
Intro to Agile Project Management
Course Specifications
Course length: 1 day(s)
Contact Hours: 8.0
PDUs: 8.0
Course Description
You are familiar with the concepts of traditional project management and may have used the concepts to manage multiple projects. For projects in which the requirements are continuously changing, you may need a more proactive project management approach. In this course, you will use Agile project management.
Course Objective:
You will identify the Agile project management principles and use Scrum to manage projects.
Target Student:
This course is intended for Project Managers, Program Managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently manage projects that experience frequent changes in user requirements.
Prerequisites:
A good understanding or work background in project management.
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Attendees receive the following:
Course workbook
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
– describe Agile project management.
– describe the Scrum methodology used to manage a project.
– manage projects using the Scrum methodology.
– understand the critical success factors to implement Agile.
Agenda: Introduction to Agile Project Management
Course Content
Lesson 1: About Agile
Lesson 2: Agile Methodologies
Lunch
Lesson 3: Project Justification
Lesson 4: Teams and Team Space
Lesson 5: Agile Planning
Lesson 6: Working with Agile
Lesson 7: Coaching with Agile