
This lesson provides an introduction to the course and an overview of the course objectives
Many Agile practices were designed around simple, small, single-team Agile projects and scaling Agile to an enterprise level can be difficult. This lecture is one of two lectures that will go into the different considerations required to scale Agile to an enterprise level. This lecture is focused on differences in Agile implementation practices that may be encountered at an enterprise level.
Many Agile practices were designed around simple, small, single-team Agile projects and scaling Agile to an enterprise level can be difficult. This lecture is the second of two lectures that will go into the different considerations required to scale Agile to an enterprise level. This lecture is focused on the Agile Manifesto valeus and principles and how those values and principles may need to be interpreted somewhat differently in the context of an enterprise-level Agile implementation.
An effective system of project governance is essential to provide oversight over projects to ensure that they effectively fulfill customer needs and manage the company's business interests. This lecture is designed to help project managers understand how to develop and apply effective project governance systems.
This lesson shows an example of a Project Governance Model for a large, enterprise-level project.
Examine how a PMO functions in an agile environment, shifting from control to facilitation, with direct business direction via a product owner and flexible portfolio management, reporting, standards, and resources.
Explore business integration challenges across management layers, funding allocation, and portfolio tracking, and apply lean startup ideas—hypotheses, iterative development, and customer feedback—to align strategy with agile delivery.
Explore the challenges of scaling Scrum for multiple team projects and compare models like Scrum-of-Scrums, LeSS, and LeSS Huge. Analyze development and business integration dimensions with a real-world case study.
Scale scrum across multiple teams with scrum-of-scrums, providing a basic level of development coordination and integration. Rotate representatives and have them answer four questions, not intended as project management.
Scale scrum across multiple teams with LeSS, featuring a single product backlog, joint sprint planning and reviews, and feature-based work allocation to maximize customer value and integration.
Learn how the Scrum at Scale framework extends Scrum for large enterprises, featuring a product owner cycle, a Scrum master cycle, and an executive action team guiding agile transformation.
Explore a large-scale scrum case using LeSS, with an enterprise backlog, 21 product owners, 400+ developers, synchronized time boxes, and continuous integration.
Explore the scaled agile framework SAFe, its three levels—portfolio, program, and team—along with four variations (Portfolio SAFe, Essential SAFe, Large Solution SAFe, Full SAFe) and their focuses for enterprise transformation.
The team level of the Scaled Agile Framework builds on Scrum to coordinate cross-functional teams via an agile release train, planning program increments and aligning around capabilities or subsystems.
Discover how the Scaled Agile Framework's program level coordinates multiple teams through vision, roadmap, and release management to achieve broad business goals.
Learn how the Scaled Agile Framework portfolio level aligns investments with business strategy, using investment themes, epics, architectural runway, portfolio vision and backlog, and Kanban to deliver measurable value.
Discover the disciplined agile delivery framework, a hybrid approach extending scrum with practices from agile modeling, extreme programming, kanban, and lean methods, and its enterprise-level inception, construction, and transition phases.
Explore Disciplined Agile Delivery variations for enterprise use, including disciplined DevOps, IT, and enterprise models, comparing with Scaled Agile Framework and emphasizing solution delivery and lean practices.
Analyze Valpak’s enterprise-level agile transformation using the Scaled Agile Framework. Learn how senior support, an agile leader, and coaching enable faster time to market, frequent value, and self-managing teams.
Ideally, all aspects of a business (people, process, systems, tools, etc.) should be well-aligned and well-integrated around a common objective of delivering value to the customers that the business is designed to serve. That should define the context for integrating an Agile Project Management approach with the business. The lesson includes a self-assessment tool in the supplementary materials to help you evaluate the effectiveness of your current alignment and how it might be impacted by an Agile Project Management approach.
This lecture contains a self-assessment tool that can be used to evaluate a company's value disciplines and alignment and how it might be impacted by an Agile Project Management implementation.
Before embarking on an enterprise-level Agile transformation, it's important to clearly define what you want to get out of it. This lesson is focused on the potential benefits of an Agile Project Management approach to help you better identify and prioritize exactly what you expect to get out of an Agile Project Management approach. The importance of the potential benefits could be different in each organization and the lesson includes a self-assessment tool in the supplementary materials to help you evaluate how important each of the benefits is to your organization.
This lecture contains a self-assessment tool that can be used to in order to better define and prioritize the expected benefits your company expects to receive from an Agile Project Management implementation.
Learn how Kotter's eight change-management errors apply to enterprise-level agile transformations, from creating urgency and a guiding vision to short-term wins and culture anchoring.
Explore a real-world enterprise‑level agile case study at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, replacing legacy systems with a service‑oriented architecture, using hybrid governance, a joint PMO, and Scrum‑of‑Scrums coordination.
Develop an enterprise-level agile implementation plan by identifying functions and roles, separating portfolio planning from project implementation, aligning culture, strategy, and management levels, and using a practical template.
Choose an implementation strategy that balances control with agile and adaptive approaches to maximize business value. Define enterprise roles, including PMO guidance, product owner responsibility, self-organizing teams, and progress tracking.
Define the end state, agility level, and a staged plan for enterprise agile transformation. Use pilot projects and a five-step model to align governance, portfolio management, and change management.
In this lecture, we're going to summarize some of the topics we've discussed in previous lectures and talk about additional resources that are available to help you implement some of the ideas and the direction provided by this course.
Important:
This course is part of an integrated, university-level curriculum of seven courses (See details below). This course is the seventh course in that series and should be taken in sequence. Please take the prerequisite courses before taking this course.
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Course Summary:
Learn to lead large, complex enterprise-level projects and to lead enterprise-level Agile transformations that are well-aligned with a company's business!
This course is designed to provide senior-level project and program managers with a deeper understanding of advanced topics related to enterprise-level Agile Project Management principles and practices in order to put in place the right people, process, and tools to lead high-performance, enterprise-level projects and programs for a business or to play a leadership role in an enterprise-level Agile transformation.
Special Note:
This course is part of an overall curriculum that is designed around helping students develop the skills required for a high-impact Agile Project Management role. Most students will want to take the complete curriculum rather than individual courses. The complete curriculum should be taken in the following order:
Agile PM 101 - Learn the Truth About Agile versus Waterfall
Agile PM 102 - What's the Future of Agile Project Management?
Agile PM 201 - Understanding Agile at a Deeper Level
Agile PM 202 - Introduction to Agile Project Management
Agile PM 301 - Mastering Agile Project Management
Agile PM 401 - Advanced Agile Project Management
Agile PM 402 - Enterprise-level Agile Project Management
Students who complete the entire curriculum of all seven courses shown above will receive a signed certificate of completion from the Agile Project Management Academy. The complete set of seven courses will also meet the 21 hours of training required for PMI-ACP certification.
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Agile Business Management Curriculum
There is also a condensed version of this curriculum that is designed for any business people who are involved in Agile projects including Product Owners, Business Sponsors, and Business Analysts
Introduction to Agile Business Management
Mastering Agile Business Management
Enterprise-level Agile Business Management
Note: These courses for Agile Business Management are an abridged version of the Agile Project Management courses and there is no need to take both