- Why failures occur and what you can do to minimize the impact and plan for success—including a case study on lessons learned.
- Developing, testing, fine-tuning, and executing deployment plans for success.
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Course Description: Do you want to improve the success of your projects? This class will discuss some lessons learned on making projects more successful. We will discuss things like: • Developing robust test plans, creating effective use and test cases, and implementing test scripts that make sense. -
Course Description: How mature is your PMO? Where do you go from here? This class is a working session, which includes an exercise to assess how far you’ve come and help direct your course. -
Course Description: Some PMO members have started receiving questions about the relevance of the PMO. This session will discuss why the PMO is even more relevant for an organization as it shifts to an Agile mindset. -
Course Description: Does your company have Office 365, but you’re not sure what it can do for you? This session will cover what Office 365 is, including insights into how Office 365 can help your teams work faster and smarter. -
Course Description: In the new bimodal IT environment, does your organization lack insights into what Agile work is being done and what value is being delivered? Learn how Apptio Agile Insights merges data from multiple Agile tools, including Clarity PPM, to bring together a total picture of the value IT is delivering. -
Course Description: Are your project teams using SharePoint effectively and getting the most value out of it? Is document management a daily struggle? Learn how to use SharePoint with Clarity PPM to seamlessly improve collaboration and team productivity. -
Course Description: Have you considered using Rally Software® in conjunction with Clarity PPM? Have you seen or heard about the OOTB connector? This class will go through the OOTB connector in detail and show how Rego has built addons to enhance the connectivity between these two tools. -
Course Description: Are you struggling to implement Agile tools at your organization alongside Clarity PPM? This class will review best practices for implementing Agile tools in conjunction with Clarity PPM while living in a bimodal world. We will discuss how Clarity PPM can govern both types of work and teams and how Agile tools should interface with Clarity PPM. -
Rally Software introduction including high level feature and functionality for Agile and portfolio planning and tracking, analytics and reporting, and overall benefits of Rally in the marketplace along with a product demo. -
PMOs/EPMOs are feeling some pressure from Agile disruptors in their organizations. Some Agile purists insist that they can do everything with an Agile tool and no PMO governance, but this really isn’t the case. If you belong to a PMO or EPMO, this session will help you to better collaborate with your Agile counterparts in finding better and more holistic solutions to value delivery. Tips on how to use Agile principles in your talking points will also be shared. -
It is quite common for Rally and Jira to coexist. However, connecting them effectively enhances the value stream for development teams and product owners. Learn what is available to make this happen along with some typical design patterns. -
Have you considered using Rally in conjunction with Clarity? Have you seen or heard about the OOTB connector? This class will go through the OOTB connector in detail and show how Rego has built our ad-on to enhance the connectivity between these two tools. -
Would you like to get an overview of the fundamentals of Agile? This session will dispel the misconceptions of Agile and provide an understanding and definition of terms such as “bi-modal”, “Scrum”, “Kanban”, “weighted shortest job first” and “SAFe”. We will also talk about how Clarity fits into the Agile discussion and provide thoughts and practices on how PMOs are responding to this trending methodology. -
Agile metrics can be very different from traditional waterfall metrics. This session will walk through some of the key Agile metrics describing how and why they are used. Effective methods in reporting and sharing will also be covered. -
Learn about the various techniques and emerging methods companies are taking to capitalize Agile work. You'll learn how some companies are moving away from timesheets and using models based on story points and team rates to generate capitalization reporting. -
Are you struggling with implementing Agile tools in your organization in addition to Clarity? This class will review best practices for implementing agile tools in conjunction with Clarity - living in a Bi-Modal world. We will discuss how Clarity can be used to govern both types of work and teams and how Agile tools should interface into Clarity. -
Struggling to use an external scheduler like MS Project or Smartsheet with Clarity or investigating its potential? Learn how to effectively use these tools with Clarity in this training, which includes best practices and lessons learned. We will show both OOTB and Rego build connectors that will make the bidirectional connections seamless. -
Are your project teams using SharePoint effectively and getting the most value out of it? Is document management a daily struggle? Learn how to use SharePoint with Clarity in a more seamless way to improve collaboration and team productivity. -
A review of how Northern Trust integrates financial systems with Clarity PPM bilaterally, providing the Finance organization crucial information, and NT Project Managers with a birds-eye view of project financials. Utilizing the Rego Data Extractor and the Rego Data Processor, these information exchanges help Portfolio and Project Managers eliminate their manual and redundant efforts, solidify their overall data accuracy, and dramatically improve the content provided to their Execs for decision-making. -
By its very nature, the shift to Product Funding is going to require that tracking of that funding. Agile tools do not have much, if any, financial capabilities, so it is important to create an eco-system that can support this value stream—from funding, through delivery, and finally to tracking the realization of financial value. Learn how Rally and Clarity PPM do this very well together. -
Are you starting a project/financial management implementation, or do you want to compare how you are using these functions vs. others or best practices? In this class we will discuss some best practices from successful customers. -
Do you want to understand the OOTB configuration and functionality of project management? In this class, we will review the OOTB objects, views, and functions of projects, financial plans, tasks/assignments, IRC, and other related areas. We will cover both classic and new UX highlighting differences. -
Broadcom’s Laureen Knudsen and Noël Rodriguez discuss the current and evolving state of the PMO. -
Agile is here to stay, but waterfall may be as well. Companies around the world struggle with living in a bimodal development world, while trying to go through an agile transformation. This session will discuss best practices and lessons learned within companies that have gone through agile transformations. We will also review SAFe as a potential approach.
