Agile Project Management Mastery_Scrum, Kanban, Lean_8 PDUs

Understand how project management coordinates scope requirements, budget, deadline, quality, and compliance to deliver successful projects.

Coordinate related projects through program management to reduce conflicts and risk and improve coordination and economies of scale, while portfolio management adds value by aligning initiatives with strategic goals.

clarify difference between operation and project, noting that operations are ongoing and projects are temporary with deadlines. show how they influence one another, from factory construction to order management software.

Define the project management office, its authority levels (supportive, controlling, directive), and agile PMOs. Emphasize a customer-centric, evolving PMO that blends structures to deliver value.

Identify stakeholders as anyone related to the project who affects it or is affected by it, including team members, the customer, functional managers, sponsors, and subcontractors.

Identify the project sponsor or initiator as the finance provider and main supporter who prevents unnecessary changes; they may be your boss, senior management, or an external customer in procurements.

Explore the project life cycle from feasibility to delivery, detailing planning, design, construction, and evaluation, and compare predictive and adaptive life cycles with phase gates, iterations, and releases.

Explore why agile delivers business value by linking features, benefits, and value to project goals and solutions. Understand the four Agile Manifesto values and their role in uncertain projects.

This lecture introduces the first Agile Manifesto value, prioritizing individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and explains that people drive project success in agile management.

Prioritize delivering working software over heavy documentation in agile projects, documenting only what adds value with just-in-time records like a simple product backlog and user stories.

prioritize customer collaboration over contract negotiation in agile projects by embracing open communication and flexible contracts, reducing formal change orders, and solving issues through collaboration.

Responding to change over following a plan, the fourth Agile Manifesto value. Predictive environments use an integrated change control process to assess impact on scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risks.

Master agile approaches by applying the Agile Manifesto's values and principles, adopting or tailoring practices such as Scrum to fit your project within the agile mindset for better results.

Learn lean agile project management by eliminating waste, amplifying learning, delivering early, empowering teams, optimizing the whole, and using visual management tools to improve customer value.

Explore Scrum within agile project management, detailing timeboxed sprints, product backlog, sprint backlog, daily Scrum, increments, reviews, retrospectives, and the roles of Product Owner, development team, and Scrum Master.

Highlight scrum transparency, continuous inspection and adaptation, artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, increments), and roles (product owner, development team, scrum master) with events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, retrospectives).

Identify the right lifecycle for your project by weighing uncertainty and risk using the Stacey model, and apply predictive, adaptive, or hybrid approaches for simple, complex, or chaotic environments.

Understand predictive life cycles with linear, sequential phases, fixed scope, and upfront planning to control costs and schedule while delivering the final product only at project end.

Explore the iterative life cycle, where prototyping and feedback refine design through repeated testing to deliver the best working version, even as dynamic requirements and stakeholder involvement evolve.

Explore the incremental life cycle, delivering working increments of the final product—analyze, design, develop, and test parts like login, catalog, cart, and payment, with early feedback.

Explore the agile life cycle as both iterative and incremental, delivering small, working parts and using feedback to refine with either time-boxed iterations or flow-based kanban limits.

Explore how hybrid life cycles blend predictive, agile, and other approaches to fit project environments, team attributes, and uncertainty, with practical examples.

learn how to select the most suitable project lifecycle using the agile suitability filter across the project, organizational, and team attributes, scoring 0–10 to map to agile, hybrid, or predictive.

Design a hybrid life cycle by blending agile and predictive elements to fit project risks and customer needs, enabling gradual transitions and on-site collaboration for verification and documentation.

Discover how to blend and tailor agile approaches by selecting and combining methods like Scrum and Kanban, guided by team experience, project size, and regulatory needs.

Explore tailored activities for agile projects across diverse scenarios, balancing attributes with predictive elements, implementing timebox adjustments, Kanban and Scrum options, and enhancing transparency, leadership, and team collaboration.

Examine a wide range of project management styles, from supportive and coaching to democratic and servant leadership, highlighting agile relevance and when to apply each approach.

Discover how servant leadership drives agile success by mentoring a cross-functional team of generalizing specialists. The project manager acts as a facilitator, removing obstacles and building trust with stakeholders.

Explore how a project manager acts as a servant leader in agile environments, guiding cross-functional teams, fostering direct communication, and ensuring agile processes enable rapid, collaborative delivery.

Organize agile teams as cross-functional, co-located units composed of t-shaped or m-shaped generalizing specialists. Boost direct communication, enable faster delivery, improve quality, and strengthen collaboration in a stable, focused environment.

Explore agile team structures, co-located, distributed, and dispersed, design caves and commons workspaces, address virtual collaboration, and foster cross-functional, self-organizing, and self-managing teams through remote pairing to reduce defects.

the lecture introduces agile project charter and team charter, outlining core components: vision, mission, success criteria, and intended workflow, and shows how kickoff meetings and working agreements align the team.

Explore the product backlog in agile project management, including stories, epics, MVP, product owner, prioritization with CD3, impact mapping, and backlog refinement to deliver value.

Use spikes in backlog refinement to time-box investigations, exploring options to reduce risk and increase reliability; classify them as architectural or risk-based spikes.

Plan the next two-week iteration by applying relative sizing to stories with planning poker, using Fibonacci or t shirt sizing, and considering team capacity.

Demonstrate completed working increments at the end of each sprint or when enough stories are ready, enabling early feedback from the product owner and informed backlog updates.

Master how sprint retrospectives capture retrospective findings to improve team performance, quality, and efficiency, then prioritize improvements and apply lessons learned to the next iteration using a lessons learned register.

Track team progress in iteration-based agile with burn down and burn up charts, velocity tracking, and story point forecasts to predict completion and adapt backlog.

Master earned value analysis by mapping key acronyms and terms such as pv, ev, ac, pac, and eac, and applying cost and schedule formulas to forecast project performance.

Explore the basic principles of earned value analysis through Pipe Corps Incorporated, using baselines, planned value, earned value, and actual cost to compute CV, SV, CPI, and SPI.

Apply earned value management in agile environments using burn up charts to compute SPI, SV, CPI, CV, and EAC from earned value, planned value, and actual cost.

Explore how agile PMOs provide on-demand support as collaborative consultants, acting as a center of excellence that works directly with teams across projects to deliver tailored templates, training, and tools.