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Agile Project Management: Virtual Training

Course description

Advanced Professional Development for Experienced Project Managers.

In this 160-hour self-paced virtual training course, MBTS Learning offers advanced, expert-approved strategies for project managers to grow their skill sets and careers. We provide the most effective professional development courses in our industry written by the best names in our profession. You’ll discover how to interact much more successfully with your stakeholders and get the best outcomes from your projects than you ever thought possible.

With MBTS Learning courses, you can get started immediately because everything is available online as soon as you enroll. And, when you enroll in one of our paid classes, you’ll find they are also portable – you can optionally choose to have printed course guides shipped to you because we know you know that being chained to a computer or stuck at your office to take an online class is not always the most convenient method or the best way for you to grow and implement your learning. Your schedule requirements are ours, too. So, you have an unlimited amount of time to complete a course once you enroll. That’s right – there is no “limited time access” to courses at MBTS Learning. You can take as much time as you need to complete your course; we’ll always be here to help you when and where you need it.


Outline for this course

Chapter 1 – Introduction to Agile Project Management Chapter 2 – A Brief Agile History Chapter 3 – Agile Values and Principles Chapter 4 – Agile Overview and Benefits Chapter 5 – Planning Agile Projects Chapter 6 – An Introduction to Scrum Chapter 7 – The Roles and Rules of Scrum Chapter 8 – Scrum Meetings Chapter 9 – Scrum Artifacts Chapter 10 – A Day in the Life of a Scrum Team




Outcomes

Impact on the organization

Agile Project management have quickly become the de facto solution for agile development and application deployment. Administrators and developers are increasingly seeking ways to improve application time to market and improve maintainability.

This course provides the gateway to organizational and digital transformation by providing an understanding of the potential of agile project management.

This course is the starting point for our management curriculum

This course is designed to provide project managers a better understanding of Agile approaches and methods so that they can be successfully applied in the project arena.
By the end of this course the student should be able to:

  • Describe Agile Methods and how to apply that to project management.

  • Articulate the benefits of using iterative and incremental rather than waterfall techniques for project management.

  • Determine when to apply traditional project management or to use Agile approaches for projects.

  • Describe how to apply the Agile values and principles in their thinking, and in leading teams.

  • Discuss how to improve overall project outcomes by leveraging Agile techniques.

  • All course objectives can be measured through end-of-module review questions and an end-of-course assessment.


Course Overview

Over the last decade, Agile techniques have grown in prominence. In fact, so many organizations have experimented with Agile that nearly everyone has either tried it or heard from others who have. And with anything new comes change and resistance to change. Agile seems to have created two camps – ardent followers and those who are opposed to it.

There are many reasons I have heard for opposition; Agile won’t work for us, nothing new under the sun, doesn’t provide benefits. On the other hand, there are lots of success stories with Agile so I think there is something to be learned from that.

Having a long experience with traditional project management and program management, I can empathize with traditional PMs and their reluctance to embrace agile. Traditional project management is about trying to manage the unmanageable – time, cost and scope. A significant amount of experience, good and bad, went in to the creation of a project management body of knowledge. The intent of the The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is to provide a set of best practices that can be tailored to the situation at hand.

Though I was first exposed to Agile in 2003, I’ve only been working, studying, applying and teaching Agile techniques since 2008. In the process, I’ve had to unlearn some things and embrace concepts that were very different than my experience. I’ve also found that many of the challenges I felt as a project manager were addressed better by Agile techniques, especially when it comes to managing uncertainty and providing predictability.

This course is intended to help project managers, developers, managers and other team members
who are familiar with traditional methods to understand Agile concepts and techniques and be
able to apply them when the situation warrants their use.

Why This Course

There are many books about Agile on the market and very few that are targeted to or address project managers. In fact, the average PM is likely to be bewildered by the variability in the information that is available. The ones that are out there vary widely in quality, scope and practical application. I’ve leveraged the best of them for this course though there are many sources to consider. The ‘Works Cited in this Book’ and the ‘Recommended Reading List for Scrum Masters’ at the back of this course guide provide more information for further exploration of this topic.

Likewise, there are few training opportunities for a project manager trying to get up to speed. The Project Management Institute’s introduction of the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification was an attempt to bring Agile to project managers. I’ve taught the PMI-ACP training course and it is just a flood of information that the participants need to be able to internalize and regurgitate in order to pass the exam.
The intent of this training course is to help project managers better understand Agile methods so that they can apply them successfully.