Project Management Training in Braga

Linear is a high-performance issue tracking and product management platform designed for fast-moving teams.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level product and engineering leaders who wish to streamline planning, task tracking, and workflow automation using Linear.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement Linear as a central platform for project management and product delivery.
• Integrate Linear with enterprise tools like GitHub, Slack, and SSO providers.
• Automate issue triage and reporting using Linear’s AI features.
• Apply best practices for migration from Jira or Asana to Linear at scale.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

MSP (Managing Successful Programs) is a best-practice framework for designing, delivering and sustaining coordinated change across multiple related projects to achieve strategic business outcomes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to apply MSP concepts to plan, govern, and deliver complex programs that realise organisational benefits.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain MSP principles, governance themes, and the program lifecycle.
• Design program organisation, roles, and responsibilities to support delivery.
• Develop a benefits-driven program blueprint and business case.
• Establish robust governance, assurance, and stakeholder engagement practices.
• Manage risk, issues, dependencies, and benefits realisation across projects.
• Plan transition to business-as-usual and close programs effectively.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Scenario-based workshops and practical exercises.
• Group activities focused on program design, governance, and benefits mapping.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Procurement Management for Construction Materials is the discipline of planning, sourcing, and overseeing material purchases to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery for construction projects.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at construction and procurement professionals with limited or emerging experience in material procurement who wish to optimize construction sourcing processes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the procurement lifecycle in the context of construction projects.
• Plan material purchases aligned with project timelines and specifications.
• Evaluate and manage vendors and supplier relationships effectively.
• Implement controls and tracking mechanisms for construction inventory.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on planning using procurement documentation and tools.
• Guided case studies focused on real construction sourcing challenges.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your organization’s construction sourcing policies, please contact us to arrange.

Construction Project Management is the practice of applying structured methodologies to the planning and execution of civil works projects, with emphasis on construction-specific constraints and timelines.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals with limited or emerging experience in construction project coordination who wish to apply project management techniques tailored to the construction industry.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply project management principles to construction-specific milestones and deliverables.
• Use scheduling tools and methods to manage deadlines and resource constraints.
• Navigate the regulatory and logistical elements unique to construction projects.
• Monitor and control construction progress effectively.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on use of project management tools in civil construction scenarios.
• Guided exercises focused on timeline, budget, and quality control.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your organization’s construction project types, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level program and project managers who wish to master MSP® principles, governance themes, and transformational flow.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the MSP® principles, governance themes, and transformational flow.
• Apply MSP® best practices to real-world program management.
• Align program objectives with organizational strategy.
• Manage risk, stakeholders, and benefits within a program.
• Prepare for and pass the MSP® Foundation & Practitioner exams.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level end users who wish to improve their project management and task tracking efficiency.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic functionalities of Smartsheets.
• Learn how to navigate and customize Smartsheets to manage tasks, projects, and workflows effectively.
• Gain hands-on experience creating and managing sheets, reports, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with team members using Smartsheets for real-time project tracking and management.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level project managers who wish to use Asana to manage their organization's projects and processes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Build their first project in Asana, which they can immediately apply to their work.
• Learn best practices in project management, enabling them to manage projects more effectively.
• Learn effective methods for setting goals and priorities, helping them to focus more on what is important to achieve desired results.
• Discover how to summarize work with the team, reflect on failures and mistakes, and implement improvements.
• Learn how to save several hours a week using templates and automation available in Asana and integrations with other platforms.
• Learn to analyze bottlenecks in projects through Asana’s statistics and reports, enabling more efficient project management.
• Discover how to create an environment in Asana to streamline operations and communication within the team so that no important information or actions are missed.
• Enhance their time management, project management, and team management skills, allowing them to act more effectively as a leader.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level project and programme managers who wish to learn the fundamentals of the framework to embed MSP within a programme lifecycle.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the MSP® principles, governance themes, and transformational flow.
• Apply MSP® principles to manage programmes effectively, including stakeholder engagement, governance, leadership, and risk management.
• Enhance skills in planning, executing, and closing programmes while managing risks and ensuring quality.
• Learn how to align programmes with organizational strategy and ensure that the benefits are realized.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level project managers, team leaders, and team members who wish to learn the basics of Microsoft Planner and how to use it to organize and manage teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and use Microsoft Planner.
• Create and manage tasks with details and attachments.
• View and organize tasks with boards, charts, and calendars.
• Collaborate with team members using chat, email, or Teams.
• Integrate Microsoft Planner with other Microsoft 365 apps and services.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level project managers who wish to learn how to use Oracle Primavera Cloud to effectively create, manage, and track projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Primavera Cloud's interface and capabilities.
• Create, manage, and track project schedules effectively.
• Understand resource allocation and optimization techniques.
• Learn to identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level project managers who wish to create, execute, and manage forms in Jira effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Jira's core concepts, including issue types, workflows, and projects.
• Develop and manage custom fields to collect and organize data effectively.
• Optimize form-related processes for various project types and teams.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at project managers who wish to successfully manage a project with the help of Oracle Primavera P6 project management solution.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the Primavera P6 interface.
• Create and control a project schedule.
• Add, organize, and manage project activities.
• Track and monitor the progress of the entire project lifecycle.
• Create a custom project status report.

