Zilverline organizes Agile Project Management training with Rob Thomsett

On October 22 and 23 2008 Zilverline organizes an Agile Project Management training in Breukelen. This is an excellent opportunity to get first hand experience from very experienced Agile Project Managers. Rob Thomsett and Michael Franken will teach you the ins and outs of being a successful Project Manager in an Agile context.

The training location is at Hotel Breukelen.

The two day training fee is 1795,= euro ex. VAT, including course material, refreshments, coffee and thee, and lunch. You will also receive a CD with two new Agile PM books on it.

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Details of the training

The training, presented by Rob Thomsett, is a two-day workshop for project managers. In this highly-provocative and challenging training, Agile Project Management will be explored and the workshop will provide a forum for project managers together with their peers to come to grips with the new world of project management.

The workshop is presented as a series of tutorials which will be tailored to reflect the participant's knowledge and experience, particularly focusing on those areas in which participants require advanced knowledge or are currently experiencing difficulties.We will cover the following subjects:

1. The Evolution of Business Project Management
2. Agile Project Management Process
3. Project Stakeholder Management
4. Added Value Analysis
5. Risk management.

About Rob Thomsett

Rob joined computing in 1968 and has been consulting and educating in the area of project management, teams and quality since 1974. In 1981, Rob was contracted by YOURDON Inc. in New York to present seminars in the U.S. and U.K. based on his book People and Project Management published by YOURDON Press.

During his career, Rob has worked with Gerry Weinberg, Larry Constantine, Meiler Page-Jones and Ed Yourdon. These people have influenced much of Rob's work. Rob is also a member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious American Programmer with Ed Yourdon, Tom DeMarco, Bill Curtis, Capers Jones and other leading U.S. information system experts.

His second book Third Wave Project Management: A Handbook for managing the Complex Information Systems for the 1990s was published by Prentice Hall, New York in 1993.

In 1994, he developed the Accreditation Programme for Project Management for the Australian Computer Society. His latest book, Radical Project Management, 2002 has continued to gain a world-wide interest. He has presented at many IT and business conferences and has been voted Speaker of the Conference in many of them.

For more information see: http://www.thomsettinternational.com/main/company/rthomsett.htm 

About Michael Franken

Michael Franken is an Agile Management Consultant, Trainer andCoach, as well as a Project Manager.

He is a great evangelist ofAgile principles and practices, and has successfully introduced SCRUMin many places in the Netherlands (in cooperation with JeffSutherland). Michael is a certified PMI project manager (1999).