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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
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Agile Boot Camp for Project Managers NEW

In today’s world, multiple project management approaches abound― traditional waterfall, agile using Scrum, and the methodology of the PMBOK® Guide, to name a few. Cutting through the confusion, Ken Whitaker discusses key topics including avoiding the six deadly project statistics, applying the Decision Pyramid to project decision making, casting off traditional project management techniques to become truly agile, how agile really works and how agile can fail, collaborating with product management to prioritize what’s really important for the customer, and applying three innovative techniques to improve your team’s delivery effectiveness with better focus to achieve project flow. Learn which PMBOK® Guide processes can be used to benefit running your agile projects. Join Ken to discuss case studies and example projects so that you can put what you learn into immediate action.

Ken Whitaker, Leading Software Maniacs

Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs® has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a various roles and industries. He has led commercial software teams at Software Publishing (remember Harvard Graphics?), Data General, embedded systems software companies, and enterprise software suppliers. Ken is an active PMI® registered education provider, Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

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