Virtual Hands-on Agile Workshop: Building Products as a Member of an Agile Team | 2 half-days: Sat & Sun

Virtual Hands-on Agile Workshop: Building Products as a Member of an Agile Team (no pre-requisite, 2 half-days over a weekend, on Zoom)

As a Project Manager, Business Analyst or Team Member, do you want to learn more about Agile, but don’t yet have much hands-on experience?

We invite you to join us for this workshop, where you will gain hands-on experience building a product as a member of an Agile team, as well as leading and participating in Agile ceremonies.

If you do not have formal Agile training, do not worry, we will cover the basics. If you do have formal Agile training, these workshops will help you put into practice what you have learned!

We invite all of the following participants to attend this workshop and experience the learning by practicing Agile:

• Project Managers and Team Members interested in Agile but with little hands-on experience

• Anyone interested in Agile ways of working and would like hands-on experience

• Agile practitioners who would like to participate in a collaborative workshop and share their knowledge and experience

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Learning Outcomes 

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Explain the Agile lifecycle and ceremonies;
2. Explain User Stories and how they can be used to define a product;
3. Explain how to set up an Agile board and how it can be maintained in Jira;
4. Create a simple digital product using Miro over multiple sprints.
   

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Questions?

Please reach out to Man Wai Lew. 

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Presentation and Discussion Method: 

• This virtual workshop will be hands-on, working in teams in breakout rooms;
• We will go into Zoom breakout rooms, so please ensure that you have INSTALLED Zoom on your computer and login via the app, not through web browser. You can download the Zoom application here: https://zoom.us/download
• This session will also use Miro board, which you are recommended to access with Google Chrome browser;
• Participating from a mobile device is not recommended because you might need to use a keyboard;
• Make sure you have a stable internet connection.
  

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About the Presenters:

Andrew Coates Enterprise Agile Coach Wavestone (LinkedIn)	Andrew Coates has extensive traditional and Agile delivery experience, a total of over 22 years in the industry. He has delivered hands-on roles in the Supply Chain, Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and the Entertainment sectors, spanning Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This breath of experience enables him to build strong rapport with stakeholders who are moving from traditional to Agile ways of working. Certified on major frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as scaling frameworks such as SAFe and Disciplined Agile, Andrew is able to combine methodologies, tools and techniques to design a target operating model best suited for the organizational needs.
Daowen Chang Innovation Coach Wavestone (LinkedIn)	Daowen Chang is an experienced Innovation Consultant, Agile Coach, Facilitator and Trainer with over 18 years practical experience in multiple industries. She helps organizations build vision, strategies, develop Agile Innovation culture and support the digital transformation journey. Daowen is also an Experience Strategy and Service Innovation guest lecturer at the Institute for China Business of Hong Kong University.
Ravi Agarwal Agile Project Leadership OCBC Bank (LinkedIn)	As a VP of Technology at OCBC Bank, Ravi Agarwal is a pioneer and thought leader of the Agile mindset. He has outstanding knowledge of the software development business, having led engineering teams of several hundred, and executed projects using agile and traditional methods with multi-million-dollar budgets. Ravi has a lifelong passion for technology but prioritizes the individual and their humanity as the primary source of transformation. He has previously held senior software engineering management roles in major global banks such as Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, and Standard Chartered Bank.
Chow Lye Fong Scrum Master Lead OCBC Bank (LinkedIn)	Chow Lye Fong has over 19 years' experience in the IT industry handling project delivery and management on both traditional and Agile methodologies. She prides herself in her experience playing different roles throughout the delivery chain including being a developer, architect, business analyst, project manager, scrum master and Agile coach. The experience she has gained allows her to easily comprehend the different priorities and coach teams towards a common goal and drive forward. Lye Fong is currently the Scrum Master lead and coach for a digital transformation platform running regionally with 18 Scrum teams across different countries.
Kevin Chua Project Manager (LinkedIn)	Kevin Chua has over 5 years of project management experience across various industries including telecommunications, material testing, air-conditioning and currently IT. A believer of lifelong learning, he has cultivated a mindset of continuous self-improvement which he applies to himself as well as the teams he manages. Using a hybrid of various tools, techniques, events from various frameworks, he balances the management of operational support, application development and most importantly, people management.
Jonathan Lee Business Development Manager Symphony (LinkedIn)	Jonathan Lee is a Business Development Manager in a Fintech unicorn, partnering with financial institutions in their digital transformation strategies in the areas of sales and trading, investment banking, asset servicing and wealth management. Jonathan helps enable teams to leverage the power of bots and API integrations, helping enterprises to streamline and automate workflows internally and externally while maintaining data security and regulatory compliance.

 

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Event Particulars:

Participation is required in both days (two weekend mornings):

Day 1:  Saturday, 14 October 2023: 9am - 1pm SGT

Day 2:  Sunday, 15 October 2023: 9am - 1pm SGT

Pre-Work - will be sent by email a few days before the workshop / later for those who sign up after that.

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Venue: Virtual video via ZOOM with team breakout rooms and collaboration on MIRO 

PDUs: 7 = 5 Ways of Working + 1 Business Acumen + 1 Power Skills (where applicable, PMI ID to be included with registration)

Access Details: Will be included in your sign-up confirmation email. Please reach out to Man Wai Lew in case of issues.

FULL - WELCOME TO JOIN THE WAITING LIST AS WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SLOT YOU IN - Roster will close when we reach the strictly limited capacity (or at 6 pm on Thu, 5 Jan 2023)

• Everyone is welcome to join and we encourage you to become our Chapter Member to access the best discount and priority registration: CLICK HERE
• If you just joined the Chapter, you can contact Jonathan Lee so he activates your user ahead of a regular scheduled synch with PMI Global.

PMI Singapore Chapter members: please log in to benefit from member rate. If you're new to the Chapter, it takes a day to synch with the global database. Please contact Jonathan Lee with a screenshot of your PMI Dashboard / chapter membership payment confirmation to activate your user login ahead of time if need be - especially when it is time sensitive.
>> If you'd like to become our chapter member for best discount, you can do so here. Chapter Membership is around 60 SGD as add on to your PMI global membership and workshop discount is more than double that. 

Non-Chapter PMI Members and NTUC Members: Please tick your discount accordingly on the registration page. For NTUC members, kindly respond to the registration confirmation email with a photo or screenshot of your membership/card for verification. Please note, we may need to charge the public rate if membership can't be confirmed. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimers: Registration is final, non-refundable, but transferrable. By registering to this event, you give permission to PMI Singapore Chapter to contact you with details of how to participate in this event. You will also be included in future communications from PMI Singapore Chapter.

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