Solution Architecture and Project Management in Software Projects is a practical course that bridges the gap between project execution and architectural thinking, helping participants understand how architectural decisions align with project goals and delivery success.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to better understand the architectural aspects of software and systems projects and how they interact with project phases, methodologies, and business drivers.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how architecture fits within the project lifecycle and methodology choices.
• Differentiate between requirement types and translate them into design structures.
• Interpret and use modeling frameworks such as C4, UML®, and Archimate®.
• Participate in architectural discussions and review processes with confidence.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is part of the Data Scientist skill set (Domain: Advisory & Leadership) and is aimed at professionals who wish to build impactful communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills to thrive in data science or analytics teams.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply structured problem-solving and root cause analysis techniques.
• Communicate insights effectively through impactful storytelling and visualization.
• Lead change initiatives and influence stakeholders with confidence.
• Manage data-related projects using a clear and practical framework.

Agile Software Testing is a series of testing practice that provides feesback to software quality issues in a timely and continuous manner following the principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) refers to all developers in a team merging their work several times a day.

This two day training explores how Artificial Intelligence can support project managers and project teams across the entire project lifecycle. Participants learn how to use modern AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot to assist with project planning, risk management, stakeholder communication and reporting.

The course combines conceptual understanding with practical exercises. Participants will experiment with AI assisted workflows for common project management activities and learn how to design effective prompts, evaluate AI outputs and integrate AI tools into everyday project work. The training also addresses governance, responsible AI usage and practical adoption strategies so organisations can safely introduce AI into project environments.

Objective:

Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs.

This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.

Change management is a process aimed at effectively implementing change within an organization to achieve desired goals and adapt to changing environments. It requires understanding the reasons why change is necessary and identifying areas that need modification, as well as clearly defining the objectives and benefits that the change will bring. Change management is a dynamic process that demands flexibility, openness to feedback, and readiness to adjust strategies based on people's reactions and changing conditions. It is also crucial to recognize that changes are not always easy, which is why it is important to create a plan that takes into account both organizational goals and individual needs during the change process.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach for handling complex behaviors when developing software.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) walks participants through the deployment of a JIRA instance. Participants will learn the advanced usage of JIRA, JIRA installation, configuration, upgrading and migration, how to customize JIRA for their projects, add, manage and assign users, groups and project roles, configure and manage dashboards, define emails and notifications, apply JIRA security schemes, manage JIRA permissions, perform JIRA troubleshooting, install and customize JIRA service desk, set up a knowledge base, manage service desk users, and handle service requests collaboratively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Have an in-depth understanding of JIRA administration.
• Customize JIRA based on their own business needs.
• Define JIRA emails and notifications.
• Manage and assign users, groups, project roles.
• Manage JIRA permissions and security schemes.
• Perform JIRA troubleshooting.
• Deploy and customize JIRA service desk.

