Courses
Sustainable Projects, Scrum and SAFe® with certification
Learn how to implement sustainability with Scrum, SAFe® in projects
Get a deeper understanding of the nature of sustainability and how to integrate this into the initiatives.
As awareness of environmental and climate issues increases and legislation in the area is sharpened, it is imperative that organisations adopt sustainable ambitions if they wish to remain competitive and attractive.
Such ambitions open new opportunities to create innovative business models, risk reduction and promote responsible investments.
With our approach you will learn how best to create the sustainability change, your organisation’s strategy lends itself to.
This course was designed especially for experienced professionals within projects or product development. Here you will learn how to transition from waterfall /Agile projects to sustainable projects. From Scum to sustainable Scrum and from SAFe® to sustainable SAFe®.
Join us and become a force for future sustainable development!
- 2-day Courses
- Copenhagen, Aarhus & Online
- Official Certificate
- 12.999 DKK ex VAT
- The course is included in the Financial Competence Pool. Participants from the financial sector can participate without the employee or employer having to pay for it.
Scheduled Courses
- 2.-3. December 2024 (Aarhus - English)
- 6.-7. January 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
- 3.-4. March 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
- 26.-27. May 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
Sara Buhl, Strategic Business Advisor at BETTERBOX and Change Manager
About the course
Do you want to be one of the first to learn how to incorporate sustainability into your agile method? It can be added to e.g. Scrum, Agile Project Management, SAFe, Scrum@scale or LeSS.
We have further developed our agile approach and incorporated the most important standard frameworks from the UN, such as Sign Based Targets. Now, you have the opportunity to participate in this 2-day course, which is a sustainability add-on. When you have completed this course, you will be able to implement sustainability into your agile product development/projects and report your results in the relevant places.
Contents
At the course we work with:
- Why sustainability is relevant.
- The key sustainability-related legislation.
- The information available at the UN among others.
- How to facilitate value creation in regard to sustainability.
- Which agile frameworks are designed to do what, and how they can coexist.
- The steps where you will benefit from including sustainability.
- How and where you can visualize your contribution to sustainability.
Benefits for the course participant
After completing the course each participant will be able to:
- Contribute to sustainability through your agile initiatives.
- Deliver sustainable initiatives on time – or ahead of schedule.
- Frame and structure sustainable agile initiatives.
- Create structured data that can be used quickly and efficiently to adjust the scope. All in collaboration with the client, the supplier, the steering group, and others influencing the value creation in the width of the sustainability.
- Ensure learning during the entirety of the project.
- Create transparency in the project / the product development.
- Make sure that the project / the product development is under control.
- Make sure that the sustainability impact can be reported.
Benefits for the company
- Opportunity to make your agile initiatives sustainable.
- Better chance of complying with the sustainability legislation in force.
- Make visible the value of sustainability that your agile initiatives create by reporting to, e.g. the UN.
- Transparency in how your company wishes to contribute to sustainability.
- Attracting and retaining those employees, who find sustainability important.
- New employees become adept at implementing project deliverables.
- Faster completion by reduced re-work.
- Value creation early in the planning phase. This provides the company with the flexibility to redeploy employees if priorities change.
- A joint project/product development approach to be used across the company.
Sustainable Agile Community
After the course you will become member of the Sustainable Agile Community, where you will have the opportunity to participate in our Sustainable network arrangements, workshops in Denmark, access to training videos and will be invited to the most influential sustainability and web 3.0 conferences, e.g. World Economic Forum, FN General Assembly, SXSW, Cannes Lions and Consensus. Here you will have the opportunity to speak and network. In this manner, the community will strengthen your sustainability network locally and globally in the World as we know it today and in web 3.0.
Target group
The course is aimed at Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum teams, project managers, Release Train Engineers, sustainability employees, team leaders, project participants, PMO-members, mid-level managers, and others, who wish to learn how to deliver sustainable impact in agile settings.
It is a prerequisite that you have an agile certification and that your understanding is up-to-date regarding minimum one agile approach like e.g. Scrum, Agile Project management, SAFe®, Scrum@Scale or LeSS.
Certification
This course leads to the certification Sustainable Agile, which is included in the price.
Brush-up or introduction?
Do you need a brush-up on Agile Project Management? Then use our videos, which cover the entire course. You can choose between a Danish version and an English. All texts are in English. Here you can see a couple of the videos. Video access is DKK 249 per month per person or DKK 2,490 a year plus VAT.
