
Learn Agile project management foundations, the benefits and key elements, and how to implement Agile methods to deliver faster while meeting stakeholders' expectations.
Agile project management delivers work in short sprints, enabling incremental delivery and early customer feedback. It contrasts with waterfall by emphasizing transparency, collaboration, and fast value.
Explore how agile project management delivers customer value by meeting expectations and speeding delivery, and reflect on your comfort level to adapt agile concepts to your work.
Discover the three agile elements you can implement today—plan, deliver, learn—to accelerate work and add value to your organization, with each component explored in upcoming lectures.
Agile planning unfolds continuously by mapping a vision and incremental roadmap, then delivering, learning from feedback, and re-planning within each sprint.
Deliver small increments of the finished product to gather immediate feedback and excite the customer with usable progress. Use feedback to stay on track and make early course corrections.
Deliver with concise daily standups: report completed work, planned tasks, and impediments in 15 minutes to stay focused and deliver value, illustrated by a winery QR code example.
Learn how to implement a 15-minute standup with your boss to save time, stay aligned, and share three bullets: accomplishments, next steps, and blockers, with a twice weekly cadence.
Seeing work flows clearly, a kanban board visualizes each to-do across stages, enabling low-tech or digital tools and 15-minute daily stand-ups to boost collaboration and reduce catch-up meetings.
Agile delivers quick feedback through short sprints, enabling early course corrections. Use retrospectives like the 4Ls assessment to explore what worked, learned, lacked, and longed for.
Present your idea by outlining an agile approach: deliver work in small increments, share a prototype for real-time feedback, and hold 15-minute updates to win management buy-in and align teams.
Discover how agile enables mid-course changes through small deliveries and fast feedback, and learn five practical hacks—now-next-later planning, sprints, incremental delivery, daily huddles, and a Kanban board.
Evaluate when to use agile by cultivating the right mindset and securing leadership support, then apply agile techniques to improve collaboration, handle changes, and deliver customer value.
Create an agile plan for your next project by selecting three agile elements from the participant resource guide, share in the q&a for feedback, and review with the instructor.
Assess your agility with a quick self-assessment, place your comfort level on the worksheet, and share reflections in the course discussion.
Gain practical agile techniques and tips you can implement immediately, while the participant resource guide provides terms, books, and credential information for pursuing certified agile credentials, not exam prep.
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Are you an accidental project manager who has found yourself taking on project management roles without formal training? Perhaps you want to learn ways to better manage your time and deliver what was promised. You may have even heard about this methodology called Agile that is all the rave. Yet, you're tired of endless research on the Internet for answers to your questions on what Agile is all about. Seems like everyone has an opinion.
In this course, I will provide the clear cut definition of Agile and provide you with tips and hacks that you can apply and practice right away in your organization. This course is meant to empower you to grow your project management skills and have a little fun along the way!
In this course, you will learn to:
Implement and apply Agile PM techniques to your work immediately
Identify when it’s appropriate to apply Agile
Effectively communicate and engage with stakeholders to make sure you’re meeting their needs
Deliver results that add value to the org
Integrate changes so projects reflect the stakeholders’ needs
Agile has been trending in the project management space as a more preferred way to completing projects. This popular methodology incorporates a specific set of tools and techniques that allow for a lot more flexibility and agility on your projects.
In this interactive course, participants will have access to a fillable PDF participant resource guide with activities and reflection questions. In addition, a short assignment is incorporated into the course to help you think through the value of Agile in your project work.
Sure, there are a TON of courses on Agile that you can watch. How many of them provide a plain and simple explanation of Agile in a way that allows you to immediately understand and put it into practice? If you are still searching, look no further as I have put together a to-the-point course that uses minimal jargon and makes the content relatable to YOU.
Enroll today to enhance your Agile project management know-how and better deliver your projects to meet the needs of your customers—internally and externally.
See you in the course!