Tired of hearing questions like: "How much time will it take?", "How much money will it cost?", "Why does it take so long?", "How much MORE time you need to complete?" ?
Uncover in one single day necessary Agile metrics, how to visualize them, and the power of
Monte Carlo probabilistic forecasting and how they can help you to build your schedule and budget
without having to spend the valuable team members time and estimate whole backlog again
and again. This interactive advanced workshop includes various Monte Carlo models and exercises
to obtain deep understanding how to produce reliable schedule and costs forecasts in different phases
of your project.
We will also study how to collect, visualize and interpret Agile metrics and supporting charts like Cumulative Flow Diagram, Scatter plot, Histogram to access the
reliability, precision and accuracy of the Monte Carlo forecasts, understand associated risks,
and, finally, where to focus the overall process improvement activities.
You will leave the training with a set of Excel Monte Carlo forecasting templates that you can start using the next day.
Note that the participants are expected (but not required) to have the basic knowledge of Agile and Lean concepts and have some practical experience in Scrum or Lean Kanban. Therefore it's recommended to complete following trainings before attending this course: Kanban System Design (KMP I), Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP), Scrum Master Foundations, or Scrum Product Owner Foundations.
At the end of the class the participants will:
Participants will receive:
Serhiy Tkachenko
Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Serhiy is a hands-on lean Agile transformation trainer and coach with a strong track record in driving and achieving sustained positive changes in the global companies as Philips, TomTom and Intel.
During his professional life Serhiy was holding numerous engineering and management positions and gained broad experience in Lean and Agile transformations, change management, strategy definition and execution, building and managing high-performance multidisciplinary distributed teams, definition and engineering of high scale new software and hardware products, outsourcing to Asia and Eastern Europe, supplier relationship management and intellectual property creation.
Serhiy holds MBA degree from the Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands, Master degree "cum laude" in Applied Mathematics from the Lviv State University, Ukraine and a number of professional certifications: Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Kanban Management Professional (KMP), Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) from the Lean Kanban University, Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt, Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute, Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance, PRINCE2 Foundation from the APM Group. Serhiy is an author or co-author of 19 published patents.
Serhiy fluently speaks English, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian languages and has basic knowledge of German and French languages.
