Available custom training modules

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Function of goal setting
• Setting up appropriate learning environment and PM foundations
• Essential skills for immediate impact (writing/editing/listening/process review)
• Why and how digital is different
• Core vocabulary

Outcomes

• Knowledge and skills assessment
• Anticipated reading/professional development schedule (organized by apprentices)

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Documenting key metrics at the organizational level
• How to set personal and organizational goals and KPIs
• The role of the project management coordinator
• Variability of roles and titles on your team
• Core vocabulary

Outcomes

• Personal goals & KPIs
• Documented organizational metrics and goals
• A supportive ally within your org

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Exploring the project vetting (and sales) cycle in client services
• Evaluating client success and project fit
• Identifying red flags in incoming projects
• How to setup successful transition meetings
• Tiny Bio brief and sales assessment simulation

Outcomes

• Documenting your org’s sales or vetting cycle
• A work in progress ‘client alignment matrix’ for active clients in your org
• Practice managing tough conversations during the sales process

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Setting the pace and tone of projects
• How to onboard internal and external stakeholders successfully
• How to minimize pitfalls in the transition between project ideation and official start
• Project team roles and functions
• Eleven team characteristics simulation assessment

Outcomes

• Stakeholder onboarding checklist
• Initial welcome email to new project stakeholders

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Roles of internal and external stakeholders
• Communication styles
• Identification and management of team risk
• The pillars of project management
• Tiny Bio stakeholder buy-in and alignment simulation

Outcomes

• RACI matrix
• Empathy map
• Developing your project management persona
• Simulation: scripts to deal with tough Tiny Bio personalities

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How limiting beliefs impact your project management approach and how to challenge them
• How to cultivate emotional intelligence and empathy for project stakeholders
• How to prioritize and manage tough conversations
• How to build a stronger, more unified team

Outcomes

• Limiting beliefs workshop
• A plan to handle tough conversations with Tiny Bio stakeholders

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The implementation process for a successful discovery phase (and its related value)
• How to run a great project kickoff
• The role and function of research and how to support it
• The key to writing a solid communication plan

Outcomes

• Discovery checklist
• Completing a communication plan
• Documenting project assumptions

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The process of planning, facilitating and implementing useful meetings
• How to foster healthy and meaningful retrospectives
• How to make space and build in team check-ins
• Useful tips for managing project updates and reviews

Outcomes

• Refinements to current meeting and retrospective processes
• Scripts for handling difficult meeting participants

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The function, format, and purpose of project plans
• How lean documentation can support project scope
• The role and application of Statement of Work documents
• Common pitfalls to avoid in documentation

Outcomes

• Presentation of Tiny Bio project plan
• Project plan refinements at your organization

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How organizations make and spend money (allocations, revenue, cash flow)
• How revenue and expenses cycles affect forecasting
• How project leads can support smoother cash flow
• How project health impacts company health
• How to set appropriate rates and budgets for internal and client-facing organizations

Outcomes

• Rate card calculations for your organization
• Setting Eleven’s target rates during simulation

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The importance and function of scope
• How to scope projects using different approaches
• How to avoid the pitfalls of scoping

Outcomes

• Scoping exercise: Renovate your kitchen
• Tiny Bio scoping simulation
• Choosing project plan format

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The true meaning of value for our stakeholder audiences
• How to prioritize impact vs effort
• How to prioritize importance vs urgency
• Tweaking personal and team productivity
• The role and function of Minimum Valuable Products

Outcomes

• Setting a weekly team schedule
• Prioritizing projects within your organization
• Prioritizing Tiny Bio’s Minimum Valuable Product

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to identify and classify various types of scope creep
• How to triage and treat scope creep
• How to turn scope creep into future phases and better stakeholder relationships
• Ways to reduce and prevent harmful scope creep

Outcomes

• Practical scripts for dealing with scope creep
• Scope creep reduction plan for your organization

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Waterfall methodology: what it’s for, when to use it, what to watch out for
• Lean approach: what it’s for, how to use it best, when to be less Lean
• Common pitfalls of Waterfall and Lean and how to avoid them

Outcomes

• Evaluate and refine your organization’s approach to projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Epics, user stories, sprints, and positioning in Agile
• How and when to blend the best of Waterfall and Agile into Agifall
• How to limit works in progress with Kanban
• How to avoid common pitfalls in Agile, Agifall, and Kanban

Outcomes

• Refined user stories for Tiny Bio’s projects
• Rewrite tasks for your organization’s projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The similarities and differences between estimating techniques like Monte Carlo, PERT, Rolling Wave, Double-Blind, and Three-Point estimating techniques
• How to estimate project scope using multiple techniques including planning poker
• How to avoid the pitfalls of poor estimation

