ABOUT AGILE COMMUNICATION CERTIFICATION (AgCC)
Most
people understand how critical communication is for implementing
successful projects. Just how important is shown in research
indicating that project communication is the most significant
differentiator for the top 2% of project managers, and a primary
success factor in project performance.
The American Academy of Project Management
(AAPM ®), along with OPPM™ International, and Project Management
Resource Group (PMRG), have teamed to provide the training on, and examinations
for, the Agile Communication Certification, or AgCC.
Communication is Job #1
for Agile, and Job #1 for Project Management. The best selling, award winning
OPPM™ series of books by Clark Campbell published by John Wiley & Sons,
have given over 100,000 users the seriously simple tools to communicate the
essential elements of successful project delivery.
Participants will leave this fast-paced, interactive,
engaging 4 day course with a clear grasp of the critical components of Agile
Project Management. They will be qualified and certified to communicate the
sufficient efficiently, with intuitive, easy-to-use tools. Personal influence
will be accelerated and the probability of project success will be magnified.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
PROJECT MANAGEMENT®
The American
Academy of Project Management ® (AAPM ®)
is a global Board of Standards supporting the Project Management industry
and professionals. Our qualifications are widely recognized through our
network of professionals, which encompasses 145 countries and partnerships
with over 450 Universities, Business Schools and training partners.
In the project management employment world, candidates should
earn or attain extra and unique PM qualifications and credentials
because everybody seems to have the basic project management
certification. Our Global Board of Standards issues Project
Management Certification to qualified professionals who meet
our criteria and standards of:
- Graduate Training or Education or an Accredited Degree
from an IPMC Approved Provider
- Experience and Positions within the Project Management
Industry
- Industry Knowledge in the Project Management area
- Clear Understanding of Ethics and Ethical Roles of
the Project Manager
- Continuing Education — You must strive to complete
annual PM Education Each Year
With liaison offices and training
centers in San Francisco, Monterey, New Orleans, Dubai,
Hong Kong, Kuwait, Singapore, Melbourne, Beijing, the Caribbean,
India and Europe, AAPM is fast becoming the world’s leading
professional association for project management practitioners.
AAPM Executive Designation Programs also provide the assurance
that the holder has met the required criteria for graduate
post-nominal credentials.
 
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By attending this
practical and
informative course, you will:
- Refine your communication competence
- Grasp the essential elements of Agile
Project Management
- Be trained, tested and certified
in Agile Communication and receive the ability to use
the AgCC designation
- Better prepare for your PMI Agile
Certification
- Receive intuitive, easy-to-implement
Agile Project Management tools
- Appreciate the benefits of simple
communication for effective Agile Project Management
- Use the One-Page Project Manager™
(OPPM™) as a key project communication tool
- Successfully determine the level
of Agile principles and practices essential to your
unique projects
- Develop a comprehensive tool kit
for successful Agile Projects that you can use immediately
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ABOUT CLARK
 Clark
Campbell’s best selling and award winning book, The One-Page
Project Manager, published by John Wiley & Sons,
is in its tenth printing. His second book, The One-Page
Project Manager for IT Projects, was released by Wiley
in August 2008, and The One-Page Project Manager for
Execution in 2010. His 4th book tackles Agile Project
Management, delineates the most essential elements and provides
OPPM™ tools for Agile communication.
Clark has advised corporations and taught university graduate
students the power and simplicity of The One-Page Project
Manager™. These include: General Electric, Zimmer, Medtronic,
ARUP Labs, Simon Kutcher Partners, PetroChina, Tasley Pharmaceuticals,
Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Utah
Graduate School of Business, Human Resources Association
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This highly practical certification has been
specifically designed for:
- Project Managers
- Program Managers
- PMO Managers and Directors
- Training and Development Managers
- Operations Directors
- Scrum Masters
- Software developers
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- Business System Analysts
- IT Project Managers
- Executive Directors
- Research and Development Officers
- Team Leaders
- Senior Analysts
- Management Consultants and Other Contractors
- Agile users
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As project managers, your ability
to communicate and manage change are key elements
for on-time, on-budget projects which mitigate risks,
magnify quality and deliver scope that exceeds expectations.
After four days, you will not only grasp the necessary
components of Agile Project Management, but will
augment this understanding with seriously simple
tools and templates. The authors and creators of
the tools that are now easing burdens and delivering
successful results all over the world will teach
the course.
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AgCC DAY
1
The
necessity and power of simplicity for Agile
Project Management and Communication will
include these modules:
- Simplicity — Why and How Much
- Project Management
Simplified
- Agile Simplified
- The Agile Manifesto
— 4 values
— 12 principles
- Job #1 — Communication
— Two exhaustive studies of thousands
of project managers reveal what the
best of
the best do differently
— Why Agile is even more dependent on
communication than traditional project
management
methods.