Price and duration
As part of the course Sustainability for certified agile specialists, you will get:
- Two day course, where you can participate physically or online.
- The certification Sustainable Agile.
- Presentation and exercises for the course.
- Prisen inkluderer et års medlemskab af vores Sustainable Agile Community.
The price is DKK 14.900 per participant.
If you want an additional video access, then the monthly cos twill be DKK 249 per month per person or DKK 2490 annually plus VAT.
All courses are conducted by using blended learning; therefore, you can choose to either participate in person in Copenhagen or online.
Instructors
Lasse Borris Sørensen
Lasse Borris Sørensen is Sustainability Agile Coach & CEO at Plan A ApS. Lasse runs the environment around Sustainable Agile Projects as well as the Danish division for Green Project Management®. Lasse has spent more than 20,000 hours working on agile projects and composing project models for several big companies. Lasse has taught more than 3,000 people and certified more than 500 in agile project management.
Ann Rosenberg
Ann Rosenberg is a co-founder of the UN’s SDG Ambition and has 25 years of experience in sustainability in the business world. Ann is an Executive Sustainability Tech Advisor web 2.0 and 3.0 (Blockchain, metaverse, DAO og NFT), Board Member, writer, and TED Talk speaker. Ann is dedicated to spreading the UN’s SDGs.
Additionally, one or two external speakers will contribute with their take on sustainability in their part of the world.
Place
Copenhagen. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
Registration
Send an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info or call +45 21 43 43 22.
You can read more on www.SustainableAgileProjects.com.
Company course
PLAN A OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have several employees, who need our 2-day course in Sustainability for agile specialists? Then company courses may be just your thing.
We tailor company courses according to your needs. Contact us for further information:
Call +45 21 43 43 22 or email Info@SustainableProjects.info
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info. If we do not receive your written cancellation at Info@SustainableProjects.info, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
About the course
Do you want to be one of the first to learn how to incorporate sustainability into your agile method? It can be added to e.g. Scrum, Agile Project Management, SAFe, Scrum@scale or LeSS.
We have further developed our agile approach and incorporated the most important standard frameworks from the UN, such as Sign Based Targets. Now, you have the opportunity to participate in this 2-day course, which is a sustainability add-on. When you have completed this course, you will be able to implement sustainability into your agile product development / projects and report your results in the relevant places.
Contents
At the course we work with:
- Why sustainability is relevant.
- The key sustainability-related legislation.
- The information available at the UN among others.
- How to facilitate value creation in regard to sustainability.
- Which agile frameworks are designed to do what, and how they can coexist.
- The steps where you will benefit from including sustainability.
- How and where you can visualize your contribution to sustainability.
Benefits for the course participant
After completing the course each participant will be able to:
- Contribute to sustainability through your agile initiatives.
- Deliver sustainable initiatives on time – or ahead of schedule.
- Frame and structure sustainable agile initiatives.
- Create structured data that can be used quickly and efficiently to adjust the scope. All in collaboration with the client, the supplier, the steering group, and others influencing the value creation in the width of the sustainability.
- Ensure learning during the entirety of the project.
- Create transparency in the project / the product development.
- Make sure that the project / the product development is under control.
- Make sure that the sustainability impact can be reported.
Benefits for the company
- Opportunity to make your agile initiatives sustainable.
- Better chance of complying with the sustainability legislation in force.
- Make visible the value of sustainability that your agile initiatives create by reporting to, e.g. the UN.
- Transparency in how your company wishes to contribute to sustainability.
- Attracting and retaining those employees, who find sustainability important.
- New employees become adept at implementing project deliverables.
- Faster completion by reduced re-work.
- Value creation early in the planning phase. This provides the company with the flexibility to redeploy employees if priorities change.
- A joint project/product development approach to be used across the company.
Sustainable Agile Community
After the course you will become member of the Sustainable Agile Community, where you will have the opportunity to participate in our Sustainable network arrangements, workshops in Denmark, access to training videos and will be invited to the most influential sustainability and web 3.0 conferences, e.g. World Economic Forum, FN General Assembly, SXSW, Cannes Lions and Consensus. Here you will have the opportunity to speak and network. In this manner, the community will strengthen your sustainability network locally and globally in the World as we know it today and in web 3.0.
Target group
The course is aimed at Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum teams, project managers, Release Train Engineers, sustainability employees, team leaders, project participants, PMO-members, mid-level managers, and others, who wish to learn how to deliver sustainable impact in agile settings.
