François Chung, Ph.D.

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Enterprise Design Thinking

Enterprise Design Thinking

IBM training, MOOC (2020). This 3-course online training from IBM aims to train design thinkers to address uncertainty, work within constraints, and create human-centered solutions. People with a human-centered mindset are primed to solve problems together, with empathy and humility. With Enterprise Design Thinking, teams can work more efficiently, because they stay aligned and keep people at the center of their work. It’s a proven way to come to better solutions, faster.

Course 1: Enterprise Design Thinking practitioner

Main topics:

  • A focus on user outcomes;
  • Restless reinvention;
  • Diverse empowered teams;
  • Make a plan.

Course 2: Enterprise Design Thinking co-creator

Main topics:

  • Embrace diversity on your team;
  • Stakeholder map;
  • Create a research plan;
  • Turn research into actions;
  • Empathy map;
  • Build detailed prototypes;
  • Prioritization grid;
  • Refine through feedback;
  • Experience-based roadmap.

Course 3: Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI

Main topics:

  • The AI essentials framework;
  • Define your intent;
  • Identify data sources;
  • Recognize what your AI needs to understand;
  • Articulate your AI strategy;
  • Reflect on your AI’s capabilities.

References

PRINCE2 Foundation

PRINCE2 Foundation

B2B Learning training, Belgium (2018). This 3-day accredited training gives a complete introduction to the PRINCE2 project management method and prepares for the certification exam. PRINCE2 is a method for managing projects in a structured way and provides an easily tailored and scalable method for the management of all types of projects, e.g. with a management by stages, by defining roles and responsibilities, learning from experience and focusing on products.

Module 1: Introduction

Main topics:

  • Features and benefits;
  • Definition and characteristics of a project;
  • Six aspects of project performance;
  • Integrated elements of PRINCE2;
  • Customer/supplier context.

Module 2: PRINCE2 principles

Main topics:

  • Continued business justification;
  • Learn from experience;
  • Defined roles and responsibilities;
  • Manage by stages;
  • Manage by exception;
  • Focus on products;
  • Tailor to suit the project.

Module 3: PRINCE2 themes

Main topics:

  • Business case;
  • Organization;
  • Quality;
  • Plans;
  • Risk;
  • Change;
  • Progress.

Module 4: PRINCE2 processes

Main topics:

  • Starting up a project;
  • Directing a project;
  • Initiating a project;
  • Controlling a stage;
  • Managing product delivery;
  • Managing a stage boundary;
  • Closing a project.

References

Training

Certification (PeopleCert)

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Project planning and management

Project planning and management

Coursera training, MOOC (2017). Given online by the University of Virginia (US), this training introduces the key concepts of planning, executing and managing various types of projects. Every organization runs projects, formally or informally. Project management provides organizations and individuals with the language and methodologies for scoping projects, identifying dependencies, sequencing activities, utilizing resources and minimizing risks.

Week 1: Welcome to the world of projects

Main topics:

  • Organization and stakeholders;
  • Project success and failure;
  • Project life-cycle.

Week 2: The ins and outs of project planning

Main topics:

  • Detailed scoping;
  • Identifying dependencies;
  • Completion date and critical path.

Week 3: It’s a risky world

Main topics:

  • Assessing project risks;
  • Cost risk analysis;
  • Planning for ambiguity.

Week 4: Project execution

Main topics:

  • From plan to action;
  • Earned value;
  • Agile, Scrum and Kanban.

Reference

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Requirements engineering

Requirements engineering

Coralius training, Belgium (2016). This classroom training is intended to get acquainted with the requirements engineering process as supported by the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB). Main objectives are to apply learnings and principles to the requirement gathering and analysis (RGA) phase, recognize risks and address them appropriately, as well as gather, analyze, specify, validate and document requirements in a correct and structured fashion.

Day 1: Foundations and stakeholders

Main topics:

  • Need of requirements engineering;
  • Basics of communication theory;
  • Skills of a requirements engineer;
  • Documentation of requirements;
  • Onion model;
  • Stakeholder analysis.

Day 2: Requirement management

Main topics:

  • Requirement elicitation;
  • Requirement analysis;
  • Requirement specification;
  • Requirement validation;
  • Traceability and priority;
  • Change management.

References

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IREB – International Requirements Engineering Board
Coralius