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read moreCourse Description: This three-day course provides participants with a thorough understanding of the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) programme management methodology, providing the knowledge needed to confidently understand and explain the use of MSP to manage programmes in line with strategic aims of a business and the its day-to-day running. Delivered by fully accredited trainers and industry leading experts who have extensive experience using MSP, the course includes a relevant, modern case study to help delegates understand how to apply the MSP way of managing programmes in the real world. There is also plenty of opportunity for participants to present their exercise results and discuss them with the rest of the class, thus gaining further knowledge from many different points of view, in many different industries. Course Topics: ● MSP Introduction and Overview – What is a programme? What is programme management? MSP Structure ● MSP Framework and Concepts – Principles, governance themes, transformational flow, management strategies and plans. ● VISION – What is a vision’? What makes a good Vision Statement? ● Identifying a Programme – Programme Mandate. Linking to Policy and Strategy. Preparing a Programme Brief. Planning to Define the Program. ● Blueprint Design and Delivery – What is a Blueprint, and what does it contain? Developing a Blueprint from the Vision Statement. ● Defining a Programme – Creating a Programme Definition Document (including the Project Dossier, the Programme Plan and the Programme Business Case). ● Planning and Control – What is a Programme Plan and how is it developed? The Project Dossier. Resourcing and scheduling. ● Benefits Realisation Management – The key driver for the program. How benefits realisation links to achieving strategic objectives. Outcome relationship models and Benefit Maps. Planning for benefits realisation. ● Organisation and the Programme Office – Organisation and leadership. Organisational structure, the key roles and their responsibilities. What is a Programme Office and what service does it provide. ● The Business Case – Developing, managing and reviewing the program’s Business Case. ● Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement – Leadership as opposed to management. How leaders’ actively engage stakeholders. Analysing and engaging with stakeholders. Stakeholder maps and matrices. ● Managing the Tranches – Implementing governance arrangements. Establishing tranches. Managing risks and issues. ● Delivering the Capability and Realising the benefits Co-ordinating and managing projects on the Project Dossier. Starting and closing projects. Maintaining alignment with the program. Ensuring that project outputs are fit for purpose and can be integrated into operations, so that benefits can be realised. Pre-transition, transition and post-transition activities. ● Quality and Assurance Management – Critical Success Factors. The scope of programme quality and assurance management. Quality processes. Configuration Management. Quality Management Strategy and Plan. Information Management Strategy and Plan. ● Risk Management and Issue Resolution- Principles, approach and strategy for managing risks and resolving issues. Managing and controlling changes in programmes. ● Closing a Programme- Formal confirmation of completion. Finalizing programme information. Learning Goals: ● Understand the principles and structure of MSP. ● Understand the benefits of a structured method in a changing environment. ● Explain the MSP process model. ● Understand the MSP themes. ● Draft a Programme brief and Vision Statement. ● Propose a Programme organisation structure. ● Engage with stakeholders at all levels. ● Understand the vision and the blueprint and how they can be applied to the best advantage. ● Apply progress control mechanisms. ● Appreciate the principles of programme level quality and risk management. ● Realize the importance of configuration management Course Agenda: Day 1 ● MSP® Introduction and Overview ● MSP® Framework and Concepts ● Identifying a Programme ● Blueprint Design and Delivery ● Defining a Programme ● Planning and Control Day 2 ● Benefits Realisation Management ● Organisation and the Programme Office ● The Business Case ● Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement ● Managing the Tranches ● Delivering the Capability and Realising the benefits ● Quality and Assurance Management ● Risk Management and Issue Resolution ● Closing a Programme Who can Attend? ● Newly appointed programme managers who may have a background in managing projects, but have not previously operated in a transformational change environment. ● Senior managers who will sponsor the change, or perhaps be held accountable for its success. ● Operational managers charged with embedding the change in their area. ● Operational staff undertaking a role in the programme or related projects. ● Programme office staff (PMO) wishing to build upon their project management knowledge. ● Experienced project managers. ● Those seeking a professional qualification in programme management.
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read moreTicketsMore information and tickets is available here.This 3-day online workshop focuses on solving challenges that organizations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like AWS/GCP, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Linkerd, KNative, Serverless and many others are given during this workshop.Highlights Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice. Join from the convenience of your office or home. Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat and get live clarifications. Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session. Modular structure - you can to skip one or two modules, but still be effective in the rest of the course. Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards. Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later. Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback. Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation. Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun. Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate. Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.AudienceDevelopers, software architects, technical project managers, system administrators.CertificationYou earn eXtreme Automation certificate by attending the course.View example certificateLanguageThe course is taught in English.Trainer Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different life cycle phases of software creation. He is passionate about defining good development practices, documenting and presenting architecture, reuse of code and design patterns, profiling and analysis of application performance as well as extreme automation of development and operations activities.At the moment, Andrey works as a free-lance DevOps consultant offering his expertise in implementing DevOps initiatives, selecting automation tooling, switching to infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure and constructing software delivery pipelines.Andrey is a frequent speaker at international conferences and local communities. He presented at more than 60 events in 19 countries. He is one of the leaders of LatCraft - Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community as well as co-founder and organizer of DevTernity conference.Detailed outlineDay 1 Module 01: introduction to DevOps, infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructure, idempotence principle, delivery pipelines, GitOps Module 02: managing virtual/cloud resources with IaC, tooling overview, building first infrastructure configuration pipeline with Terraform Module 03: managing multi-cloud/multi-data-center resources with Terraform and Terraform modules Module 04: integrating with classic server provisioning tools like Ansible Module 05: dynamic inventories, network management, building complex infrastructure delivery pipelines, organizing team work Module 06: managing base machine images with PackerDay 2 Module 07: introduction to containers and container management Module 08: building/publishing images, running containers with Docker Module 09: implementing complex use cases with Docker Compose Module 10: using Kubernetes to run container workloads Module 11: using Helm charts and Kubernetes operators Module 12: leveraging service mesh features with LinkerdDay 3 Module 13: introduction to observability: logs, metrics, traces Module 14: configuring Prometheus jobs and exporters, creating Grafana data sources and dashboards Module 15: DevSecOps: integrating linters, security policy checkers, vulnerability scanners Module 16: leveraging managed FaaS: KNative and Serverless Module 17: implementing a chat bot for Slack for effective ChatOps Module 18: introduction to chaos engineeringTicketsMore information and tickets is available here.
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