It is a prerequisite that you have an agile certification and that your understanding is up-to-date regarding minimum one agile approach like e.g. Scrum, Agile Project management, SAFe®, Scrum@Scale or LeSS.
Certification
This course leads to the certification Sustainable Agile, which is included in the price.
Brush-up or introduction?
Do you need a brush-up on Agile Project Management? Then use our videos, which cover the entire course. You can choose between a Danish version and an English. All texts are in English. Here you can see a couple of the videos. Video access is DKK 249 per month per person or DKK 2,490 a year plus VAT.
Price and duration
As part of the course Sustainability for certified agile specialists, you will get:
- Two day course, where you can participate physically or online.
- The certification Sustainable Agile.
- Presentation and exercises for the course.
- Prisen inkluderer et års medlemskab af vores Sustainable Agile Community.
The price is DKK 14.900 per participant.
If you want an additional video access, then the monthly cos twill be DKK 249 per month per person or DKK 2490 annually plus VAT.
All courses are conducted by using blended learning; therefore, you can choose to either participate in person in Copenhagen or online.
Instructors
Lasse Borris Sørensen
Lasse Borris Sørensen is Sustainability Agile Coach & CEO at Plan A ApS. Lasse runs the environment around Sustainable Agile Projects as well as the Danish division for Green Project Management®. Lasse has spent more than 20,000 hours working on agile projects and composing project models for several big companies. Lasse has taught more than 3,000 people and certified more than 500 in agile project management.
Ann Rosenberg
Ann Rosenberg is a co-founder of the UN’s SDG Ambition and has 25 years of experience in sustainability in the business world. Ann is an Executive Sustainability Tech Advisor web 2.0 and 3.0 (Blockchain, metaverse, DAO og NFT), Board Member, writer, and TED Talk speaker. Ann is dedicated to spreading the UN’s SDGs.
Additionally, one or two external speakers will contribute with their take on sustainability in their part of the world.
Place
Copenhagen. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
Registration
Send an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info or call +45 21 43 43 22.
You can read more on www.SustainableAgileProjects.com.
Company course
PLAN A OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have several employees, who need our 2-day course in Sustainability for agile specialists? Then company courses may be just your thing.
We tailor company courses according to your needs. Contact us for further information:
Call +45 21 43 43 22 or email Info@SustainableProjects.info
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info. If we do not receive your written cancellation at Info@SustainableProjects.info, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
About the course
Content
At the course we work with:
- What is sustainability and why is it relevant?
- How the legislation increases the need for reporting on sustainability. How it increases the need to understand sustainability impacts throughout any supply chain or investment opportunity and how to prepare for its implementation.
- The methodological ‘plug-in’, which makes it possible to move from traditional project management or product development – Agile or not – into their sustainable versions. Our ambition is to make the ‘plug-in’ as efficient and manageable as possible.
- How to realize the sustainability ambitions of your organisation – project by project.
- How to determine which effect and which deliverables will result from various projects or product development initiatives.
- How to promote and communicate the sustainability gains inherent in your project/product development.
We do not cover basic disciplines in project implementation nor product development.
Benefit to the participant
- The urgency of sustainable projects. A greater understanding of the timeliness of sustainable projects and product development, as the legislation has already increased the need for them.
- The ability to implement sustainability in projects and product development. A deeper understanding of the nature of sustainability and how to integrate this into the initiatives.
- Learning how best to report on the sustainability impacts of a project.
- From business drivers to project/product impact. Knowledge of how business drivers impact strategy and how projects and product development can be focussed to deliver the desired impact. E.g., traditional earning potential combined with CO2-reduction, equality, or any other sustainability goal in the deliverables, at investment candidates and/or throughout the supply chain.
- The ability to adapt quickly and efficiently. Clarification of how to frame the project/product development and how to react when a deliverable takes longer to complete than estimated.
- Sustainable agility ensures market adaptability. Enhanced adaptability to adopt to a changing market by integrating sustainability and Agile project management, allowing employees to adjust deliverables based on market conditions or investor expectations.
Benefits to the organisation
- Ability to convert sustainability ambitions into impact. The course will give the participant a thorough understanding of sustainability and how to systematically deliver the required sustainability impact in projects and product development.
- Improve sustainability numbers. This course will teach the employee how to activate and optimise the sustainability impact in projects and product development already scheduled.