- The risk continuum between Agile and
Traditional
- Agile methods compared to Waterfall
processes
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AgCC DAY 2
October
10
The
elegance and essence of Agile methodology will
include the following roles, tools, meetings,
and metrics:
- Scrum Teams
- Product Owners
- Scrum Master
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
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- Burndown Chart
- Release Backlog
- Spring Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
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- User Stories
- Story Points
- Business Value
- Team Capacity
- Velocity
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AgCC
DAY
3
October
11
The
One-Page Project Manager™
- Simplicity
and Why OPPM™
— The
Power and Pitfalls of Simplicity
- Simplicity
this side, and the other side of complexity
- Simplexity,
by Jeffrey Kluger
- The Visual
Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward
Tufte
- Ockham’s
razor – the law of succinctness
- The Five Essential Parts of Every
Project
— Objectives — the
what and why
— Owners — the
who
— Tasks — the
how
— Timeline — the
when
— Budget — the
how much
- OPPM™ Building Steps 1 through 12
- OPPM™ Reporting
Steps 1 through 5
- Customizing OPPM™ and the PMO
- OPPM™ for IT Projects
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DAY 4 |
October
12
The
proven practical application of Agile/OPPM™
will include:
- The Agile/OPPM™ Template
- MyOPPM-online
- Negotiation
for Agile Project Managers
- The Agile/OPPM™ for IT
and Non-IT projects
- The Agile/OPPM™ for Managing
Consultants
- Strategy Execution with
Agile/OPPM™
- Communication Best Practices
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| Comments and
Endorsements CLICK
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“Agile/OPPM™ should
be required”
Agile/OPPM™ should
be required for every manager who wants to improve
project performance, accurately tell their story, and
do it efficiently.
Jonathan H. Du, PhD
CEO & Chairman
WiseChina Training Ltd.
Beijing, China
“Agile/OPPM™ has
done it again”
OPPM™ International has done it again – created
another OPPM™ winner! What would it be worth to ensure
all of your projects delivered the expected value?
Agile/OPPM™ is a high-level methodology and tool
to help you achieve this goal.
Dave Berg
Former CIO, Chief Information Officer,
IBM, Unisys, and Sun Microsystems
“Agile/OPPM™ is a remarkable
resource”
Agile/OPPM™ is a remarkable
resource for any business or IT professional who is
designing and implementing Agile IT projects. It is
straightforward and easy to follow. Anyone who is practicing
in the project management field will simply have to
have these tools.
Hossein Bidgoli
Editor-in-Chief
The Handbook of Computer Networks, The Handbook of
Information Security, and The Internet Encyclopedia
“Ineffective project execution
is one of the primary causes of pain”
Ineffective project
execution is one of the primary causes of pain in IT
departments, but over-engineering project management
methodologies too often take on a life of their own.
Agile/OPPM™ techniques offer the optimal balance of
ease-of-use, flexibility and simplicity that are the
hallmarks of a tool that can be used by pragmatic,
action-oriented IT teams. In addition to improving
project execution, managing with these tools will make
status updates and enterprise-wide communication a
snap.
John Baschab
Co-Author
The Executives Guide to Information Technology
“The approach in
the One Page Project Manager™ provides a proven process”
The approach in the One Page Project Manager™ provides a proven process for project management that significantly improves the chances that the project will be completed on time, on budget and on target.
Steven C. Wheelwright, PhD
Baker Foundation Professor
Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publications Activities
Harvard Business School
“Thank you again
for your leadership”
Thank you again for your leadership of the course in Minneapolis this past week. It was a very informative session.
The Communication management session provided very deep perspectives about how to improve a project manager’s key deliverable of communication. This is highly applicable for complex programs/projects of a distributed nature (global projects).
The leadership section was extremely useful; especially, the section pertaining to servant leadership and applying the concept in real-world situations.
Finally, the section on Change, Conflict and had to be one of my favorite areas, as the content presented provided a very structured approach to managing change and conflict resolution. This area is highly applicable, and there are gems I will be able to reapply immediately in our delivery excellence processes.
Nickolas S Schenk, MPM®, PMP®
Microsoft Corporation
“It's intuitive
and there are no bells and whistles and no overkill”
If you've ever needed to manage several projects at
once, you know the dilemma: there has to be a better
way to track the projects quickly, concisely and
reliably, but finding and learning that better way
always seems too tedious, costly, or complicated.
This course solves that problem. We're rolling out
the tool in my firm and we've been impressed with
how easy it is to use and how much useful information
it communicates, even for complex, lengthy projects.
It's intuitive and there are no bells and whistles
and no overkill. Highly recommended.
Frank Luby
Partner, SKP Strategy and Marketing Consultants
Author, Manage for Profit, not for Market Share, Harvard
Business School Press
“This is the most productive
method I've seen”
This is the most productive
method I've seen to capture the essence of project
management. Not too complicated, not too simple. For
those with experience this is certainly a method to
adopt for rapid, vivid, and persistent communication.
I wish I'd had this years ago, but am glad it came
along now. It clearly saves time for an organization's
key resources.
Paul Germeraad, Ph.D.
President of Intellectual Assets, Inc.
Past chairman of the board of the Industrial Research
Institute
Author and Instructor, Caltech
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Agile
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