Events

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Beginning March 6, 2021

9:30 AM-3:30 PM

ZOOM or GOODWIN COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Gerri. C. LeBow Hall 3220 Market Street, Suite 370 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
The Drexel Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is a comprehensive and rigorous journey that a dedicated student can undertake to expand and hone their continuous improvement skills. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is designed for professionals with prior Lean Six Sigma experience and whose roles include training individuals and teams, big picture problem-solving, and project leadership.
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Introduction to Business Analysis

Friday and Saturday, March 12 & 13, 2021

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

Zoom
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
This is a 2-day introductory course designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of the benefits, functions, and impact a business analyst has within an organization. The course discusses the process as it is applied throughout a project. This includes the pre-project activities that comprise Strategy analysis and how a business analyst supports the project throughout the solution development life cycle, from establishing the solution vision and scope in the analysis phase to validating that requirements have been met in the testing phase. Upon completion, you understand why and when to involve the business analysis function.
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Lean Six Sigma White Belt

Friday, March 26, 2021

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Zoom
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
In this 8-hour course, participants will learn the foundational principles for Lean Six Sigma, including understanding what it is, how it works, and why it is so valuable to all types of organizations. Gain a solid grounding in the Lean Six Sigma framework for process improvement, with special emphasis on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) structure.
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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Beginning April 3, 2021

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

GOODWIN COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Gerri. C. LeBow Hall 3220 Market Street, Suite 370 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
Find out why our Lean Six Sigma Green Belts are successful in facilitating and completing improvement projects. Our Lean Six Sigma Green Belt methodology has just the right blend of theory, statistics and application to help you implement and measure your success. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt is geared toward professionals with project and process management and improvement skills. If your job requires that you remove risk and errors, shorten time cycles and standardize procedures, this course is for you. Previous Lean Six Sigma knowledge, especially those who hold a Yellow Belt are positioned to gain the most out of the certification—including an increased earning potential and career mobility.
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Agile Scrum Team Workshop

Friday and Saturday, April 9 & 10, 2021

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Zoom
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
This two-day Agile Scrum training utilizes an immersive learning approach which allows you to practice the Agile Scrum techniques as you learn them. You will create Agile teams and simulate an actual sprint using a chosen project. You will also conduct five scrum ceremonies while creating user stories, product backlogs, scrumboards, burndown charts, and participate in a daily meeting, demo and retrospective—all while using your chosen project as a case study for the exercises.
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Business Analysis: Requirement Elicitation

Friday and Saturday, May 7 & 8, 2021

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Zoom Gerri. C. LeBow Hall 3220 Market Street, Suite 370 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
In this highly interactive two-day course, you will learn how to enhance and refine your elicitation skills. You explore industry best practices as well as professional tips and methods from expert faculty in the field. Working in small groups, you will practice new techniques and discuss strategies that can be used to better define stakeholder needs. A case study-driven workshop comprises more than half the course and provides a real-world example, templates and job aids to reference once you return back to the job. If you or your organization are struggling with missing requirements, lack of stakeholder involvement, out of control scope, or the inability to know which tools to apply to elicit the most thorough requirements, this course can help you succeed.
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Practical Project Management for the Working Professional

May 14, 2021 through May 21, 2021

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Zoom
- Everyone
- Graduate Students
- Staff
- Alumni
Practical Project Management is a 14-hour bootcamp that teaches innovative project management concepts and techniques. This training builds upon the competencies presented in PMI®'s internationally recognized A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), providing proven methods to enable and enhance traditional management approaches. By focusing on these high-return concepts and tools, you will expand your knowledge and skills, becoming an advanced project leader ready to succeed in real-world initiatives.
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Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Thursday and Friday, June 10 & 11, 2021

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Gerri. C. LeBow Hall 3220 Market Street, Suite 370 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
Drexel University’s Yellow Belt Course (SSCE 9105) provides participants with a fundamental understanding of the Operational Excellence approach to process improvement and Lean Six Sigma methodology by focusing on Lean tools.
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Agile Scrum User Story Workshop

Friday and Saturday, June 11 & 12, 2021

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Zoom
- Graduate Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Alumni
Learn how to define and manage high-level requirements effectively and demonstrate alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes using the Agile Scrum methodology. Topics will also cover product backlog management including epic decomposition, acceptance criteria (Gherkin & Bullet technique), story point estimation, and prioritization.
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