- Increased impact in sustainability initiatives and in “normal”. The participant will learn how to maximise the sustainability impact in both projects and product development designed to make a sustainability impact – as well as in all your “normal” initiatives.
- Green working processes. After the course, the participant will understand how to work in a sustainable manner during both projects and product development.
- Balanced impact focus. The participant will understand how your organisation can divide efforts between Prosperity, People, Planet, Peace, and Partnerships in a data driven and highly adaptable manner.
- Enhanced adaptability to meet the evolving needs of a dynamic market. By integrating sustainability and Agile project management, employees can adeptly adjust project deliverables to evolving market conditions, ensuring competitiveness and appealing to sustainability-focused investors.
Target Audience
This course is relevant for Project Managers, Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Scrum Teams, Release Train Engineers, and those who work in sustainability, team leaders, project participants, PMO members, middle management, and anyone else who are interested in how to ensure sustainable dividends in projects and product development.
Having a certification and updated knowledge of project management (Agile or Waterfall) or product development (e.g. Scrum, SAFe®, Scrum@Scale of LeSS) is a requirement to participation.
Certification
This course prepares you for the Sustainable Agile Certification, which is included in the cost.
Teaching Format
Before starting the course, we ask you to ensure that your knowledge of project management or product development is up to date.
We use state-of-the-art conference equipment to ensure benefit to online participants. All courses may be followed online. However, certification does require physical attendance.
Experienced or new user?
Do you need a refresher or are you new to Agile Project Management? Feel free to use our video materials which cover all aspects of the Agile method. The spoken word, written material and certification are in English.
Price and Duration
Included in the price:
- A two-day course.
- The Sustainable Agile certification.
- Teaching materials, exercises etc.
The price pr. participant is DKK 12,999 ex VAT.
Should you wish an introduction/refresher to our course in Agile Project Management, it is possible to purchase video access for a period of up to 2 months before and after the course for DKK 999 or DKK 2,490 pr. annum (prices are pr. pax and not including VAT).
Instructors
Lasse Borris Sørensen
Lasse Borris Sørensen is Sustainability Project Coach & CEO at Plan A ApS. Lasse spearheads Sustainable Agile Project community as well as the Danish branch of Green Project Management®. Lasse has worked with Sustainable Agile projects and Agile projects as well as Scrum for more than 20.000 hours and has implemented Agile project models in several major companies. Lasse has taught 3000+ people and has certified 800+ in (Sustainable) Agile project management.
Ann Rosenberg
Ann Rosenberg is a co-founder of the UN SDG Ambition and has 25 years of experience in sustainability in the business world. Ann is an Executive Sustainability Tech Advisor web 2.0 and 3.0 (Blockchain, metaverse, DAO og NFT), Board Member, writer, and TEDx-Talk speaker. Ann is dedicated to expanding the knowledge of the UN SDGs.
Furthermore, there will be an external presenter, who will speak about the sustainability needs in his/her part of the world. Thus, introducing a more diverse and comprehensive perspective.
Location
Copenhagen, Aarhus & Online. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
Some courses are held at Edison, Holmbladsgade 133, 2300 Copenhagen S.
More info at the registration form.
Registration
Fill out our form here or call us at +45 21 43 43 22.
Company course
PLAN A OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have several employees, who need our 2-day course in Sustainability for agile specialists? Then company courses may be just your thing.
We tailor company courses according to your needs. Contact us for further information:
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info. If we do not receive your written cancellation at Info@SustainableProjects.info, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
Register and become certified in
Sustainable Projects, Scrum and SAFe®
- Copenhagen. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
- 2.-3. December 2024 (Aarhus - English)
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6.-7. January 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
Edison, Holmbladsgade 133, 2300 Copenhagen S - 3.-4. March 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
- 26.-27. May 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
- 23.-24. June 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
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6.-7. August 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
Edison, Holmbladsgade 133, 2300 Copenhagen S - 29.-30. September 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
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30.-31. October 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
Edison, Holmbladsgade 133, 2300 Copenhagen S - 3.-4. November 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
- 15.-16. December 2025 (Copenhagen & Online)
About the course
Make a difference and increase motivation with Green Project Management®. Learn how social aspects and environmental considerations can become a part of your projects.
How to create value and sustainable development in your projects.
Course description
Green Project Management® (GPM®) is a thorough disquisition of the sustainable project method. You will learn methods, acquire tools and receive insights into how you can add a green focus to your projects.
The method is developed by the organisation Green Project Management®, which is a global leader within sustainable project management.
