Learning catalogue

This online self-paced course introduces the most common Agile methodologies and frameworks, including Agile's 4 primary values, 12 principles and 5 phases of its project management model. Participants will explore key activities for managing a project using Agile, such as developing a project charter and a product vision, using appropriate types of contracts, and favouring simple over comprehensive forms of project documentation.

This online self-paced course examines critical planning activities in Agile such as creating personas and wireframing, as well as iterative methodologies for prioritizing project requirements as part of a release plan. Participants will learn about common Agile estimation techniques such as story points, wideband delphi and affinity estimation.

This online self-paced course presents Agile's time-management processes for monitoring and tracking progress, as well as key risk management strategies and quality testing frameworks in Agile. Participants will learn about managing projects using Agile project scheduling activities like setting work-in-progress limits and implementing project buffers.

This online self-paced course offers insights into the characteristics of agile project teams and team leaders, and recommends strategies to help improve team performance and cohesion. Participants will learn about communication tools and developmental mastery models in Agile, as well as the benefits of using facilitation techniques like games to foster collaboration and cooperation.

During one of our last episodes, we talked about the importance of designing with users in mind. This is a foundational part of the GC Digital Standards. What could be better than putting users at the centre of our efforts to improve our jobs and service offerings?

If you read our last post, you know we are interested in artificial intelligence. This week we want to talk a little bit about how we’re actually using artificial intelligence within the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) Digital Academy to solve a very real problem or — as marketing people say — embrace an opportunity.

This online self-paced course focuses on the importance of aligning your goals with the goals of your organization, and introduces the goal alignment worksheet as a means to achieve this more easily. Through this worksheet, participants will learn how to clarify goals and establish work priorities based on these goals to manage time effectively.

This online self-paced course demonstrates the importance of setting strategic, tactical and operational goals, and how to identify imperatives for action that keep the focus on strategic objectives. Participants will learn how to create effective team goals that align with the goals of their organization.

In this powerful video testimony, Deputy Minister Daniel Quan-Watson shares his personal experiences of racism, including as a public servant representing Canada on the world stage.

This course explores colonialism and other historical themes and events in a way that provides an opportunity to see Canada's history from a new perspective. Participants will learn how the relationships with First Peoples in Canada have developed over the past 500 years and how to begin the work of addressing the impact of this history on all Canadians.

This online self-paced course examines two risk analysis processes in the project risk management knowledge area: Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis. Participants will learn to apply qualitative and quantitative risk analysis methods to calculate and understand the financial implications and other costs of project risks.

This event welcomes leaders who will share their thoughts, experiences and knowledge on how hybrid work has changed project management. They will provide insight on how the role of a project sponsor has evolved, how to launch new initiatives and how to manage a major project under difficult conditions.