Agile Project Management  (Virtual Classroom)

December Course Schedule:  Thursday, December 10 - Friday, December 11, 2020, and commence at 10:30 am Eastern to 6:30 pm Eastern, with scheduled breaks throughout.

This course provides an introduction to Agile Project Management using the latest PMBOK/ Agile guidelines from PMI. The course will combine lecture, small group activities, quizzes and discussions to help students understand Agile and its place relative to traditional project management practices. The goal is to take advantage of practical real-world examples and see how agile applies to those examples. 

The program is intended to be approximately half lecture and half activity. Using this methodology allows individuals to put into practice immediately what was taught in the lecture portion and retention is significantly higher. It also prepares participants to manage their projects in the work environment, as they likely experience it each day. At the end of the course, students are split into teams and will manage a project of their choice, from its inception to completion in a matter of a few hours. This course is 100% compliant with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s®) current PMBOK and Agile materials.

This course familiarizes you with Agile concepts from a broad industry perspective. Since so many of the participants come from different backgrounds, an attempt to outline a variety of scenarios is always employed.  The role of Agile project manager emphasizes a person who is efficient and is able to rally the team from scrum to scrum on well-planned sprints all with emphasis on eliminating waste and getting the end-goal as quickly as possible. The skills required for Agile project management are discussed as an emerging strategy for many companies. Where traditional project management plans every detail, Agile focuses on hitting results in minimum time and the “fail fast” mantra. Companies today value this methodology because it is effective in situations where outcomes are uncertain and methods untested. The expanse of Agile will be reviewed from short-term and smaller projects to longer-term more development style projects.

You Will Learn To:

• Employ the proper use of Agile in situations that are uncertain compared to clearly definable work. 
• Analyze lean, Kanban and risk to determine what life cycles may be required
• Evaluate project life cycles and its relevance to various projects including Predictive; Iterative; Incremental, and Agile
• Apply various Agile tools together by exploring identification, qualification, and selection steps
• Create all components of a specific project and eliminate unnecessary steps
• Evaluate specific project factors for future decisions
• Implement Agile through team preparation and composition
• Explain the process of monitoring, troubleshooting and measurements in Agile
• Employ Agile terminology throughout the course
• Review Agile change management principles
• Apply Agile concepts to the PMO development

Who Should Attend
This course is primarily designed for those who have or will be assigned project management responsibilities, whether in an agile environment or not.  Any principle, project managers, program manager or entire project teams will experience a benefit from these methodologies.

As prerequisites, participants should have basic management skills, be involved or planning to become involved with project management. Participants should also have an understanding of basic accounting and budgeting skills, which will be employed in budgeting project costs and practical exercises during the course.