GPM® will teach you to include relevant aspects of sustainability in your way of conducting project management. You will get concrete tools and methods to incorporate into your current project approach.
During the course we will work with:
- Identifying and adding sustainable principles and elements to projects.
- In-depth knowledge of techniques and methods for project management – as well as how you can affect the life cycle of the product during the process.
- Principles for sustainability.
- The advantages of using the “Projects Integrating Sustainable Methods”, PRiSM™, project life cycle.
- Looking at the project, organisation, and the way you are as a project manager from a whole new perspective.
Target group
The course is aimed at project managers, team leaders, project participants, PMO-members, mid-level managers, and others, who wish to learn how to carry through sustainable projects.
No qualifications are needed to participate in the course.
Benefits
After completing the course each participant will be able to:
- Describe the importance and results of working with sustainability.
- Understand the PRiSM™ project life cycle.
- Write an efficient business case.
- Do a P5 impact assessment (P5IA).
- Be a part of and negotiate with project stakeholders.
- Evaluate potential suppliers based on sustainability criteria.
- Document the project’s criteria for success.
Certification
The course prepares you for the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic from Green Project Management®.
Teaching method
There will be 2-4 hours’ worth of reading material in preparation for the course.
The spoken word is Danish, but the written material and certification are in English.
During the course, we will conduct a number of group assignments, which will give you ample opportunity to discuss the material and thereby increase your learning.
Price and duration
With the course Green Project Management® you get:
- A three-day course, where it is possible to participate either in person or online. Please state your preference during registration.
- Central documents that you can use directly in your projects.
- Presentation material, exercises, etc. to the course.
- Preparation material for the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic.
The price is DKK 16,500 ex VAT and excluding the certification GPM-b™ – Certified Green Project Manager — Basic. The certification is USD 199.
Instructor
Lasse Borris Sørensen is the course instructor. Lasse has specialised in project method and is the founder of Plan A ApS.
Lasse is driving Green Project Management® in Denmark and is leader of sustainable agile projects. He has spent more than 20,000 hours working on projects and among other things composed project models for several big companies. Finally, Lasse has taught more than 3,000 people and certified more than 500.
Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc, Executive Sustainability Tech and Board Advisor, co-founder and author of UN’s SDG Ambition.
Place
Copenhagen. The exact address will be announced well before the course starts.
Register by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info
Company course
PLAN A OFFER COURSES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
Do you have several employees, who need qualifications within Green Project Management? Or do you wish to create a common understanding of sustainable focus within your company? Then company courses may be just your thing.
We tailor company courses according to your needs. Contact us for further information:
Call +45 21 43 43 22 or email Info@SustainableProjects.info
Small print
If for some reason you are not able to participate in the course, you are more than welcome to give your spot to a colleague. Simply let us know by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info.
If you cancel your registration four weeks or less before the course starts, 50% of the fee plus VAT will be charged. If you cancel your registration two weeks or less before the course starts, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
Cancellation must be done in writing by sending an email to Info@SustainableProjects.info. If we do not receive your written cancellation at Info@SustainableProjects.info, the full fee plus VAT will be charged.
We reserve the right to turn away rival companies and persons at our courses and other events.
Copenhagen or Online
Sustainable Scrum, SAFe® and Projects
Provider: Plan A ApS – Trainer: Lasse Borris Sørensen and Ann Rosenberg.
Sustainability
The 17 SDGs of the UN were designed to help nations increase sustainability. To ensure that corporations are also able to contribute to this goal the UN has established SDG Ambition. As projects most often take place within an organisation, we use SDG Ambition as one of our primary frameworks for sustainability together with ESG.
Traditionally the most important considerations in undertaking a project or a product development have been financial. Now, the introduction of the UN sustainability goals has expanded these considerations to include environmental, social, financial, partnerships and peace goals.
It is no longer enough to consider the final delivery day as the end of the focus. A large part of the environmental impact is generated by the products delivered. The environmental focus of this course makes it clear that a much more inclusive definition of value, as well as a longer time horizon, is needed.
This wider understanding of impact and the increased time frame increases the number of contributing variables considerably. It is therefore crucial, that the used approach can adapt quickly and efficiently.
Agile Frameworks and Waterfall
This is precisely what Agile frameworks are designed to do. Therefore, we recommend an agile approach like Scrum, Agile Projects or SAFe® for projects and product development. The concept of this course can be used in combination with the above-mentioned agile frameworks as well as waterfall projects.
