Project Management Training - London - Agile vs Standard and which one

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

For true Agile, you'd need scrum master training rather than project management training.

Horses for courses and all that.

Scrum has done a great job convincing people that Agile = Scrum (which to be fair, seems to almost always be the case with my clients). I'm not that old but I can still remember when it was just "agile" and meant nothing more than the simple principles of the agile manifesto, not Agile™. #getoffmylawn

[vetran]

QA I did a few with them.

Note if you are on the bench its worth asking them for late availability like flights. If the course is only half full anything they get from you is profit.

Remember courses are fully tax deductible out of IR35, if its £1k you only really pay about £500 after tax.

[northernladuk]

Remember courses are fully tax deductible out of IR35, if its £1k you only really pay about £500 after tax.

This isn't carte blanche. There are rules about which ones are deductible and ones that aren't depending on what you do. If he's a BA looking to move in to PM'ing in the future then probably not.

[konsultant]

Remember courses are fully tax deductible out of IR35, if its £1k you only really pay about £500 after tax.

Thank you.

Can you please elaborate more on that?

I am on bench now and I assumed that the cost of the course can be expensed as 'Staff training'. But didnt fully understand the above tax deductible point.

[northernladuk]

Thank you.

Can you please elaborate more on that?

I am on bench now and I assumed that the cost of the course can be expensed as 'Staff training'. But didnt fully understand the above tax deductible point.

His comment is too broad so could be incorrect in some instances.

It's only allowable if it is directly related to your fee-earning work. Nothing else. If you write .NET for a living, training in .NET and immediately related technology is all that's allowable.

Anything else - new technologies, business admin, sales, whatever - is expanding your skillset and out of scope. There is a detailed explanation on the HMRC website somewhere.

[BigDataPro]

Agile is Developer/Development/Delivery focused and is TimeBoxed, whereas PMP / Prince2 follows traditional PM practices.

Clients that call themselves Agile are in fact follow traditional style higher up. If you are planning to work with Developers then former is better, otherwise the latter.

[kaiser78]

Do both PRINCE2 Practitioner and Agile Practitioner courses. Both you can self teach and then take the exam.

Agents don't know the difference between the two, but if you have these on your CV you have more chance of getting your foot in the door of any potential contract opening, backed up by demonstrating your experience when you are in of course...

[original PM]

Boy had to dredge this up

"They want to hear

Risk Analysis
Gantt Charts
Stakeholder commuinication matrix
Unit test, Black box test, white box test, shoe box test
Code libraries
Project Initiation Document
Sign off
Milestone planning
UAT
Training
Budget Managment
Customer Expectations


they want you to
Deliver everything as quickly as possible will not listen to any genuine issues which you raise which will delay go live = especially if it means they may look bad infront of their boss.

Ultimately you will be succesful if your skills are up to scratch you have some luck and when things go t!ts up you do not cop for all of the tulip."

From this thread

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...s-about-3.html

and this follow on thread

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...-box-test.html

[northernladuk]

Boy had to dredge this up

"They want to hear

Risk Analysis
Gantt Charts
Stakeholder commuinication matrix
Unit test, Black box test, white box test, shoe box test
Code libraries
Project Initiation Document

Big fish, little fish, cardboard box!!

[MonkeysUncle]

Ooooh now we get into the perm vs contract debate!

Anyways, back to my question please -

Tried and tested recommendations for training providers in the UK ?

Thanks

QA