Introductionto Agile Project Management

Learn How to Apply Project Management Practices in an Agile Environment

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- Develop an objective understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both an Agile and traditional plan-driven approach to project management and how they can be combined in the right proportions to fit any given situation in an integrated approach to Agile Project Management
- Learn what's fundamentally different about Agile Project Management and the shifts in thinking that project managers might need to make to operate successfully in an Agile environment
- Better understand the impact of Agile on the project management profession
- the new challenges that Agile creates for project managers
- and the potential roles that an Agile Project Manager can play

What you'll learn

Develop an objective understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both an Agile and traditional plan-driven approach to project management and how they can be combined in the right proportions to fit any given situation in an integrated approach to Agile Project Management

Learn what's fundamentally different about Agile Project Management and the shifts in thinking that project managers might need to make to operate successfully in an Agile environment

Better understand the impact of Agile on the project management profession

the new challenges that Agile creates for project managers

and the potential roles that an Agile Project Manager can play

* Requirements

* Students should have some general familiarity with both traditional plan-driven project management and Agile methodologies.
* Students should have taken the previous three courses in this series of seven courses prior to taking this course

Description

Important:
This course is part of an integrated, university-level curriculum of seven courses (See details below). This course is the fourth course in that series and should be taken in sequence. Please take the prerequisite courses before taking this course.

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Earn PDU's: Students who complete this course are eligible to receive 5.0 PDU's in PMI continuing education credits. Instructions for claiming PDU's are provided with the last lesson in the course.

Qualify for PMI-ACP Certification: Completion of all seven courses in this series will meet the requirement for 21 hours of training to qualify for PMI-ACP certification.

Money-back Guaranty: Try this course and if you are not satisfied with the value you received from the course, just send an email to Udemy support and they will give you a 100% refund within 30 days. Course Summary: Learn how to apply project management practices in an Agile environment!

The concept of Agile Project Management is very rapidly evolving and will have a significant impact on the project management profession; however, we are in the early stages of that transformation and there is a lot of confusion about what impact it has on project managers. This course will help you unravel a lot of the confusion that exists; develop a totally new perspective to see both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices in a new light as complementary to each other rather than competitive; and learn to develop an adaptive approach to project management to blend those principles and practices together in the right proportions to fit any situation.

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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PMI-ACP Certification Course

In addition, there are one optional courses that is designed to supplement the above curriculum for students who are interested in PMI-ACP certification:

How to Prepare for PMI-ACP Certification is intended for students who are interested in using this curriculum to prepare 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

Who this course is for:

Anyone who is interested in developing a well-integrated Agile Project Management strategy for their organization to align an Agile development approach with the company's business
Project Managers who want to learn how Agile impacts the project management profession and want to develop a more adaptive approach to project management to enhance their project management skills and develop new opportunities for career growth

Course content

9 sections • 46 lectures

Course Introduction 1 lectures

Introduction Preview 05:41

In this lecture, I want to introduce myself to you and provide a summary of the goals and objectives to be achieved in the course

Background Material 4 lectures

Agile versus Waterfall Recap Preview 06:36

In this lecture, we will do a brief recap of some key points from the "Learn the Truth About Agile versus Waterfall" course that are essential to making further progress in this course and cover some of the key benefits of adopting a more Agile or adaptive project management approach.

Agile versus Waterfall Recap Quiz

Brief review of topics related to the lecture on "Agile versus Waterfall Recap"

Choosing the Right Approach Preview 13:56

Agile has huge potential benefits but it is not a solution to every problem. Learning to choose the right approach to fit a project can be a difficult decision and it is often not a simple, binary either-or decision between Agile and Waterfall. Many times it requires a blend of those two approaches to fit a given situation.

In this lecture, we'll discuss a couple of examples of why an Agile (or adaptive) approach makes the most sense in some situations and a Waterfall (or plan-driven) approach makes more sense in other situations. Many times it is not a binary choice between two extremes and requires blending an approach to fit the situation.

