PM Insight Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting - Rethinking Risk with Agile Project Management
PM Insight-Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting:
Rethinking Risk with Agile Project Management
This presentation sheds light on how uncertainty and risk can be effectively managed through agile project management. It explores three perspectives that highlight different aspects of agile's ability to address uncertainty and mitigate risk. Firstly, Agile is presented as a resilient framework that reduces risk by prioritizing incremental deliveries, ensuring faster value delivery, and managing stakeholders through regular feedback loops. Secondly, the utilization of product discovery techniques is emphasized, enabling early risk identification, fostering a culture of learning, and actively reducing uncertainty. Lastly, Agile's risk management approach revolves around empowered teams that actively explore, test, and learn, enabling decisions to be made closer to delivery and the customer, thus minimizing risk and uncertainty. Each perspective highlights the importance of learning, testing, and adaptation, enabling teams to effectively navigate engineering constraints and lead times.
By embracing agile methodologies, organizations can better respond to uncertainty and manage risk by prioritizing incremental value delivery, employing product discovery techniques, and empowering teams to explore and learn. This presentation encourages a shift towards a more adaptable and resilient approach, where long-term plans are continuously adapted based on real-time feedback, reducing uncertainty and ensuring successful project outcomes.
Takeaways:
- Understanding the drivers of risk and uncertainty
- Learn how engineering constraints impact strategies when using Agile techniques
- Understand the basic Agile approach being a resilient framework
- Learn the modern Product Management approach to shift left on opportunity assessment
- Learn the advanced Lean techniques to shift right on engineering design
About the Instructor:
John Johnson
John Johnson serves as the Professional Programs Manager at the University of Maryland, College Park, Project Management Center for Excellence. He leads the initiatives that help grow the Project Management Center for Excellence across its three pillars: Academic Excellence, Outreach and Professional Development, and Research. He is primarily responsible for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program, which currently is educating over 450,000 enrolled learners across the world. Mr. Johnson also teaches graduate courses on Agile and Predictive management at the University of Maryland’s Project Management Program. In partnership with the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, Mr. Johnson is co-leading the new Masters of Professional Studies in Product Management (MPPM), building on his years as a CTO, Startup Co-Founder, and Senior Agile Project Manager.
Meeting Leader: Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $5.00
Non-Members: $5.00
Students & Veterans: Free (Please contact Meeting Leader for the discount code)
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last-minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
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