JIRA is a Java based web application that provides project and issue tracking for improving the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles behind Agile and Kanban
• Use Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira to fit the needs of their organization
• Perform basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Professional Agile Leadership Essentials is a 2 day workshop to equip leaders and managers of Agile teams along with their Product Owners and Scrum Masters to help their organizations change by providing participants with:

• An overview of what “Agile” is and why organizations need it to thrive in a changing world.
• The means to identify the potential opportunities, challenges and impacts of Agile in terms of business value and why this is so important to the next generation organization.
• An understanding of techniques to support teams to sustain long-term agility including the role that leaders play, shifts in thinking, and the relationship between complexity and empiricism.
• Ways to continue the development of the people to help them grow and prosper in an agile way of working. • Guidance of how to measure and guide agile product delivery.
• Discuss ways to scale agility across several teams within the organization while keeping them working together to deliver on a common vision.

Professional Agile Leadership Certification

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification assessment. PAL-E class participants who attempt the PAL I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to develop their capabilities in project planning, initiation, and delivery to achieve consistent and sustainable results.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop a deeper understanding of the principles governing effective and efficient project management processes.
• Build techniques for high-level capabilities to tackle challenges in project transitions and changes.
• Apply project management methodologies to daily tasks for improved outcomes and sustainable results.
• Appreciate realistic project management approaches to secure project success.

Through this 1-day workshop, participants will learn how to manage projects more efficiently, ensuring  the projects are delivered on time and within budget according to their scope statement. Participants will identify their strengths and weaknesses as Project Managers; gain skills in initiating, planning, executing, controlling and evaluating their projects.

Through this 3-day workshop, 21 hours, participants will learn how to manage projects more efficiently, ensuring the projects are delivered on time and within budget according to their scope statement. Participants will identify their strengths and weaknesses as Project Managers; gain skills in initiating, planning, executing, controlling and evaluating their projects.

Learn about project planning and related activities to ensure the successful management of your projects.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (onsite or online) is focused on the application of advanced Scrum principles, facilitation, coaching, leadership techniques, and agile product delivery strategies. It also prepares participants to take the Scrum Master II (PSM II) certification exam through targeted exercises and a sample test.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deepen their mastery of the Scrum framework and its principles.
• Effectively facilitate Scrum events and coach agile teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and deliver business value through agile practices.
• Apply leadership, mentoring, and self-management techniques in team settings.
• Confidently prepare for and pass the PSM II certification exam.

This two-day course teaches the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale.

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams. Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Agilist (SA). Associated Certification: SAFe Agilist (SA)

This two-day course is designed to help teams that are part of an Agile Release Train (ART) operate effectively within an Agile environment by applying frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Participants will learn how to function as Agile Teams, create and manage their backlogs, and successfully plan and execute iterations. The course also emphasizes understanding the team’s role within the ART and how to collaborate, plan, execute, and continuously improve alongside other teams.

The training prepares teams to participate in a Program Increment (PI), covering both Team-level and Program-level events, with a particular focus on upcoming PI planning sessions. Completion of the course also prepares participants for the certification exam to become a SAFe® Practitioner (SP).

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply SAFe principles to scale Lean and Agile practices across the organization.

• Understand their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and how it contributes to overall objectives.

• Recognize other teams within the train, including their roles and interdependencies.

• Plan and execute iterations effectively.

• Demonstrate delivered value and continuously improve processes.

• Participate in and contribute to Program Increment planning.

• Collaborate and integrate work with other teams within the Agile Release Train.

This course is very much structered towards a workshop approach to enable delegates an opportunity to practise the Scrum and Agile skills.