Calendar of Events

PMP Certification Prep - Spring 2022

Should the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) be in your future?

Every company is an IT company whether they know it or not. These organizations need servant-leaders to guide them and their teams through a pragmatic approach to pick their ways of working from inception to consumable solutions and beyond. As 21st-century project practitioners, we need a new fresh set of tools that create a space for our teams and their organization to choose their best ways of working. The Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit is just in time. As the second certification through the DA body of knowledge, the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master training equips you to guide teams through complex initiatives. It’s a fantastic map of goals and choices a team can take through all their phases of inception to support all packed under-fit for our digital age-principles, promises, and guidelines. This session will cover the DASSM content at a 10,000-foot view, over a couple of exercises, and help you determine if DASSM is your next path to continuous improvement. Learning Objectives Become aware of the principles, agile phases, lifecycle, roles, process blades,and goals. Be equipped to understand if this is your next certification. Learn how DASSM is used in real-world applications.

Strategy Realization through Objectives, Key Results, Connected Work

Topic: Strategy Realization through Objectives and Key Results and Connected Work Overview: At Planview, we recently embarked on a traditional 3–5 year strategic planning exercise with one critical new ingredient. We made connecting our strategic plans to our work and aligning our teams and value streams to our strategic outcomes a key element of our approach. The journey hasn’t been easy, requiring culture change, strong lean-agile leadership, and sophisticated tooling, but we have had tremendous initial success and are now executing to our strategic plan with full visibility, alignment, and adaptability along the way. Join Steve Wolfe, Enterprise Agile Coach at Planview, and Ronnie Pinkerton, Director of Solution Architecture as they share some of their biggest learnings which can apply to any enterprise company This session will help guide Agile coaches, Agile Delivery Leaders, Agile Transformation Leaders, VPs of App Dev/Software Delivery in how to incorporate effective strategic planning muscle into their organization. It will cover the topic of change, Agile leadership, culture shifts and how to utilize enterprise tooling to manage a transformation. Steve and Ronnie will showcase a working OKR model, Strategic planning tools, cadences and sample agendas to help leaders visualize and understand a change construct. Learning Objectives / Key Takeaways: How to effectively engage executive leadership not only in the creation of a strategic plan but also in the ongoing prioritization and steering of the work How to apply a robust Objective and Key Result framework across an agile business, from the portfolio to values streams and teams. How to incorporate a Lean Enterprise Initiative Planning muscle into your strategic planning cadence An effective implementation for enterprise tooling across value streams, aligning to OKRs- shifting the mindset of our teams from their work to the outcomes they are driving to produce