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Sustainable Agile Projects with certification
Create value and sustainable development within your company
_Sustainable Agile Projects with certification
More than 30% of the western economy is tied up in projects. In other words, we have the opportunity to make a big difference by incorporating sustainability into our projects.
Accordingly, we have combined sustainability and agile project management and are proud to present the World’s first course in Sustainable Agile Projects.
You will learn how to operationally execute sustainability projects from start to finish, and how you can adapt the method from project to project. The approach is designed for both teams that are geographically distributed and/or work on the same location.
_Sustainable Agile Projects with certification
More than 30% of the western economy is tied up in projects. In other words, we have the opportunity to make a big difference by incorporating sustainability into our projects.
Accordingly, we have combined sustainability and agile project management and are proud to present the World’s first course in Sustainable Agile Projects.
You will learn how to operationally execute sustainability projects from start to finish, and how you can adapt the method from project to project. The approach is designed for both teams that are geographically distributed and/or work on the same location.
_Sustainable Agile Projects with certification– scheduled courses
_Sustainable Agile Projects with certification– scheduled courses
About the course
Make a difference and increase motivation with Green Project Management®. Learn how social aspects and environmental considerations can become a part of your projects.
How to create value and sustainable development in your projects.
Course description
Green Project Management® (GPM®) is a thorough disquisition of the sustainable project method. You will learn methods, acquire tools and receive insights into how you can add a green focus to your projects.
The method is developed by the organisation Green Project Management®, which is a global leader within sustainable project management.
GPM® will teach you to include relevant aspects of sustainability in your way of conducting project management. You will get concrete tools and methods to incorporate into your current project approach.
During the course we will work with:
- Identifying and adding sustainable principles and elements to projects.
- In-depth knowledge of techniques and methods for project management – as well as how you can affect the life cycle of the product during the process.
- Principles for sustainability.
- The advantages of using the “Projects Integrating Sustainable Methods”, PRiSM™, project life cycle.
- Looking at the project, organisation, and the way you are as a project manager from a whole new perspective.
Target group
The course is aimed at project managers, team leaders, project participants, PMO-members, mid-level managers, and others, who wish to learn how to carry through sustainable projects.
No qualifications are needed to participate in the course.
Benefits
After completing the course each participant will be able to:
- Describe the importance and results of working with sustainability.
- Understand the PRiSM™ project life cycle.
- Write an efficient business case.
- Do a P5 impact assessment (P5IA).
- Be a part of and negotiate with project stakeholders.
- Evaluate potential suppliers based on sustainability criteria.
- Document the project’s criteria for success.
Certification
The course prepares you for the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic from Green Project Management®.
Teaching method
There will be 2-4 hours’ worth of reading material in preparation for the course.
The spoken word is Danish, but the written material and certification are in English.
During the course, we will conduct a number of group assignments, which will give you ample opportunity to discuss the material and thereby increase your learning.
Price and duration
With the course Green Project Management® you get:
- A three-day course, where it is possible to participate either in person or online. Please state your preference during registration.
- Central documents that you can use directly in your projects.
- Presentation material, exercises, etc. to the course.
- Preparation material for the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic.
The price is DKK 16,500 ex VAT and excluding the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic. The certification is USD 199.
Instructor
Lasse Borris Sørensen is the course instructor. Lasse has specialised in project method and is the founder of Plan A ApS.
Lasse is driving Green Project Management® in Denmark and is leader of sustainable agile projects. He has spent more than 20,000 hours working on projects and among other things composed project models for several big companies. Finally, Lasse has taught more than 3,000 people and certified more than 500.
Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc, Executive Sustainability Tech and Board Advisor, co-founder and author of UN’s SDG Ambition.
Place
Copenhagen. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
Register by sending an email to info@SustainableAgileProjects.com
Company course
PLAN A PROJECTS OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have several employees, who need qualifications within Green Project Management? Or do you wish to create a common understanding of sustainable focus within your company? Then company courses may be just your thing.
