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BEC1111 - Work Breakdown Structures Facilitation - 6 PDUs - 1 Day | ||
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This course engages and challenges the attendees to explore different project types from alternate industries to understand how work may be broken down. Discussions will include facilitation techniques, documentation techniques, and various frameworks that can be used to breakdown work into manageable pieces.
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BEC1112 - Project Communications Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand identifying stakeholders, planning communications, distributing information, managing stakeholder expectations, and reporting project performance. The attendees will be in exercises to establish effective communications and managing expectation.
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BEC1113 - Project Integration Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the project initiation, the purpose and construct of the project charter, and the development of the project management plan. The attendees will take a deeper look into monitoring and controlling the project, integrating change control measures, directing these measures, and closing the project.
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BEC1114 - Project Cost Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the estimation of cost, quantifying the budget for projects, and controlling those costs. Attendees will be inspecting the different techniques in cost estimation through interactive exercises.
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BEC1115 - Project Human Resources Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the project team composition, developing the project team components, and managing the time-boxes for role specific interaction with the project time line.
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BEC1116 - Project Procurement Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the planning, conducting, and administration of procurement for projects.
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BEC1117 - Project Quality Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the Risk Management Plan, Identifying risks, performing qual and quan risk analysis. Attendees will learn and understand risk monitoring, controlling, and responding to risks.
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BEC1118 - Project Risk Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete and understand the Risk Management Plan, Identifying risks, performing qual and quan risk analysis. Attendees will learn and understand risk monitoring, controlling, and responding to risks.
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BEC1119 - Project Scope Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete the requirements for collecting project requirements, types of requirements, scope definition Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) exercises and techniques. The attendees will be participating in exercises to define the WBS and to verify the scope of a given project. The class will be broken into separate groups to provide additional insights from outside stakeholders representing real-world influence from business partners. Each team will produce changes in efforts to ensure a clear understanding of controlling scope.
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BEC1120 - Project Time Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary to complete the requirements for defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating resources & allocations, estimating activity durations, developing & controlling the project schedule. The students will be producing deliverables to take with them and participating in specific estimation activities resembling real work work and project efforts.
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BEC1121 - Project Initiation & Planning - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course outlines what's necessary for project overview, project initiation, identifying stakeholders and beginning scope definition. The participant will be introduced to the nine knowledge areas and the definition of project management. This course directly aligns with project managers and PMO resources looking to standardize and understand the project charter and the inputs & outputs of integration management and the planning process.
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BEC1122 - Agile Overview - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce the basics of Agile and explain how the management style changes with the conversion to Agile. The course begins with a review of the paradigms associated with Waterfall development and how they contrast with the agile paradigms. The course concludes with a review of the behavioral changes necessary for management to support the Agile Transition.
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BEC1123 - Recruiting Agile & Scrum Professionals - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This class will equip your team with the knowledge needed to effectively assess Agile and Scrum professional. You will learn to speak, in context, with clients regarding agile work with an industry level of understanding.
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BEC1124 - Agile Practices for Business Managers - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to provide Agile training and coaching for managers who need to understand Agile methodologies and how they can be applied to the development of enterprise software applications. The course begins with an examination of the cultural implications of Agile work. The course ends with an examination of management roles in Sprint reviews. This course is intended to give managers additional techniques for managing teams in Agile environments
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BEC1125 - PM: Traditional-to-Agile - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to provide project managers new to Agile with detailed guidance for daily life in an Agile environment. The class starts with a comparison of the % of time spent performing activities and using skill sets in both traditional and agile environments. The course ends with an assessment of the project manager's "toolkit" and generation of a development plan.
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BEC1126 - Agile Facilitation & Coaching - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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This course focuses on transmitting the know-how behind setting up an agile environment that is conducive for overcoming obstacles. The class provides beginning agile leads and ScrumMasters with the techniques required for empowering the team while ensuring that the team focuses on results. The class begins with an explanation of the emphasis that Agile places on facilitation. The course ends with a look at techniques used by Agile Project Managers to perpetuate continuous improvement by the project team.
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BEC1127 - Agile Project Initiation - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to show Project Managers the techniques necessary for initiating an agile project. The course begins with an explanation of atmosphere that needs to be established for a successful agile project. The course ends practicing methods for ensuring clear authorization to work on the project.
