Masterclass contents
Day 1
The project manager as an influencer and an architect,
Being goal-oriented, flexible and communicative,
Agile and traditional principles, Mindset
- The power of action
- Your Agile inspirator, the TomTom
- Model of a project
- The V-model
- The product creation process
- The Scrum process
- The project preparation phase
- The 10% confrontation rule
Day 2
The factor 10, Stakeholder Management,
Leadership and behaviour, Design for X
- The factor 10
- Stakeholder management
- The project organization
- Personal leadership
- Daniel Offman’s core quadrants,
- Stephen Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people
- Situational leadership
- Robert Quinn’s competing values framework
- Blake & Mouton’s managerial grid model
- Situational leadership according to Hersey & Blanchard
- Involvement and Motivation
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- McGregor’s X- and Y-theory
- Herzberg’s satisfiers and dissatisfiers
- Decy & Ryan’s self-determination theory
- Teamwork
- Tuckman’s stages of group development
- Belbin’s team roles
- Dealing with resistance
- 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
- Final result and scope
- Strategy, phasing, Agile iterations
- Make or buy, subcontract management
- Project decomposition
- The product breakdown structure
- The Scrum product backlog
- Integrating Design for X and the critical parameter into your plan
- The work breakdown structure
- 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
- Planning tips & tricks (for planning tools)
- Heartbeat
- The blind check
- PDCA in practice
- Communication and reporting
- Change management