Masterclass contents

Day 1

The project manager as an influencer and an architect,
Being goal-oriented, flexible and communicative,
Agile and traditional principles, Mindset

• Introduction and individual learning objectives
• The power of action
• Your Agile inspirator, the TomTom
• Model of a project
• The V-model
• The product creation process
• The Scrum process
• The 10% confrontation rule

Day 2

Project organization, manage yourself, your team and your environment

• Stakeholder management
• The project organization
• Personal leadership
• Stephen Covey’s 7 habits of highly effective people 
• Situational leadership according to Hersey & Blanchard
• Involvement, Motivation and Teamwork
• The critical parameter and Design for X

Day 3

Making a plan as a thinker and a doer,
blending system engineering and project management

• The ten stages of the planning process in agile and traditional projects
• Understaining the difference between “understanding project size” and “directing project execution”
• Project decomposition
• Integration with systems engineering
• Workshop “Breaking up into smaller pieces until you understand“
• Workhop “early confrontation and Design for X”
• Size & effort estimation
  • The Delphi method
  • Scrum Planning Poker
  • Three-points technique
• The psychology of estimation and execution
  • Goldratt’s Theory of constraints
  • How Scrum helps with self-organization
• Timeline, allocation of people and resources
• Sketch with the team and the project management plan

Day 4

Project execution in practice,
how heartbeat brings progress, learning, discipline, cooperation and peace of mind

• Size & effort estimation
• The psychology of estimation and execution
• From (multidisciplinary) breakdown to time schedule
• Taking the lead in planning and reporting
• Planning tips & tricks (for planning tools)
• Heartbeat and the blind check
• PDCA in practice (combined with risk management and change management)
• Summary “whole training on one A4 page”