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QRP International Belgium launched its Best Practices Blog on June 14, 2019 and it has already collected more than 1,000 views. A big thank you for your loyalty throughout this past year. Would you like to know the 10 topics that interested you most in 2019 on our Best Practices Blog? Here are the top posts of this year. The opportunity for you, we hope, is to (re)discover some of them:

1. Scrum Master vs Project Manager
2. Challenges and Opportunities in PMO: interview with Tom Van Medegael
3. What is a Project Manager?
4. ITIL 4 Foundation Exam
5. The Project Manager role in PRINCE2
6. Challenges and opportunities in IT Program Management: interview with Younes Idrissi Kaitouni
7. Challenges and Opportunities in Agile Change Management: interview with Melanie Franklin
8. Challenges and Opportunities in Project Management: interview with Dong R. Jeong
9. What is a Service Manager? The role and responsibilities
10. What is a Scrum Master: the role and responsibilities

The new year is already approaching and we will continue to offer you more and more relevant articles to best meet your expectations. If you have any questions that you would like us to answer, topics that are of particular interest to you, or if you would like to collaborate with us in writing blog posts, please contact us at belgium@qrpinternational.com. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that each new post is announced on our  QRP International BelgiumLinkedin page. You can also subscribe to our monthly if you prefer. We wish you all a very Happy New Year 2020.  

2020 has almost finished and has exceeded all of our expectations. Nobody could have predicted how our daily lives would change due to COVID-19. All professionals were suddenly put in a digital, remote working environment and organisations had to adapt their business models. Our working lives have changed immensely and nobody knows what ‘the new normal’ will look like or when we can expect this. For now, all we can do is look back on an intense 2020. We like to offer you the possibility to look back, together with QRP, by the means of 5 characterizing Q&A sessions with Belgian professionals. Read along with us!

Agility to the core, how Agile can drive an organisation

Liza Andersson works as Global Sales Operations Project Manager at FLIR. FLIR works Agile in the deeper sense of the word. FLIR does not just say they work Agile, agility is one of their core mind sets. It took FLIR just four days to shift from office work to remote work, for the entire international business. Curious how agility can help overcome obstacles? Read in the full blogpost here.

Project management should fit the organisation’s maturity

Shana Coenen works as Team Lead Pool Project Leaders, at the Federal Public Service Finance. She realizes that the biggest challenges in her network all regard the different skill levels of the PMO roles and project leaders. She realized that a ‘one size fits all’ training approach does not work and is now looking to offer a wider range of training possibilities and workshops and hopes to go as far as individual coaching and customized learning paths. Wonder what she says about the project's maturity? Read the full blogpost here.

Agile systems are great tools to build productivity on trust

Eralp Tezcan works as Scrum Master at Realdolmen-Inetum and cooperates daily with other Scrum Masters to work wonders in their teams. Eralp witnessed many organisations that started applying more agile frameworks due to external factors of the pas year. Now that almost all professionals work outside of environments potentially designed for control (offices), both the individual and organisations are learning to trust each other again. Agile systems offer great tools to build productivity on this regained trust. Read the full blogpost here.

Project management in the hospital sector

Maddy Silverans is a staff member of Process and Project Management of the Quality and Strategy department of AZ Sint-Maarten, a hospital. She opens up about Project Management in the Hospital sector, where, unless in many other sectors, project management is not the top priority. 2020 resulted in delay in many projects, because a delayed project definition automatically means a delayed start date of the project. Read the whole blogpost here.

How to create awareness of the positive impact of P3O structure

Davina Leysen works as Programme and Project officer at Belnet. At the time of the installment of the PMO, there were many skeptical reactions. However the trust of colleagues and the change in perceptions of the project management approach shifted the tables in Belnet. Davina shares how to get everybody involved to create a common approach. Read the full blogpost here.

QRP International is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 9001:2015 certification, an internationally recognised standard that ensures our services meet the needs of our customers through an effective quality management system.

Achieving excellence, Customer satisfaction and Continuous Improvement

We are dedicated to providing high Quality. Our Accredited Quality Management System enables us to maximize Quality provided in all of our activities – from the analysis of clients business needs to the tailoring of the services offered. The Quality Management System ensures that our services are supplied according to the foreseen specifications, in order to assure the constancy of the Quality, the full satisfaction of the Customers and the reference to our Core Values :

1. We do our utmost to make our clients happy
2. We enjoy working together as a team
3. We keep our word
4. We are committed to our professional development

QRP international decision to work towards ISO 9001:2015 accreditation demonstrates our commitment to continually improving our services. To become ISO 9001:2015 compliant, the QRP team underwent an extensive company-wide audit that included quality management system development, a management system documentation review, pre-audit, initial assessment. Non-conformances have not been identified along the assessment. ISO is one of the most rigorous and well-regarded standards in the world. QRP International were audited by Bureau Veritas, and were presented with their certificate in August 2019. QRP International Managing Director, Jacobus Groot says:

“As you know the first letter of our brand, the Q stands for Quality which means for us that we are focused on delivering services with an outstanding quality. It means also that we are constantly working on improving the quality of our services as we believe that can always improve the things we do. I am therefore very honoured and proud about our achievement of the ISO 9001 accreditation. It is a recognition of much work done in the last years. I was especially proud to learn that we had to make minimal changes to our systems in order to achieve the ISO accreditation as we have been working on improving our systems all the time. It is a great milestone for the development of our company and I am grateful to all staff contributing to this achievement!”

