Date: Thursday, July 24, 2014 – Friday, July 25, 2014
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Location:  La Quinta Perimeter Medical, 6260 Peachtree Dunwoody, Atlanta, GA 30328

Earn 16 PDUs!

The era of pure plan and control project management has ended. Not only in IT, but also in most other domains; technical as well as non-technical. It is time to get in front of the wave. Be on your way, not in the way. Lean-Agile project managers with hands-on experience are in high demand. The opportunity is within your reach.

The Lean-Agile Project Management Experience has been in the making for over 7 years and is the result of actual Lean-Agile implementations the instructor led worldwide. With over 3,000 trained on pragmatic Lean-Agile and over 280 teams launched globally, the program is based solely on actual implementations of Lean-Agile project management.



If you are eager to learn about the new project management role for the Creative Economy, consider this: Your career and success is based on your general project management expertise plus your Lean-Agile project management skills. Pragmatic experience in Lean-Agile project management is the foundation for project management success in modern organizations. Lean-Agile skills will separate you from the crowd. It enables you to increase ROI (Return On Investment). For your projects, your organization, and for your career.

Step into a simulated Lean-Agile project world created for you. A world in which you will execute a real and complex agile project. Hands-on. It will require 16 hours of your undivided attention. This program is not for everyone. This program is for project managers who want to learn by doing and welcome a challenge beyond the status-quo academic training teaching everything except what you encounter in the Real World. Your World. This program is a hands-on project execution experience that will convince you to change everything.

Who should attend:
Anyone interested in real-world implementations of Lean-Agile. Project Managers, Program Managers, Portfolio Managers, PMO leads, Executives.

Instructor: Karlheinz Muenchow, Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

As founder, CEO and President of XoJom Group, Karlheinz Muenchow helps organizations in the common-sense adoption of Lean-Agile to increase ROI through effectiveness and quality, reduced cycle times, and to create an adaptive environment to innovate and lead.

Working with clients worldwide, Karl provides invaluable lessons and insights to accelerate the process for learning and piloting Lean-Agile, and to successfully expand Lean-Agile across the organization.

Karl’s unique approach and proficiency in scaling agility allows him to successfully coach organizations with complex systems programs that often require the coupling of agile and non-agile approaches within phase-gate governance.

His hands-on approach rolling out Lean-Agile with organizations in Europe, India, Brazil, and all across the United States has given him a deep understanding of how companies vary in their needs and requirements for implementing Lean-Agile.

After a successful career in engineering and management spanning over 15 years in the United States and Europe, Karl has chosen to dedicate his professional life to helping clients create a culture of agility through comprehensive process initiatives. He also works closely with the Project Management Institute and provides PM training that integrates Lean and Agile best practices with solid project management fundamentals.

Karl believes that value creation will increasingly favor organizations embracing creative, adaptive, and lean processes and approaches. He emphasizes that It is by commitment to a clear vision and the pursuit of innovation through continuous learning and improvement that we drive meaningful transformative change in our organizations and teams.
Above all, Karl is passionate about bringing Lean-Agile to complex program and portfolio management and to spreading the message of agility and flexibility through educational programs.

Besides holding a Diploma Engineering Degree from the University of Reutlingen, Germany, Karl is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Project Management Professional (PMP)®. He belongs to the Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, Project Management Institute (PMI)®, and actively contributes to Agile organizations in the United States and Europe. Karl can be reached at Karl.Muenchow@XoJomGroup.com.

RSVP: Thursday, July 17, 2014

Registration Fee:

$ 645 --- PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate)
$ 795 --- Non-member (standard rate)

Please note that walk-ins on the same day as class are not allowed. Registration must be completed on-line in advance of RSVP date provided in course description.

  • For information on the event, please contact Certification & Education Class Chair at email pmpsemchair@pmiatlanta.org or leave a voicemail message at 678-820-9553.