Courses

Content

• What is sustainability and why is it relevant to your sector?
• How the legislation increases the need for reporting on sustainability. How it increases the need to understand sustainability impacts throughout any supply chain or investment opportunity and how to prepare for its implementation.
• The methodological ‘plug-in’, which makes it possible to move from agile or traditional project management into their sustainable versions.
• How to realize the sustainability ambitions of your company – project by project.
• How to promote and communicate the sustainability gains inherent in your projects.
• What the different Agile frameworks are designed for and how can you integrate them with each other.

Benefits to the participant

• Timing of sustainable projects. A greater understanding of the timeliness of sustainable projects, as we see how the legislation has already increased the need for them.
• The ability to implement sustainability in projects. A deeper understanding of the nature of sustainability and how to integrate this into the projects.
• Learning how best to report the sustainability impacts of a project.
• From business drivers to project impact. Knowledge of how business drivers impact strategy and how projects can be focussed to deliver the desired impact. E.g., traditional earning potential combined with CO₂-reduction, equality, or any other sustainability goal in the project deliverables, at investment candidates and/or throughout the supply chain.
• Agile approach. Knowledge about the principles and methods in Agile project management necessary to implement a sustainable project on time. Physically as well as online.
• Learning how to facilitate (physically or online) impact-, specification- and planning workshops, with a view to creating sustainable solutions.

Benefits to the company

• Gain expertise in translating sustainability goals into tangible outcomes. This course provides participants with comprehensive knowledge of sustainability and effective strategies to achieve desired sustainability results in project and product development.
• Enhance sustainability metrics. By taking this course, employees will learn how to proactively leverage and enhance the sustainability impact within projects and product development, maximizing their existing potential.”
• A greater ability to adapt to the demands of a changing market. By combining sustainability and Agile project management the employee can adapt the project deliverables to changing market conditions or investor expectations. This may be crucial in ensuring that the company remains competitive and able to accommodate investors who request sustainable investment opportunities.
• Improved project management. This course will teach the employee methods of Agile project management. These focus on collaboration and ensuring fast and efficient adaptation to the changes in scope which are to be expected. This will ensure an increase in value in the individual project.
• Stronger teamwork and collaboration. Agile methods emphasise collaboration and communication between team members. The employee will learn to facilitate workshops and processes of collaboration, which may strengthen collaboration efforts across the company.
• Stronger focus on user needs. The course will teach the employee how to gather and interpret user needs into deliverables more efficiently. This may lead to a more user-oriented approach to work, which may improve customer satisfaction as well as the reputation of the company.

Target Audience
This course is relevant for Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum Teams, those who work in sustainability, project participants, PMO members, middle management, and anyone else who are interested in how to ensure sustainable impact in Agile projects.