LitheSpeed : Launching an Agile Project with Lean Six Sigma Accuracy

Agile Project Lean Kickoff
2 day workshop to launch your project
Request a private workshop today to get your critical projects flying in the right direction.

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

Product and Line Managers, Project Managers, Developers, Testers, Business Analysts; and anyone interested in learning how to launch an Agile project using Lean Six Sigma tools to focus and quantify project value.

Bonus Offerings:

16 PDUs toward PMI certification
Managing Agile Projects book
1 hour of complimentary consulting

Course Overview

Are you having difficulty quantifying the value proposition of your Agile projects? Do they sometimes seem disconnected from the business objectives and processes they're meant to support? Does change seem chaotic and undirected?

This two-day interactive workshop is designed to help you launch Agile projects in a rapid and reliable fashion. It blends techniques from Lean and Six Sigma process management with tools of Agile Project Management to help focus projects, align them with the organizational environment and clearly quantify their value.

This workshop is taught by active Agile and Lean Six Sigma practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small business to the Fortune 100. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught.

Agenda

Day 1 - Setting the Stage

Introduction to Lean and Agile
Project Approach Calibration Tools
Process Discovery
- Supplier to Customer (SIPOC) Diagram
- Process Value Stream Map
- Critical Requirements (CTQ) Diagram
Process Improvement
- Ideal State Mapping
- Waste Identification
- Future State Mapping
Product Backlog Generation
- Current to Future State Gap Analysis
- User Role Generation
- User Story Generation
- Estimation
- Prioritization

Day 2 - Preparing for Launch

Project Discovery
- Sponsor Vision
- O3/Scope-Objectives
- Product Backlog Generation (Role Modeling, Backlog Item Generation, Affinity Clustering, Estimation, Set Releases)
- Iteration One Sprint Planning
Team Discovery
- Team Norms
- Iteration Structure
- Core Hours
- Team Structure (Core/Extended)
- Stakeholder/Project Interactions

Cost:

$1550 per attendee. Attendees receive a copy of Sanjiv Augustine's book Managing Agile Projects, a printed certificate and an hour of complimentary consulting help.

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