Fall is now: hot temperatures are going to leave, freshness is in the air and the trees are letting go their leaves..what does it mean? It means that it's the right time to  give a boost to your career by picking up the Project Management course that fits the best your needs! Have a look at this list of confirmed courses: AgilePM,  PRINCE2, Change Management, PMP, CAPM and Scrum.

 CONFIRMED COURSES FOR OCTOBER and NOVEMBER:

• • • • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 14-15-16 October 2019 (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 18-19-20 November (NL) Antwerpen → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 18-19-20 November  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 18-19-20 November (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 25-26-27 November 2019 (NL) Gent→ More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi  18-19-20-21-22 November 2019 (NL) Antwerpen→ More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi 25-26-27-28-29 November 2019 (NL) Gent→ More Info
      • Project Management - AgilePM Foundation  04-05-06 November 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management - AgilePM Combi 04-05-06-07-08 November 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management - AgilePM Practitioner 07-08 November 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- CAPM Exam Preparation 18-19-20-21-22 November 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PMP Exam Preparation 18-19-20-21-22 November 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Change Management - Change Management Foundation 18-19-20 November 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Change Management - Change Management Combi 18-19-20-21-22 November 2019
      • 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Scrum - all the Scrum courses are confirmed, have a look for dates/language/city!  → Certified Scrum Master & Certified Scrum Product Owner

Do your organization need to train several members? 

Get in touch with us to discuss the best solution for your team!

QRP International is about to launch new DevOps leader courses available in Bruxelles from September 2019!

The Digital Transformation and DevOps - discover how to lead DevOps and get DevOps Leader Certified!

We are living in an era characterized by fast change and automation, technology is pervading every aspect of life. To keep pace with this "digital revolution", IT professionals and DevelOpers have to continuously upgrade their technical skills in order to be able to deal with new services and procedures. When  speaking about "revolution" we imagine a change that pervades all the aspects of working activities so, focussing just on technical competencies represents a great underestimation of these changes. Revolution involves also cultural aspects and soft skills! The way of leading teams and departments is affected by digitalization; organizations that want to undertake the digitalization challenges need people capable of leading this change. Leadership is a transfunctional skill essential to enable any department of the organization to reach the common objectives and maintaining the outcomes during the time. A new figure capable of creating a digital transformation, applying new techniques that have been proven by enterprise organisations is needed. This figure is the DevOps Leader. Organization’s profitability and productivity depends on the team capability to develop products, the good Devops Leader enhance comunication through the department producing profitabilities.

Why enrolling for the DevOps Leader course, and what prerequisits are needed to be DevOps leader certified?

The importance of the DevOps Leader course is represented by its unique position in the market, it was developed by leveraging key DevOps leadership sources to extract real-life best practices in leading DevOps initiatives, such as the Spotify Squad Model, and has been designed to teach the key differences and emerging practices for cultural transformation through leadership in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment. Leadership is a pivotal skill for many function across the team that's why the DevOps Leader training  is addressed to everyone starting or leading a DevOps digital trasformation program, professionals involved in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, change agents, business managers and stakeholders. The only mandatory requirement  is having succeded the DevOps Fundation examination. The course aims to strenghten the 3 pivotal competencies of a real DevOps Leader:

• Inspirational Communication: this is the capability of a devops leader to share an appealing vision that inspires and motivates the Devops team to perform beyond expectations. The Leader encourages people to see the change as an opportunity.
• Intellectual stimulation: capability to challenge a team to ask new questions, challenge assumptions, take risks and generate ideas.
• Personal recognition: focus on the individual needs, acknowledge better performance and personally compliments for developments and achievements.

DevOps Leader open courses will be available from September 2019, in English in Brussels. To know more about the DevOps Leader course and to find your next date visit the DevOps Leader page!  

The warmest month of the year is coming soon; generally professionals feel left alone in big empty cities, dreaming about fleeing towards the mountains, hills or the seaside in the pursuit of freshness. But QRP International Belgium won't let you alone. We have a plenty of confirmed courses in August and September. ⚠ Very Important: all our courses take place in air conditioned rooms!!! Have a look at this list of confirmed courses: AgilePM, Open PM², PRINCE2, DevOps, ITIL 4, MoP, MSP, Change Management and Scrum.

 CONFIRMED COURSES FOR AUGUST and SEPTEMBER

• • • • Project Management- Open PM² Fundamental 5-6 August 2019 EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 5-6-7 August 2019 (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 19-20-21 August (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi  19-20-21-22-23 August (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 9-10-11 September 2019 (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi  9-10-11-12-13 September 2019 (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 9-10-11 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Foundation 16-17-18 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management- PRINCE2 Combi  16-17-18-19-20 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management - AgilePM Foundation  16-17-18 September 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Project Management - AgilePM Combi 16-17-18-19-20 September 2019  (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Programme Management- MSP Foundation: 26-27-28 August (EN) Brussels → More Info
      •  Portfolio Management - MoP Foundation 16-17-18 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Portfolio Management - MoP Combi 16-17-18-19-20 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Change Management - Change Management Foundation 9-10-11 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Change Management - Change Management Combi 19-10-11-12-12 September 2019 (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Service Management- ITIL 4 Foundation: 09-10-11 September (FR) Brussels → More Info
      • Service Management- DevOps Foundation: 23-24-25 September (EN) Brussels → More Info
      • Scrum - all the Scrum courses are confirmed, have a look for dates/language/city!  → Certified Scrum Master & Certified Scrum Product Owner

Do your organization need to train several members? 

Get in touch with us to discuss the best solution for your team!