We tailor company courses according to your needs. Contact us for further information:
Call +45 21 43 43 22 or email info@SustainableAgileProjects.com
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to info@SustainableAgileProjects.com.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to info@SustainableAgileProjects.com. If we do not receive your written cancellation at info@SustainableAgileProjects.com, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
July
Sustainable Agile Project course – with certificate. DK speak and UK text.
Provider: Plan A ApS – Trainer: Lasse Borris Sørensen and Ann Rosenberg.
September
Sustainable Agile Project course – with certificate. DK speak and UK text.
Provider: Plan A ApS – Trainer: Lasse Borris Sørensen and Ann Rosenberg.
November
Sustainable Agile Project course – with certificate. DK speak and UK text.
Provider: Plan A ApS – Trainer: Lasse Borris Sørensen and Ann Rosenberg.
About the course
At the course we work with:
- Why sustainability is relevant.
- The key sustainability-related legislation.
- The information available at the UN among others.
- How to facilitate value creation in regard to sustainability.
- Agile fundamentals.
- Which agile frameworks are designed to do what, and how they can coexist.
- Structuring, framing, and organising the project.
- Compiling user needs.
- Facilitating specification workshops.
- Two-tier planning – both for the whole building phase, and for the coming sprint/iteration.
- Facilitating the building phase in the form of sprints/iterations.
- How and where you can make the sustainability contribution of the projects and companies visible.
Benefits for the course participant
After completing the course each participant will be able to:
- Contribute to sustainability through your projects.
- Deliver sustainable projects on time – or ahead of time.
- Frame and structure sustainable projects.
- Create structured data that can be used quickly and efficiently to adjust the project deliverable and the features of the deliverable. All in collaboration with the steering group, the client, the supplier, and others influencing the project’s value creation in the entire scope of the sustainability.
- Create better results – and faster.
- Conduct projects online.
- Work in a way that makes job satisfaction and energy level come together month after month.
- Ensure learning during the entirety of the project.
- Create transparency in the project.
- Facilitate good collaboration across organisations, divisions, and cultures.
- Make sure that the project is under control.
- Make sure that the value of sustainability that the projects create can be reported.
Benefits for the company
- Opportunity to make your projects sustainable.
- Better chance of complying with the sustainability legislation in force.
- Make visible the value of sustainability that your projects create by reporting to, e.g. the UN.
- Transparency in how your company wishes to contribute to sustainability.
- Attracting and retaining those employees, who find that sustainability is important.
- Opportunity to reuse specifications from one project to another similar project. Here we have seen a reduction in time of up to 80% of the specification work.
- New employees become adept at implementing project deliverables.
- Quicker project completion by less do-over work.
- Value creation early in the planning phase. This provides the company with the flexibility to redeploy employees if priorities change.
- If you have a stage-gate project model, implementing this agile project model becomes manageable.
- A joint project approach to be used across the company.
- When you chose this project approach in the collaboration with your suppliers, the company’s employees tend to be more familiar with the project approach than the changing suppliers. This increases job satisfaction and ensures the necessary insight into the project’s course.
Sustainable Agile Community
After the course you will become member of the Sustainable Agile Community, where you will have the opportunity to participate in our Sustainable network arrangements, workshops in Denmark, access to training videos and will be invited to the most influential sustainability and web 3.0 conferences, e.g. World Economic Forum, FN General Assembly, SXSW, Cannes Lions and Consensus. Here you will have the opportunity to speak and network. In this manner, the community will strengthen your sustainability network locally and globaly in the World as we know it today and in web 3.0.
Target group
The course is aimed at project managers, sustainability employees, team leaders, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, project participants, PMO-members, mid-level managers, and others, who wish to learn how to carry through sustainable projects on time. No qualifications are needed to participate in the course.
Certification
The course prepares you for the certification Sustainable Agile. The certification is included in the price.
Teaching method
The course is conducted by using blended learning. Before the course starts, we encourage the participants to watch around three hours of educational videos. They relate to the agile part of the project approach and take you from start to finish in the project. The video preparation enables us to spend the course hours more effectively, and focus on practical case exercises, relating to actual daily work, and finally reflection. This teaching method increases learning significantly compared to traditional course learning.
