Agile Working and Project Management

This training serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of process management. It explains various process management methods and their practical applications to streamline workflows and improve service quality. The training covers why process management is essential for businesses and how processes can be mapped to identify and eliminate sources of errors, ensuring continuous improvement. Methods such as the PDCA cycle and the 5⁠-⁠Why technique are introduced. Additionally, the training provides guidance on how teams can clearly assign responsibilities and roles during workshops.

This training provides an overview of common agile techniques. It should serve as a basis for the participants to decide whether and how these techniques can be integrated into their personal daily work. The focus is not on explaining the entire agile methodology, but rather on what you can pick out and implement relatively easily—even in non-agile work. The learning focus is on the application of agile techniques and tips for implementing them. The three themes are: collaboration, communication, and time management.

This course provides an overview of some Agile techniques that can be useful for designing and running meetings and workshops. While the emphasis is not on the entire Agile methodology, you will learn techniques that can be helpful in preparing for a meeting or workshop, execution, and follow-up, as well as tips for implementing what you've learned.

Have you defined your project goals and analyzed the environment of your project in detail? Yes?—Excellent! Then you are ready to move from the planning phase into the implementation phase of your project. As a project manager, your main task is to steer the project along the best possible path towards the project goal. In this e⁠-⁠learning course, you will therefore learn how and with which methods you can successfully manage your project. You will deal with the management of project goals, stakeholders, risk as well as project reporting. Each of these are valuable instruments in project steering.

Do you sometimes have so many ideas for an upcoming task that you skip the planning for the task altogether and get started right away? Often, this “just do it” mentality is not a bad thing, sometimes it’s even the better way to get things done. In classic project management, however, it is the opposite. Here, planning is key to the success of the project! In this e⁠-⁠training course, you will learn about the success factors of planning in project management. You will learn which projects can be managed using traditional techniques and how important it is to clearly allocate roles to make the project successful. Furthermore, the course highlights the most important planning document(s) for managing a project. You will learn how to define milestones and thus give structure to project planning and the project phases. The course content ends with tips for how to use the kick-off meeting to transition from planning to implementation.

Learn the basics of agile project management. At first glance, agile project management is compared to traditional "waterfall" project management, with the essential differences clearly illustrated using accompanying videos. Fundamental concepts of agile project management such as the Iterative and Incremental Approach are discussed, in addition to agile values and principles. The course concludes with a high-level overview of the process of an agile project.

The world of work is changing. Globalization and digitalization mean that old work and management strategies no longer suffice. This e⁠-⁠training course highlights the agile mindset and how it differs from the classic control mindset. Furthermore, Carol Dweck's growth mindset and fixed mindset concepts are explored to emphasize the importance of adaptability and innovation. Participants will learn how outdated mindsets pose risks in a dynamic business world and how an agile mindset enables rapid response to market developments. The course introduces the nine agile values—trust, focus, openness, courage, communication, respect, feedback, commitment, simplicity—and provides strategies for developing and maintaining an agile mindset.

The Kanban Board is more than a planning tool. First, learn about the Board's development in the Japanese automotive industry, and get to know the "flow idea" behind Kanban. This will enable you to use the method more creatively and purposefully. Also included you will find a case study from the manufacturing industry that helps to apply Kanban to real life. Learn about the different ways to use a Kanban board and the most important elements such as "Work in Progress Limits" and the "Pull Principle".

Learn about the background and development of Scrum as described by Jeff Sutherland in his book "The Scrum Revolution" where Sutherland references the Toyota Principle and the Plan-Do-Check-Act Method. Additionally, get to know the basics of Scrum such as working in teams, focused work, and the division into product owner, scrum master and team. Finally, learn what the organization of a project looks like, according to scrum.

These values highlight the significance of individuals and interactions, achieving meaningful outcomes, fostering close collaboration with customers, and embracing flexibility in the face of change. The emphasis is on effective communication to consistently deliver valuable results.

In project management, it is important to identify and assess risks at an early stage. This micro shows how this works and when countermeasures are necessary.

The readiness and capacity for ongoing personal and professional growth in the dynamic VUCA world enable individuals to not only keep up with change but also thrive from it.

This micro focuses on the characteristics of a project, specifically how to clearly distinguish a project from a task and plan accordingly.

Four success factors contribute significantly to the success of a project. This micro focuses on clear responsibilities, project assignment, kick-off, and the planning phase.

Employees set themselves a learning goal and share their knowledge in a group of people with similar challenges. This exchange enables them to support and develop each other.

Having the ability to work agilely is a crucial skill in the era of globalization and digitalization. Here, you'll find a brief introduction to the topic of agility!

Stand-up meetings are a common tool used in agile work to monitor the team's tasks and progress.

Scrum teams consist of a product owner, a development team and a scrum master. Agile teams are successful with the help of this clear distribution of tasks.

Agile tools can significantly facilitate and structure everyday work. With helpful companions like the product backlog, the sprint backlog and the increment, you can navigate confidently through any agile project.

Scrum board, sprint, retrospective, review, product backlog... With this micro you will become an expert in scrum.

You can achieve a continuous improvement process with the PDCA cycle. Learn how you and your team can unleash new potential with Plan-Do-Check-Act!

Want to save time and money in your production and administrative processes? Here we show you how to use TIMWOOD to search for possible resource hogs.

Line balancing literally balances your production line. Here you will learn how to use it to align the times of all workstations in the process with the customer cycle to be achieved.

Make processes and responsibilities transparent with Kanban. Learn how to use it to visualize your team's workflow.

Brainstorming is widely used and can be an enjoyable experience. However, the rules of this method are not always implemented correctly. Learn how your team can brainstorm successfully and generate good ideas!

Common rules and values create a good basis for harmonious and effective teamwork. To develop them, a team culture workshop is suitable.

This micro focuses on the nine agile values and their meaning. This makes it easier to get started with agile thinking and working.

To develop new ideas and look at them directly from different perspectives, the Walt Disney Method is a good choice. In this micro, get to know these three roles: the dreamer, the realist and the skeptic - in more detail.

By creating personas, you give (potential) customers a face and can thus better put yourself in their shoes.

In retrospective meetings, team members look back over the past few weeks to discuss what is working well and where there is room for improvement.