Effective project management with Agile elements

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This practical training shows how to effectively plan and achieve goals in project work by combining classical and agile approaches, developing skills in goal setting, working in small steps, and building proactivity and team engagement. Participants learn modern management, delegation, building trust and authority, as well as conducting effective communication based on feedback, active listening, and adapting to different personality styles. The workshop also includes practical tools and methodologies (including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall), planning team work in sprints, managing the backlog, monitoring progress, and removing blockers, which translates into better project results and sustainable organizational development.

The training is aimed at managers, team leaders, and individuals responsible for project implementation who want to increase their team's effectiveness and better translate business goals into concrete results. It is suitable for those already working in a project environment as well as those who are just implementing agile approaches in their organization. It will also benefit specialists and experts collaborating in project teams who want to improve communication, work organization, and engagement. The workshop will be particularly valuable for companies and departments undergoing changes, developing a feedback culture, and looking for modern, effective ways to manage people and projects.

The aim of the training is to develop skills in effective planning and execution of project activities through conscious goal setting, selecting appropriate management methods (classical and agile), and utilizing practical tools that support team work. Participants learn how to increase employee engagement and responsibility, build effective communication, and eliminate barriers to action, which translates into more efficient achievement of business results and sustainable improvement of teamwork.

Participation in the training allows participants to increase effectiveness in planning and executing projects, better translate strategic goals into concrete actions, and consciously select work methods (classical and agile) to the specifics of the team and organization. Participants develop communication skills, learn to conduct effective conversations, and build a feedback culture, which translates into greater engagement, responsibility, and self-motivation among employees. They also gain practical tools for organizing work, monitoring progress, and removing blockers, thereby improving project results, enhancing team collaboration, and building a more conscious and modern approach to management.

1. Planning vs. Achieving Goals:

a) Strategy, tactics, goals, tasks - why plan them.
b) Individual goals vs. team goals.
c) Long-term vs. short-term goals, project work.
d) Effective goal setting: The small steps method to move towards positive change, Change ambassadors, Facts vs. opinions, what blocks us from taking action.

2. Proactivity in Practice:

a) Meetings with employees (formal, informal).
b) Employee potential - how to recognize, develop, and utilize it.
c) Generational stereotypes and their impact on company operations - generations BB, X, Y, Z.
d) Conversations with employees - annual, quarterly, monthly, brainstorming vs. constant feedback:
– speed and accuracy of communication,
– impact of conversations on employee engagement,
– impact of conversations on employee development,
– impact of conversations on company atmosphere and culture,
– impact of conversations on company results.

3. Agile Project Team Management:

a) Management and management styles: from directive to participatory, situational management, agile management.
b) Team engagement - how to foster self-motivation.
c) Roles in the project.
d) 5 levels of delegation - from messenger to conscious employee.
e) Informal authority, trust, and their role in effective management.
f) Leadershipment - an effective way to develop people and the company.

4. Communication - the foundation of good project management:

a) Types of communication (verbal and non-verbal).
b) Active listening.
c) Functions of questions and their types.
d) Personality styles and their impact on communication.

5. Project Management Methodologies:

a) Waterfall: PMI, Prince, simplified business.
b) Agile: Agile, Scrum, Speed Release.
c) Effective project work across the company:
– project-based achievement of sales goals,
– how to choose the most effective project approach,
– Kanban and GANT in the project.

6. Team Work Planning:

a) Creating a team checklist.
b) Working with schedules and calendars.
c) Planning actions in stages, creating sprints.
d) Task management systems: JIRA, Trello.

7. KPI’s - key success metrics. Stand-up meetings/calls - agile summaries:

a) Degree of sprint/project completion.
b) Removing blockers in the project.
c) Analyzing interdependencies.
d) Backlog and its role in the project execution process.
e) Status meetings, retrospectives, and planning.
f) Monitoring the effects of change and their sustainability.

16h

The training is conducted by a certified Trainer - Practitioner, participants receive training materials in paper form, access to the platform for 3 months for the selected course, the possibility of a 1:1 session with the Trainer for 500.00 PLN net, training gadgets, and certificates of completion of the workshop.