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The Digital Transformation and DevOps - discover how to lead DevOps and get DevOps Leader Certified!
We are living in an era characterized by fast change and automation, technology is pervading every aspect of life. To keep pace with this "digital revolution", IT professionals and DevelOpers have to continuously upgrade their technical skills in order to be able to deal with new services and procedures. When speaking about "revolution" we imagine a change that pervades all the aspects of working activities so, focussing just on technical competencies represents a great underestimation of these changes. Revolution involves also cultural aspects and soft skills! The way of leading teams and departments is affected by digitalization; organizations that want to undertake the digitalization challenges need people capable of leading this change. Leadership is a transfunctional skill essential to enable any department of the organization to reach the common objectives and maintaining the outcomes during the time. A new figure capable of creating a digital transformation, applying new techniques that have been proven by enterprise organisations is needed. This figure is the DevOps Leader. Organization’s profitability and productivity depends on the team capability to develop products, the good Devops Leader enhance comunication through the department producing profitabilities.Why enrolling for the DevOps Leader course, and what prerequisits are needed to be DevOps leader certified?
The importance of the DevOps Leader course is represented by its unique position in the market, it was developed by leveraging key DevOps leadership sources to extract real-life best practices in leading DevOps initiatives, such as the Spotify Squad Model, and has been designed to teach the key differences and emerging practices for cultural transformation through leadership in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment. Leadership is a pivotal skill for many function across the team that's why the DevOps Leader training is addressed to everyone starting or leading a DevOps digital trasformation program, professionals involved in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, change agents, business managers and stakeholders. The only mandatory requirement is having succeded the DevOps Fundation examination. The course aims to strenghten the 3 pivotal competencies of a real DevOps Leader:- Inspirational Communication: this is the capability of a devops leader to share an appealing vision that inspires and motivates the Devops team to perform beyond expectations. The Leader encourages people to see the change as an opportunity.
- Intellectual stimulation: capability to challenge a team to ask new questions, challenge assumptions, take risks and generate ideas.
- Personal recognition: focus on the individual needs, acknowledge better performance and personally compliments for developments and achievements.
CONFIRMED COURSES FOR JUNE, JULY AND SEPTEMBER
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- Programme Management - MSP Foundation 3-4-5 June 2019 (EN) → More Info
- Project Management- PRINCE2 Agile Practioner 11-12-13 June (EN) → More Info
- Project Management- AgilePM Foundation 17-18-19 June (EN) → More Info
- Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 1-2-3 July (FR) → More Info
- Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi 1-2-3-4-5 July (FR) → More Info
- Service Management- ITIL 4 Foundation 09-10-11 September (FR) → More Info
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Wintertime comes to its end but QRP continues to spread knowledge in best practices through its accredited courses in Luxembourg.
Have a look at this list of confirmed courses: PRINCE2 and MSP!
CONFIRMED COURSES FOR MAY AND JUNE
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Having a strategic vision is pivotal
Project Managers are experiencing the need of having a strategic vision and this need will increase more and more. This means PMs will still need to deliver on time, on budget, within scope, but they will need to acquire that strategic vision which is essential for the full realization of the project and of the expected outcomes. As emerged from the reports: “Project managers recognize that organizations will demand greater strategic vision and business awareness and as such will need to develop broader strategic skills to fulfil this need.” Differently from the past, nowadays PMs are involved in the planning of the overall project strategy and they take directly part to all the project stages. The trend for the next years is that the strategic involvement will increase significantly and it will lead to a higher level of responsibility for the whole project: Project Managers will be responsible of the identification of the project to keep an eye on the overall organization objectives. Projects considered not strategic will be abandoned for the ones that serve the organization objectives the most. “90% of project managers agree that they need a much stronger strategic vision that aligns with the goals of the business.” Consequently, Project Managers have to enlarge their skills in order to include strategic and commercial competences such as the commercial analysis, change management and people management .Change Management as an asset
Project Management will become more and more a basic business skill: every aspect of our roles can be considered in terms of project managing and delivering. “Project Management will be used widely by individuals across the whole organization and will be seen as a valuable business skill. This democratization of Project Management will only enhance the value of Project Managers, setting them apart as professionals as they evolve their roles to be more strategic and affect change within the business.”Acquisition of Agiles Methodologies
Past years have been characterized by the trend towards the adoption of Agile methodologies and this trend will increase during next years. Agile methodologies are recognized to fit the most the ever-changing business environment of the modern era and this has an impact also on Project Management.
