Learn key concepts, terminology and tools available to effectively manage projects. Utilize a step-by-step process designed to help you organize your efforts to work faster and more efficiently. Using case studies, interactive exercises and instructor-led discussions, you will identify your project management knowledge and skills gaps, and then create a self-directed action plan that you can implement after course completion.

This 1-day course in real-world project management is perfect for people who are looking to get projects back on track, find easy-to-use tools that can make an immediate impact, or too busy to learn the fundamentals of project management. If you feel like you’re winging it, running out of time or losing control, you need this one day of training to start managing your projects the RIGHT way!

Whether or not your title is “Business Analyst”, business analysis work is expected from project managers, quality assurance professionals, and pretty much everyone in the organization. It is a complex and broad discipline! This course outlines the critical tasks included in the business analysis profession, along with definitions and examples of the various requirements types. It will also cover key analysis techniques for eliciting, analyzing and presenting requirements.

The practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) allows an agile development team to efficiently convert user defined requirements into a well-designed, fully tested working implementation that not only meets the business need, but will also be easy and safe to extend, maintain and enhance over time. Rather than spending weeks or months on an extended “design phase,” agile teams use TDD to evolve and optimize their design and implementation over time, to meet the team’s evolving understanding of the business requirements.

Project Managers and other professionals are asked to manage small projects every day. Often, an individual is managing several smaller projects at the same time. These projects require a more flexible, less formal approach to project management. Even business analysts, marketing analysts, and software developers are expected to manage their own projects, while also performing much of the project work as a key team member—or the ONLY team member.

Understanding the negotiation process and creating a plan for all negotiations within a project are the keys to your success as a project manager. Learn to manage negotiations within a team environment, bypass critical deadlocks, interpret non-verbal communication, counter dirty tricks and games, and effectively say “no” with this invaluable 2-day class.

This briefing is designed for organizational executives, leaders and managers working to leverage the business analysis profession—with the goal of improving their business. Attendees will learn how other organizations have defined the role of the business analyst, as well as the differences between business analysis and project management activities.

During this course, students will learn to apply the basic practices of any Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum. Participants will apply what you learn in a series of exercises that take you through project start-up, project/release planning, Sprint planning, and Sprint execution.