Are you looking for a competitive edge as PMP® ?
Curious if Agile Project Management might be the ticket?

Take two days to immerse yourself in Agile, Lean, and Scrum. Find out how your PMP® certification and the PMBOK ® Guide aligns with state-of-the-art Agile principles and practices to position yourself for the demands of the Conceptual Age.  We’ll take an encompassing look at Agile approaches and learn how it influences modern Project Portfolio Management, Product Management, Project Management, and Engineering practices placing Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), DSDM, and many other Agile approaches in context. Then, we take an pragmatic approach of ‘Going Agile’ based on Real World experiences.

Today’s business world requires efficient, streamlined project management, placing a premium on innovation, creativity, teamwork, and flexibility. Agile Project Management, with emphasis on Scrum, is gaining worldwide acceptance by companies small and large as the answer to contemporary demands and challenges. We will focus on Agile Project Management and you’ll develop a deep understanding of the principles, practices, and applications of this dynamic approach, and learn how to implement this philosophy into your workplace to foster a more vibrant, productive environment. You’ll also learn how Agile expertise and certifications will make you more valuable to your team and organization while opening up new career opportunities.
This course is based on actual experiences of bringing Agility to high-tech product and systems development companies. Expect a hands-on and pragmatic learning experience. Don't miss this event. This will be a focused, educational, practical, and common sense educational event for Agile adopters and PMP®s interested in learning more about Agile and Scrum.

Learning Objectives:
To facilitate learning, the course consists of four, well-designed, manageable sessions, each devised with targeted information and objectives. You’ll benefit from observing numerous real-world examples of the Agile approach in action, allowing you to clearly see how it helps companies elevate their performance in practice, and not just theory.

(1) Introduction to Agile
Objective: To provide a pragmatic overview of Agile principles, practices, and methodologies.
Key Lessons:
What is Agile?
What are its philosophies, values, and attributes?
What sort of challenges can it resolve?
How can Agile produce products faster, cheaper, and better?
Who uses it and how? Does it work? Case-studies? 

(2) Agile Project Management with Scrum
Objective: To develop a thorough understanding of this lightweight project management framework, recognize its potential, identify its uses, and experience the difference it makes through actual projects.
Key Lessons:
What is Scrum?
What does a Scrum project life-cycle look like?
How do you scale Scrum?
How do you manage a project using Scrum?
How do I plan & estimate with Scrum?

(3) PMBOK ® Guide and Agile Project Management
Objective: To explore the correlation between Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK ® Guide and Agile methodologies.
Key Lessons:
Is the PMBOK ® Guide and Scrum compatible?
How does the PMBOK ® Guide support Agile methodologies?
How do Waterfall and Scrum life-cycles compare?
Pragmatic implementation of PMBOK ® Guide processes in Traditional and Agile approaches.

(4) The Agile PMP®
Objective: To explore how a certified PMP® can be more valuable to his team and organization by adding Agile knowledge to his/her tool-box.
Key Lessons:
How can PMP®,  PMBOK ® Guide, and Agility be combined to super-charge my career?
What roles and responsibilities can a PMP® pursue in an Agile environment?
What needs exist in the market for a PMP® with Agile expertise?
How can you apply these principles to your job?
How can you be more valuable to your company and advance your career by knowing Agile?
What sort of new career paths may open for you by knowing Agile?

Instructor:  Karlheinz Muenchow, PMP, CSPO, CSM, Dipl.-Ing.(FH)
Instructor Bio:
As an Agile Coach, Karlheinz Muenchow helps companies reach their productivity potential by developing and implementing practical applications of Agile Product Development that increase productivity and quality, reduce cycle times, and fosters an environment to create, innovate, and lead.

Karl is guiding large-scale Agile Product Development adoptions and focuses on applying Agile to all domains in the value chain such as software, hardware, firmware, embedded software, supply-chain, deployment, and business domains that often require the complex coupling of Agile with Stage-Gate processes.

Besides holding a Diploma Engineering Degree from the University of Reutlingen, Germany, Karl is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Project Management Professional (PMP®). He belongs to the Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, Project Management Institute (PMI®), and actively contributes to Agile organizations in the United States and Europe. Karl can be reached at Karl.Muenchow@XoJom.com.

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Earn:  16 PDUs

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Dates:  February 26 & 27, 2010 (Friday & Saturday)
Time:  8:30am - 5:30pm

Location:  Atlanta Marriott Century Center,  2000 Century Blvd,  Atlanta, GA 30345  (www.atlantamarriottcenturycenter.com)

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Registration Fee:
     $450 - PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate)
     $600 - Non-Member (standard rate)

To register click here!

For information on the event, please contact VP of Certification & Education by email at certed@PMIatlanta.org.