Agile Project Management

Learn how agile project management delivers requirements iteratively and incrementally, embracing change and contrasting with waterfall to enable flexible delivery, including hybrid approaches when needed.

Discover the benefits of agile project management, including flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and customer feedback, faster incremental delivery, improved quality, and transparent collaboration.

Trace the historical context of agile project management from the waterfall origin to Kanban and Scrum, and explore the Agile Manifesto, core values, and 12 principles.

Compare the Waterfall and Agile project management approaches, highlighting upfront planning versus iterative, incremental development. Explore differences in documentation, client involvement, delivery cadence, and cost of change.

Explore the agile manifesto, including its four values and twelve principles, shaped in 2001 by 17 senior members from diverse companies to improve software development over the Waterfall approach.

Explore the agile manifesto website to learn the four core values and twelve principles of agile software development, along with the authors, history, and available translations.

Prioritize individuals and interactions over processes and tools; deliver working software over comprehensive documentation; collaborate with customers over contract negotiation; and respond to change over following a plan.

Explore the Agile Manifesto: understand its four core values and 12 principles, focusing on delivering working software, welcoming changes, frequent delivery, face-to-face conversation, and continuous improvement.

In Scrum, the product backlog is a dynamic, prioritized source of work owned by the product owner and refined with stakeholders to meet business goals and user needs.

Learn to craft user stories from the user’s perspective using the as a user role format, and apply invest criteria with user personas.

Explore how epics group related user stories in agile product development, define acceptance criteria, and prioritize backlogs to deliver eco-conscious features like sustainability labels and personalized recommendations.

Agile project management uses time-boxed sprints of 1–4 weeks, combining planning, daily scrum, review, and retrospective to deliver a product increment and foster rapid feedback, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

During sprint planning, the scrum team assesses capacity, selects product backlog items, and creates a sprint backlog to establish a clear sprint goal and definition of done.

Explore the daily scrum, a 15-minute stand-up that synchronizes the team to plan 24 hours by answering what I did yesterday, what I will do today, and impediments I see.

Demonstrates a daily scrum with a cross-functional software team coordinating on a user authentication feature, addressing updates and impediments, and sharing API endpoints to keep the sprint goal on track.

Explore the sprint review, a scrum event that inspects the increment, gathers stakeholder feedback, and aligns the product backlog with sprint goals through open, timeboxed demonstrations.

Attend the sprint retrospective as the final scrum event to reflect on the last sprint, identify improvements across people, processes, and tools, and plan actionable changes for the next sprint.

Sign up for OpenAI and access ChatGPT, choosing between free GPT-3.5 and paid GPT-4 plus features like plugins and code interpreter. Learn to navigate settings, privacy, and crafting prompts.

Prompt engineering teaches communicating with ChatGPT through a clear objective and iterative refinement, including adopting personas like an SEO expert to craft optimized content.

Identify the audience to tailor prompts and provide context, using practical examples like a student email and a LinkedIn post for the energy sector, then iterate for brevity.

Discover how to engineer prompts with mood, tone, and length controls to craft friendly, professional emails, timely meetings, and tailored responses in agile project management.

Learn to write and refine a product backlog with ChatGPT by crafting user stories for an e-commerce site, using the as a user I want format and iterating for value.

Use ChatGPT to assign value and effort estimates to user story in a product backlog, with dollar signs indicating value to guide prioritization and sequencing. Export table and refine backlog.

Improve an existing e-commerce product backlog by using ChatGPT to refine user stories, adjust value and effort estimates, and prioritize stories with dependencies for agile project management.