Scrum, Leadership & Complexity: Your PMP® booster with PDUs

Day 1 - Agile project management (Ways of Working)

Agile project management is easy to understand, but not always easy to implement. Especially when classic, process-based project management has been established in the company for years. What about self-organizing teams, the lack of a traditional project management role and other challenges?

Basics, framework conditions and prerequisites for agile PM

• Advantages and challenges of an agile approach at a glance.

Team as a key factor

• Necessary framework conditions for agile teams.
• Responsibility, collaboration, commitment and communication in an agile team.

Get to know and experience Scrum holistically

• Scrum as an iterative approach with rules, values and principles.
• Three artifacts - four events - three roles!

Day 2 - Leadership in classic and agile projects (Power Skills)

What impact does the methodical approach to projects have on the topic of leadership (classic project management or agile approach)? Does a self-organized team need leadership - and if so, what kind?

Leadership at a glance - classic and agile

• Traditional leadership versus agile leadership.
• Changed leadership behavior in agile organizations.
• Maturity model by Hersey/Blanchard - "situational leadership".

Shaping cooperation

• "Team authority" in an agile environment.
• Promoting cooperation within the team.
• Communication as the most important tool.

Constructively resolve conflict situations in the project team

• Characteristic features, escalation dynamics and ways of dealing with a conflict.

Day 3 - Reduce complexity and solve problems better (Business Acumen)

Many projects are increasingly characterized by high complexity: What strategic solution alternatives are there, how can you deal with complexity with confidence?
Dealing with complexity

• What characterizes complexity - and what is a problem at all?
• Areas of tension in today's companies.

Steps of the holistic problem-solving methodology

• Identify problems, understand connections and areas of tension in the problem situation.
• Develop design and control options.
• Assess, implement and anchor possible solutions to problems.

Presenting and practicing further methods for problem solving