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This 5-day program for senior leaders will guide you through a powerful journey of self-discovery. Clarify your leadership identity and enhance your capacity to effect personal and organizational change. Depart with renewed energy to lead yourself and your team into the future.

The Project Management Institute’s latest thinking, as reflected in the PMBOK® Guide Version 8, emphasizes that Project Managers need to adopt a ‘value-centric mindset’. To do that, we need to understand what value means and how our thinking can help optimize the value-creation chain.

The pace of change in today's organizations demands a more responsive approach to business analysis. This course explores what it means to practice business analysis in an agile environment, how to work effectively with agile software development teams, respond to shifting priorities and evolving requirements, and deliver what customers need, when they need it. You'll explore the connections between agile methodologies and BA practice, and develop the adaptability to thrive in fast-moving, iterative delivery contexts.

Explore the lean and agile principles underlying iterative and incremental delivery. Discover how Scrum and Kanban differ from traditional project management, and determine which framework is right for your context. Topics include: Making the case for Agile: values, principles, and business drivers. Empirical process control and flow-based delivery. Scrum roles, ceremonies, and artifacts. Kanban: visualizing workflow and managing work in progress. Choosing the right framework for your environment.

As a Product Manager, Project Manager, or Business Analyst, learn how to work with an Agile team to deliver what your customers want, when they want it. Topics include: Creating a product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog. Writing effective user stories using the INVEST criteria. Agile estimation techniques including Planning Poker and affinity estimation. Building and managing a release plan. Tracking delivery empirically and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Today's projects demand flexibility. This course equips you with the agile mindset, tools, and techniques needed to lead projects in environments where requirements evolve, priorities shift, and speed of delivery matters. You'll explore Agile frameworks and learn how to apply them alongside — or in place of — traditional waterfall approaches, and develop the judgment to know when each is appropriate.

The age of AI is not coming: it is here. The gap is widening between organizations that merely use AI tnd hose that leverage it for a decisive competitive advantage. This intensive course is designed for business leaders who are determined to be on the right side of that gap. Co-facilitated by UBC Sauder professor Gene Lee and AI industry expert, Ryan Monsurate, participants will learn to assess their organization’s readiness in data, talent, and governance, and will leave with a practical roadmap to responsibly integrate AI into strategy and operations for sustainable business advantage.

Designed for administrative professionals, this course is your gateway to understanding how AI can simplify your day-to-day tasks and save you time. Enhance your productivity and elevate your skillset with the power of generative AI.

AI can enhance Agile leadership by providing data-driven insights that help teams make more informed decisions and quickly adapt to changing project needs. This course begins on the date you register. You will receive 90 days to complete the course.

In business analysis, AI helps analyze large data sets quickly, uncovering insights and trends that drive informed decision-making.

In change management, AI forecasts the impact of organizational changes, identifies potential obstacles, and provides personalized recommendations to ensure smoother transitions

AI enhances data analytics by providing deeper insights through advanced pattern recognition, enabling more personalized and effective marketing strategies

Whether you are a seasoned business leader or someone simply curious about the future of work, this course will help you master the tools of this essential new technology. Don't get left behind—prepare to excel in an AI-driven future!

AI empowers product management by analyzing customer feedback and market trends to inform data-driven decisions.

In project management, AI tools automate routine tasks, optimize scheduling, and predict risks, enabling managers to make data-driven decisions and allocate resources efficiently.