Agile Project Management

Effective Project Managers need the tools to lead agile projects in the face of emergent, volatile, or shifting requirements. This course focuses on lightweight and flexible approaches designed to rapidly respond to changing business needs and dynamics. Explore how iterative and incremental project cycles can be used to deliver business value.

 

Learning Outcomes

• Define agile and describe how agile methodologies typically work to engage and energize teams.
• Describe what key characteristics make an organization environment or team ‘agile’.
• Create planning tools and techniques such as personas, user stories, and vision boxes and explain their value in an agile environment.
• Define the practices used by highly productive teams to deliver value to stakeholders.
• Explain how to execute an agile project and deal with challenges.
• Describe the role of the Project Leaders in guiding and motivating agile teams.

• Coursework is done independently and not based on a set schedule other than when assignments are due.

• Project Management Certificate