Agile Project Management

Learn to lead Agile projects and deliver what your customers want faster and better than ever before.

In this course, you will learn to improve your professional skills-a key ingredient to Agile success.

Today's teams require vastly different leadership and management skills from Project Managers to truly achieve success. You can't simply tell everyone what to do. Instead, you need to be a strong coach, a change agent, and a very effective communicator. Agile is no longer a grassroots movement to change software development. PMI® is embracing Agile, recognizing the significant positive impact it has had on delivering better results for customers.

This class is a stimulating combination of class interaction, active learning exercises, and group collaboration. Each is designed to allow you to learn through practice so you can readily apply what you have learned in your own workplace right away. Every instructor has been in the trenches as a project manager with Agile teams and will bring that experience to class.

What You'll Learn

• Embrace a model of continuous planning over simply following a plan
• Transform your project management style from "command and control" to "empower and inspire"
• Create a cadence for the team and eliminate process distractions for a dramatic boost in efficiency
• Establish credible and achievable estimates using agile estimating techniques
• Communicate more transparently and reduce interruptions to your team
• Rapidly build trust with your customers through frequent and effective collaboration

Who Needs to Attend

• Project managers
• Analysts, developers, programmers, testers
• IT managers/directors
• Software engineers, architects, and managers
• Testing managers and leaders

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of and experience with basic project management skills

Follow-On Courses

• Agile Boot Camp: An Immersive Introduction
• Certified Scrum Developer Workshop