“89% of project managers agree on the need of having more creativity and flexibility in Project Management”. Working agile allows Project Managers to satisfy organization needs, needs which are in constant evolution and requires flexible, efficient and fast answers to the project execution. Real time information is getting more and more important with the consequence of making business scheduling redundant. Working Agile allows a continuous improvement on the product/service also after the launch. This means that the initial version doesn’t need perfection: the result is a decreasing of pressure during the launching phase and an acceleration in product development. The identified trends underline the strategic importance of the Project Manager role for the success of the entire organization. Their ability to deal with and enact change will make of Project Management a unique and indispensable profession. Project Managers will be required to develop strategic competencies and skills in business analysis, change management, organizational diplomacy, leadership and communication (both internal and external). Getting organization more and more involved with new technologies, Agile methodologies will continue to influence Project Management professionals requiring them to be more flexible and creative. Interested in reading the complete report?Download it now! Do you want to know more about Project Management? Subscribe to our newsletter!QRP facilitates change for better results
QRP International helps organizations and professionals in developing their competences and in the implementation of Best Practices thanks to its tailor-made offer of Training, Certification and Consultancy in Project Management. Sources: « The future project management professional », Axelos « Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017–2027 », PMI
QRP International has a core purpose: "Developing professionals to facilitate change". We believe in change as a tool for growth and improvement, not only professionally, but also in our society. This is the reason why every year we choose to support a cause. This year we chose to support Hope and Homes for Children.
Over 8 million of children worldwide live in orphanages or other forms of institutional care. Hope and Homes for Children has a mission: to be the catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care of children and ensure that all children can grow up in lovely and safe families.
Hope and Homes for Children is working in over 30 countries to dismantle orphanage-based care systems and to find safe and loving families for children who live in orphanages. They’re also working with governments to tackle the root causes of family breakdown, and to prevent family separation. Indeed, the 80% of children confined to orphanages are not orphans: they have at least one living parent or relative but are abandoned because of poverty, disability or discrimination. With the right support, these children can join loving foster families or, if they are old enough, they can be supported to live independently.
The mission could seem impossible but it is not: since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children have transformed the lives of thousands of children by closing 109 orphanages across 9 countries.
QRP International decided to support the organization with a donation that will enable 3 vulnerable children, currently held in bleak orphanages, to start a new and better life with their birth family or with a foster family. Because all children need to live in a safe and stable environment to grow and develop their potential.
Visit their website to know their mission, stories and beautiful achievements: Hope and Homes for Children
Just few days left for the launching of the new ITIL version, ITIL 4: the Foundation module of the new certification scheme will be available from the 28 of February.
The update involved more than 2000 professionals with the aim of developing a framework which is agile and easy to apply. The ITIL version 4 framework provides a comprehensive, practical and proven guidance expanding itself to the wider context of customer experience, value streams and digital transformation, as well as embracing new ways of working as Lean, Agile and DevOps.
The framework has been developed to guarantee a flexible, coordinated and integrated system for the effective IT services governance and management
New ITIL 4 Foundation courses
ITIL 4 Foundation will be the first module to be launched; the release of the further modules is scheduled for Q2 2019. Currently, the updated ITIL version is available only in English and as for the ITIL v3 scheme, the achievement of the ITIL Foundation module is a prerequisite to have access to the further modules.
From February, 28, all the ITIL Foundation trainings in Engish published in the QRP 2019 classroom course calendar are updated to ITIL 4 version. The courses and course material are in English. Here the first dates of the ITIL 4 Foundation course in Luxembourg:
- 11-12-13 March
- 1-2-3 July
- 18-19-20 November
ITIL 4 webinar
The update to the ITIL 4 version brings changes to the entire ITIL framework. In order to let you know all the news of ITIL 4 and the differences with the previous ITIL v3 version, we have prepared a webinar about the ITIL update. Our ITIL trainer, Kaïs Albassir, will explain how the update will impact the ITIL framework and will clarify all the likely doubts. The free webinar From ITIL v3 to ITIL 4: everything you need to know about the update takes place on March, 12. At the end of the webinar there will be an Q&A session with the trainer but if you miss the event, you will receive an email with the link to watch the registration of the webinar.