All classes can be done online, so it is up to you whether you wish to participate in person or online. We use top-of-the-line conference equipment to ensure our online participants an optimal experience. Texts are in English and the speaking is in Danish. Please notify us in case you would like to do the course in English.
Free e-learning
Before the course, all participants receive free access to a total of 6-7 hours of educational videos, and when the course is finished, the participants keep this free access to the same videos for 30 days.
Price and duration
With the course Sustainable Agile Projects, you get:
- The certification Sustainable Agile.
- Access to video material complete with exercises before the course and for 30 days after course end.
- A three-day course, where you can participate in person or online.
- IT platforms and central documents, which enable you to carry out your projects after the course.
- Presentation material, exercises, etc. to the course.
- One year’s membership to our Sustainable Agile Community.
The price is DKK 12.490 per participant with 1 participant.
The price is DKK 10.600 (15% off) for the second participant with 2 participants.
The price is DKK 8.750 (30% off) from the third participant with 3 participants or more.
Prices are ex VAT.
Instructors
Lasse Borris Sørensen
Lasse Borris Sørensen is Sustainability Agile Coach & CEO at Plan A ApS. Lasse has spent more than 20,000 hours working on agile projects. Lasse has taught 3,000 people and certified 600+ in (sustainable) agile project management. He runs the environment around Sustainable Agile Projects as well as the Danish division for Green Project Management®. Lasse teaches / has taught for Plan A, Mannaz, the Danish Technological Institute, DTU, Danish IT, Finansforbundet, Lederne and on numerous company courses.
Ann Rosenberg
Ann Rosenberg is a co-founder of the UN’s SDG Ambition and has 25 years of experience within sustainability in the business world. Ann is an Executive Sustainability Tech Advisor web 2.0 og 3.0 (Blockchain, metaverse, DAO og NFT), Board Member, writer, and TEDx speaker. Ann is dedicated to spreading the UN’s SDGs.
Additionally, one or two external speakers will contribute with their take on sustainability in their part of the world.
Registration
Fill out or form by clicking here or call +45 21 43 43 22.
Company course
PLAN A OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have more employees who have used for a 3-day course within Sustainable Agile Projects?
Then company courses might be just the thing for you. We tailor company courses to your needs.
Company courses give your company the opportunity to:
✓ Educate more employees simultaneously with a focus on operational tools that enable you to increase the agile content already the day after the course.
✓ Create a common language for the employees and the company as a whole.
✓ Get a tailored course adapted to your specific needs.
✓ Get an internationally recognised agile certification administered by Agile Business Consortium (ABC) in England. ABC has worked with agile project management since 1994.
✓ Get training in Danish or English.
Does that sound like something for your business?
Call +45 21 43 43 22 or fill out or form by clicking here
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to info@planaprojects.com.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to info@planaprojects.com. If we do not receive your written cancellation at info@planaprojects.com, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
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UN Sustainability Goals
The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are designed to help nations act more sustainably. To also ensure companies’ contribution to a more sustainable world, the UN has established the SDG Ambition. As the projects most often take place under the aegis of companies, we use SDG Ambition as a framework for sustainability.
Historically speaking, projects have typically related primarily to economy. But now the UN broadens the concept of value to also include the environment, social relationships, economy, partnerships, and peace.
The sustainable focus of the course provides an understanding that it is no longer enough for the project to simply centre on sustainability up till the day of delivery, as a large part of the impact comes from the products created by the individual project. This is why a much longer time frame is needed.
The broader understanding of value and the longer time frame entails a substantial increase in the number of sources able to influence the project. Therefore, it is crucial that the project approach is created for quick and efficient adaptation.
Agile project management
This is exactly what agile project management is designed to do. And why Sustainable Agile Projects is based on the global leading approach within agile project management – Agile PM® from Agile Business Consortium – with a strong focus on practicalities.
