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Agile Project Management: Decisions, Not Rituals, 510 Tools
3,060 students
Agile Project Management: Decisions, Not Rituals, 510 Tools
Stand-ups, sprints and boards, but decisions still stall? Agile project management: Scrum, Kanban, backlog, OKR
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Make agile work as a decision system: take 510 procedures, templates, question lists and checklists in 58 downloadable resources
- Check how agile your team really is with the Agile Reality Ladder
- Set up a Kanban board and a product backlog a team can actually work from
- Run sprint planning with story points, and spot when an estimate says the story is too big
- Write user stories with acceptance criteria and a working definition of ready
- Facilitate the ceremonies so each one ends in a decision rather than a discussion
- Prioritise a backlog by value against effort and run an OKR cycle above the sprints
- Handle changing requirements with impact analysis instead of silent scope growth
- See agile and goal tools on screen, including Jira, Trello, Miro, Perdoo and Lattice
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
15 sections • 43 lectures • 24h 11m total length
Requirements
- Please note: the lessons that carry the core method use internal projects such as hiring, training and reward as examples, not software features
- A team or project you lead or support
- No certification required: every technique comes with a procedure or template
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Many teams adopt the rituals of agile, stand-ups, sprints and boards, and keep making decisions the old way. Here are 510 tools to make agile work: 369 ready-to-use procedures, templates, question lists, checklists, matrices and AI prompts, 111 models and methods, 13 services shown on screen and 17 working files.
Open a lecture, take the tool, run your next sprint planning with it.
Why agile turns into rituals
The board is full and nobody knows what matters most. Stories are too big to estimate, ceremonies end without decisions, and requirements change quietly mid-sprint. Goals live in a separate document, so saying "not this quarter" feels like refusing work.
What changes after this course
The backlog is prioritised by value, stories have acceptance criteria, ceremonies end in decisions and changes go through impact analysis. An OKR cycle above the sprints makes priorities explicit, and you lead and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
A note on the structure
The core method lessons were recorded for teams running internal projects, so the cases are hiring, training and reward projects rather than software features. The mechanics are the same: board, backlog, prioritisation, sprint, story points, daily meeting and review.
What is inside: 510 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 58 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 17 working files, including the Agile Reality Ladder, the requirements traceability matrix, the user stories and acceptance criteria template and the change request impact analysis
- 369 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 105 step-by-step procedures and workflows: hypothesis testing cycle, product backlog refinement, sprint review, change request impact analysis
- 85 templates and sample documents: user story, portfolio roadmap, experiment canvas, Given–When–Then acceptance criteria
- 60 question lists and scripts: Product Owner selection, product vision, prelaunch risk review, root problem diagnosis
- 56 checklists: product launch readiness, INVEST user story quality, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done
- 31 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: impact-effort matrix, risk assessment matrix, Scrum-Kanban selection matrix, technical debt decision matrix
- 18 ready AI prompts: requirements prioritization, user story generation, acceptance criteria generation, change request impact analysis
- 10 formulas and metric sets and 4 other working tools: product portfolio metrics, North Star input metrics, product-market fit diagnostic sheet, MoSCoW prioritization
- 111 models and methods explained with examples: Scrum framework, Kano model, Jobs to Be Done, Lean methodology
- 13 services shown on screen, including Jira, Trello, Miro, Perdoo and Lattice
Where the tools are
Agile and Scrum foundations (2 sections, 62 tools). Product owner, Kanban, backlog, release planning, stand-ups and reviews.
Agile product strategy (3 sections, 125 tools). Vision, product-market fit, discovery, jobs to be done, metrics and growth.
Agile business analysis (2 sections, 116 tools). Problems, user stories, acceptance, BPMN and requirement change.
Ceremony facilitation (2 sections, 103 tools). Decision sessions, alignment and difficult participants.
OKR for agile teams (3 sections, 56 tools). Goal cycles, check-ins, retrospectives and tools.
Leadership and influence (2 sections, 62 tools). Focus, priorities, briefs, trust and influence without authority.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
At Preply I ran Delegation Poker with managers myself: we printed the free cards, each manager drew a delegation level for real situations, and the discussion about why people chose different levels was the point. At iDeals our first OKR cycles reached only 30 to 50 percent, because leaders spent about 30 percent of their time on goals and the rest on daily work; I had not explained that this is normal at first.
How to use the course
Start with the Agile Reality Ladder and the foundations, then go to product, analysis, facilitation or OKR sections as your team needs them. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 43 lectures across 15 sections, 24 hours
- 58 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 17 working files
- 510 tools across the lessons, including 13 services shown on screen
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take your current backlog and mark the five items you would cut if the team lost a third of its capacity. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Project managers moving to agile
- Product owners and Scrum masters
- Team leads in HR, operations and business functions running projects
- Business analysts who write requirements
- Managers who run OKR alongside sprints