Outcomes

• Planning poker practice
• Double-blind estimates for Tiny Bio projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to recognize red flags that indicate probable risk
• Identifying and analyzing positive and negative risk
• How to create a system for red flag assessment and treatment
• How to avoid common red flags with internal and external stakeholders
• Scripts for handling tough red flags
• How red flags impact project estimates

Outcomes

• Design non-negotiable red flag criteria for your organization
• Create a risk assessment and mitigation strategy for Tiny Bio’s projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to build adaptable schedules for different kinds of projects
• How Gantt charts, calendars, and milestones can drive a project forward or stall it out
• How to use your scope and stakeholder needs to build in proper buffers and reviews
• How time boxing can help you manage project profitability
• Ways to negotiate additional time for schedules

Outcomes

• Build a useful Gantt chart for both Waterfall and Agile managed practice projects
• Practice tough conversations around managing timelines and resetting expectations
• Review current and future schedules and adjust accordingly within your organization

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to allocate, plan, and buffer resources, materials, and equipment for your projects
• How to assess stakeholder and contractor availability and involvement
• How to source and work with contractor talent
• How to set up optimal capacity across multiple project teams

Outcomes

• Resourcing and capacity plan for Tiny Bio
• Resourcing and capacity review of your own projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to plan, pace, and respond to team and stakeholder feedback
• How to automate and simplify the approval process
• Useful ways to document and track feedback and approvals

Outcomes

• Checklists and guides for managing changes
• Responses to feedback on Tiny Bio projects

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to monitor burn rates, resources, KPIs, and staff retention
• How to stay on top of changes and outcomes
• Ways to automate and simplify reviews and approvals

Outcomes

• Optimization of your organization’s metrics and data systems
• A useful system for monitoring Tiny Bio’s metrics

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to cultivate positive long term partnerships
• How to plan for an effective launch
• How to set up a successful maintenance plan and future phases
• How to build in proper testing and proper quality assurance

Outcomes

• Maintenance or future phase plan for Tiny Bio
• Template for maintenance agreements

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Areas of focus for future professional development
• Review of major concepts
• How to transition to a full project load
• The growth path of project managers
• How technology impacts project management’s future

Outcomes

• Final reflective essay
• Updated skills assessment
• Updated KPIs and goals

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to selectively present and share data
• How to improve tone and delivery
• How to anticipate audience needs

Outcomes

• Self and peer assessment
• Final project plan assignment

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to cul­ti­vate pos­i­tive long-term partnerships
• How to set up a suc­cess­ful plans for future phases
• How to build in prop­er test­ing and prop­er qual­i­ty assurance
• How to run effective retrospectives and support continuous improvement

Outcomes

• Retrospective workshop templates
• A preliminary plan for how to run retros with your team
• A retro outcomes follow-up plan
• The outline for a continuous QA plan for your teams

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion styles
• How to cul­ti­vate emo­tion­al intel­li­gence and empa­thy for project stakeholders
• How to pri­or­i­tize and man­age tough conversations

Outcomes

• Empa­thy map
• Sim­u­la­tion: scripts to deal with tough personalities
• Difficult conversation planning checklist
• Scripts for generating alignment

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• The process of planning project communications
• How to determine when and how communication happens
• How to foster team-wide, healthy project communication
• How to prepare for tough conversations

Outcomes

• Empa­thy map
• Communication guidelines
• “Scripts for tough conversations” handbook
• Map of internal and client project communications

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to cul­ti­vate pos­i­tive long-term partnerships
• How to set up a suc­cess­ful plans for future phases
• How to build in prop­er test­ing and prop­er qual­i­ty assurance
• How to run effective retrospectives and support continuous improvement

Outcomes

• Retrospective workshop templates
• A preliminary plan for how to run retros with your team
• A retro outcomes follow-up plan
• The outline for a continuous QA plan for your teams

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

• How to cul­ti­vate emo­tion­al intel­li­gence and empa­thy for project stakeholders
• How to pri­or­i­tize and man­age tough conversations
• How to build a stronger, more uni­fied team

Outcomes

• Peo­ple skills work­shop to do with your team
• A plan to han­dle tough con­ver­sa­tions with Tiny Bio stakeholders
• Tools and exercises to build self trust, team trust, leadership trust, external stakeholder trust
• Map of when to deploy alignment tools in the course of a project
• Operating manual for self
• Alignment plan with clients, team, and executives/clients