Project Management

Project management training for innovative, complex or creative projects in an industrial enterprise, using AGILE project management methodology. Explore the differences between traditional design-and-build project execution and the execution of discovery-driven innovation projects, where outcomes are uncertain. Understand the Agile terminology: Roles, Artefacts, Tools; when and where to use, the differences between conventional project management. See how with suitable adaptation industrial new product development can benefit from Agile techniques.

Technology Maestro is pleased to be working as an associate in the United Kingdom to Solid Creativity in providing in-depth training on Agile Project Management for Industry. Read more about Solid Creativity's novel approach to Agile at Agile.how.  

Sponsor Training

For managers, strategy leaders, organisation change-agents, wishing to assess how good a fit Agile might be.  Identify when the Agile approach might be needed on particular projects, understand what is necessary for successful deployment, develop measures to demonstrate benefits and onward improvements.

Duration: 1 Day

Morning

• Basics reminder of project management principles

• What projects suit Agile

• What Agile treats differently in Project Risk Management, task/objective setting, reporting, rhythm of development.

• Jargon, structure team type, roles, functions

Afternoon

• Linking the Agile team with

  • customers (internal and external)

  • other internal departments and teams

  • other projects (whether Agile or not)

• Existing company management processes (ISO, Lean, staged milestones, TRLs ...)

• Main factors governing success and failure of the project and the team

• Good practices and evaluation indicators for a project managed well in Agility

• Examples and scenarios

• Self-audit evaluation sheet

Practitioner Training 

For project managers, product owners, research leads, who run the day-to-day development process. Receive the techniques and the toolkit to enable development teams to become self-sufficient in the Agile methodology, in a manner suited to the business.

Duration: 2 days

Day 1 Morning

• Reminder of the basics and improvement of traditional project management and the V cycle

• Discovery of the shortcomings of traditional management in some cases

• Identification of projects or parts of projects requiring Agility

• Risk Management and Prioritization

Day 1 Afternoon

• Introduction to Agility

• Planning by objectives

• Appropriate quality management – fit for need

• Discovery through incremental and iterative progression

Day 2 Morning

• Scrum outside the computer-world

• Constitution and functioning of team

• Agile visual management​

Day 2 Afternoon

• Adopting Agile in your company

• Next steps for putting into practice: suitable company projects

• Relationships with non-Agile projects

• Debrief and discussion on enterprise implementation