flow
   • Pull not Push
   • Strive for Perfection
     • Eliminate Waste
     • A System designed to produce the right results
       • The right paradigms and mental models
       • Transition into Building a System
5. The Agile Paradigm
   • Manifesto
   • Principles
6. The Agile Team – A System
   • Systems Thinking – Seeing the Whole
   • Creating a System that produces desired results
7. Agile Practices – part of the System
8. Summary of the Paradigm Change
   • The Agile Game – might end up as begin of day 2

Day 2

1. Agile Program Management – Building a Business Value Generator
   
   • Vision
   • Time
   • Culture
2. Vision – What is our Value Proposition
   
   • The Ideation Process
   • Getting Ideas that will produce Value to the Customer
     
     • Ethnographic Research
     • Effective Communication
     • The User – Roles and Personas
     • Brainstorming
     • The A3 Process of Problem Solving
     • Making Investment Decision
3. Time – Execution
   
   • Scaling Agile above the Team to the Enterprise
     
     • Waves of Agile
     • Scaling Methodologies
       
       1. Similar Organizational Structures
     • SAFe – Digging Deeper into Scaling to provide Program Management
       
       1. The Idea Funnel
       2. Review Process
       3. Analysis Queue
       4. Implementation
          
          • Release Planning (PI Planning)
          • The Iteration Calendar
          • Coordination –
            
            • Scrum of Scrums
            • PO Sync
            • Release Management
            • Retrospectives
       5. Done
          
          • The Definition of Done
            
            • Levels
   • Culture
     
     • Transforming your organization
       
       • John Kotter path to Change
       • Getting to a re-wiring – Culture is Anchored
   • Wrap-up