Course Outline

Course Introduction

  • The significance of processes, agility, and the role of the Process Owner in enhancing operational efficiency for government.

Process Design Basics

  • The Elements of a Process
  • Process Owner Responsibilities
    • Process sponsorship
    • Process resourcing
    • Process design and improvement
    • Process management
    • Process awareness

Process Owner Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes

Selecting a Process Owner

Related Roles

  • Process Manager
  • Global Process Owner
  • Value Stream Owner
  • Roles of a Service Management Office (SMO)

The Characteristics of an Agile Process

Agile Basics

  • What is Agile?
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Why Agile Projects are Successful

Scrum Basics

  • Scrum Roles, Artifacts, and Events
  • Scrum Pillars
  • Scrum in a Nutshell
  • Scrum, Kanban, or Both?

Agile Service Management Basics

  • Agile Service Management Value
  • Agile Service Management Roles, Artifacts, and Events
  • Characteristics of an Agile Process
    • Agile Process Design
    • Agile Process Improvement

Agile Process Design

  • Creating and Populating a Process Backlog
    • Personas
    • User Stories
    • Themes
    • Epics
  • User Story Mapping
  • Ordering and Maintaining the Process Backlog
  • Process Design Sprints
  • The Process Owner and Sprint Events
  • Process Implementation
    • Potentially Releasable Process Increment
    • Definition of 'Done'
    • Release Planning

Agile Process Improvement

  • Aligning Processes with Strategic Goals for government
  • CSI Sprints and Plan-Do-Check-Act
  • Sustaining Improvements
  • Assessing Process Maturity
  • Implementing Process Improvements
    • Working with Line Managers
    • Overcoming Resistance to Change

Measuring Value

  • Demonstrating Value
  • Leading and Lagging Performance Indicators
  • Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators
  • Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements
  • Conducting Measurement Reviews
  • Communicating Performance

Process Improvement Tools and Technologies

Getting Started

Challenges and Critical Success Factors

Additional Sources of Information

Exam Preparations

  • Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
  • Sample Exam Review

Requirements

PREREQUISITES

  • Completion of pre-class assignment
  • Familiarity with Scrum, IT, and IT services

AUDIENCE

The target audience for the CAPO course is:

  • Process owners
  • Process managers
  • Employees and managers responsible for designing, re-engineering, or improving processes
  • Consultants guiding clients through process improvement initiatives
  • Anyone responsible for:
    • Managing process-related requirements
    • Ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of processes
    • Maximizing the value of processes for government operations
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