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BEC1128 - Agile Project Planning - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce project managers to agile planning. The class begins with a review of the principles behind iterative planning. The class includes examples of effort-based planning techniques, which results in better estimates of schedule durations, easier planning of alternatives based upon resources, better project control especially when contemplating resource adjustments, and better quality projects. The class ends with a lessons learned look at effort-based planning in practicum.
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BEC1129 - Agile Requirements Elicitation - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce business analysts to techniques necessary for obtaining requirements in an agile environment. The class begins with an exercise to baseline the current ability of the students. The class includes descriptions of techniques, which can be used in various situations. The class ends with a practice in eliciting requirements in various situations.
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BEC1130 - Agile Requirements Planning - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to teach students to prepare a requirements management plan. This includes identifying roles and responsibilities of requirements management, agreeing to the requirements management approach, estimating and reporting requirements activity, and dispersing requirement work among the team. The course begins with an introduction to requirement risks. The course ends with an examination of the processes that need to be developed in order to overcome the requirement risks.
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BEC1131 - Agile Requirements Analysis - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce business analysts to techniques necessary for ensuring adequate requirements coverage in an Agile environment. The class begins with an exercise to baseline the current ability of the students. The class includes descriptions of various agile-modeling techniques, which can be used to expose gaps in requirements coverage. The class ends with a practice in identifying missing requirements and planning to alleviate the gaps.
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BEC1132 - Agile Requirements Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to explain the nature of requirements and how they are managed in an agile environment. This includes instilling the ability to be able to differentiate between requirements and design. The class begins with reviewing the definition of a requirement. The class includes techniques for differentiating requirements from design and how to handle user experience items. The class ends with a review of traceability and change management in an agile environment.
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BEC1133 - Agile Project Estimation - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce estimation techniques for the Agile environment. The class begins with a review of the nature of estimation and its characteristics. The class includes examples of the components of an estimates and their proper usage. The class ends with practice in evaluating "Done" of the estimate and how it affects the schedule and cost of a project.
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BEC1134 - Agile Project Scheduling - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce project managers to scheduling within the agile environment. The class begins with a review of the principles of agile planning. The class includes examples of the components of Milestones and their proper usage. The class ends with practice in evaluating "Done" and how it affects the schedule.
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BEC1135 - Agile Risk Identification - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce project teams to the principles of agile risk identification. The course begins with a description of risk. The course includes a comparison of risks to issues, assumptions, and tasks. The course ends with a look at how risks are continuously managed in an agile environment.
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BEC1136 - Agile Risk Management - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to introduce project managers to risk planning and management within the agile environment. The class begins with a review of the risk planning. The class includes a discussion of the separation of risk planning duties for the Project Manager and for the Development Team. The class ends with practice in creating a Risk Management Plan.
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BEC1137 - Intro to Scrum - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to review the basics Agile Scrum practices with the product team and give the team some experience in completing an agile project. The course begins with the history of agile development. The course ends with a review of the specific behaviors expected of an Agile ScrumMaster.
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BEC1138 - Advanced ScrumMaster Skills - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to provide experienced ScrumMasters with additional techniques, which will help the ScrumMaster to propel the team into excellence and faster development. The class begins with a review of the top stumbling blocks that agile teams face. The course runs through agile techniques designed to counter each of the stumbling blocks. The course ends with a practice adapting the Scrum process to different environmental factors. This course is intended to give practical experience to those seeking to expand their agile practices.
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BEC1139 - Defining and Maintaining User Stories - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to present effective techniques for the production, management, and usage of user stories. The class begins with an exercise to practice creating user stories. The class includes descriptions of techniques, which can be used in various situations to maximize user story usage. The class ends with a practice in enhancing user stories throughout the project lifecycle.
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BEC1140 - Agile Practices for Business Managers - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to present effective techniques for the production, management, and usage of use cases in an agile environment. The class begins with an exercise to practice creating use cases. The class includes descriptions of techniques, which can be used in various situations to maximize use case usage. The class ends with a practice in enhancing use cases throughout the project lifecycle.
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BEC1141 - Agile & Scrum Beyond Software - 4 PDUs - 1/2 Day | ||
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The purpose of this course is to review the basics Agile Scrum practices for teams which are not developing software. The course begins with the history of agile development. The course ends with a review of the specific behaviors expected of an Agile ScrumMaster. This course is intended to give practical experience to those seeking the true experience of Agile Project Management. Students are encouraged, to submit a description of a project they wish to use for comparison to an agile project.
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