The key point is that rather than force-fitting a project to some kind of canned, “textbook” methodology, a better solution is to go in the other direction and fit the methodology (or combination of methodologies) to the project. It takes more skill to do that – it requires knowledge of a broader range of methodologies and a deeper understanding of the principles behind the methodologies to know how to blend them together to fit a given situation.

Choosing the Right Approach Quiz

This quiz is based on choosing the best approach for some selected project scenarios

Value-driven Delivery 9 lectures

Value-driven Delivery Overview Preview 06:55

This lecture provides an overview of what "value-driven delivery" is and why it is important.

Principles of Value-driven Delivery Preview 07:52

This lecture provides an overview of the key principles behind value-driven delivery.

Value-driven Delivery Quiz 1

Customer-value Prioritization Part 1 Preview 06:01

This lecture is part 1 of 4 parts on Customer-value Prioritization. This lecture is focused on providing an overview of what customer-value prioritization is, why it is so difficult, and some of the factors to consider in customer-value prioritization.

Customer-value Prioritization Part 2 Preview 07:08

This lecture is part 2 of 4 parts on Customer-value Prioritization. This lecture is focused on Pareto Rule, Pareto Analysis, Minimum Viable Product, Minimum Marketable Feature, and MoSCoW prioritization

Customer-value Prioritization Part 3 Preview 05:57

This lecture is part 3 of 4 parts on Customer-value Prioritization. This lecture is focused on the Kano Model

Customer-value Prioritization Part 4 Preview 03:04

This lecture is part 4 of 4 parts on Customer-value Prioritization. This lecture is focused on the Relative Weighing Model

Agile Business Case Development Preview 05:16

This lecture provides an overview of Agile Business Case Development and how it is different from a traditional plan-driven environment.

Value-driven Delivery Quiz 2

This quiz is a brief review of topics related to "Value-driven Delivery"

Adaptive Planning 8 lectures

Rolling Wave Planning Preview 09:48

This lecture provides an overview of "Rolling Wave Planning"

Product/Project Vision Preview 10:48

This lecture is part 1 of 5 parts on "Agile Planning Practices and Tools". This particular lecture is focused on developing a Product/Project Vision.

Product Road Map Preview 08:25

This lecture is part 2 of 5 parts on "Agile Planning Practices and Tools". This particcular lecture is focused on developing a Product/Project Vision.

Exploratory 360 Assessment Preview 04:00

This lecture is part 3 of 5 parts on "Agile Planning Practices and Tools". This particcular lecture is focused on doing an "Exploratory 360 Assessment".

Functional Decomposition Preview 08:41

This lecture is part 4 of 5 parts on "Agile Planning Practices and Tools". This particular lecture is focused on "Functional Decomposition".

Agile Project Charter Preview 03:19

This lecture is part 5 of 5 parts on "Agile Planning Practices and Tools". This particular lecture is focused on developing a Project Charter for an Agile project.

Progressive Elaboration and Multi-level Planning Preview 08:46

This lecture provides an overview of how "Progressive Elaboration" and "Multi-level Planning" are implemented in an Agile environment.

Adaptive Planning Quiz

This quiz is a brief review of topics from the section on "Adaptive Planning"

Agile Requirements Definition Practices 8 lectures

Agile Requirements Best Practices Preview 12:39

This lecture discusses best practices for Agile Requirements

The Role of a Business Analyst in an Agile Project Preview 08:11

This lecture discusses the normal Business Analysis functions in a typical plan-driven project and the potential roles that aa Business Analyst might play in an Agile environment.

User Personas Preview 04:57

This lecture discusses the concept of "User Personas" in Agile.

User Stories and User Story Examples Preview 07:53

This lecture discusses user stories, the characteristics of well-written user stories, and provides some examples of typical Agile user stories.

Requirements Hierarchy, Epics, and Themes Preview 06:05

This lecture is focused on how to develop a very well-organized and hierarchical structure of requirements using epics and themes.

Product Backlog and Product Backlog Grooming Preview 12:04

This lecture discusses how a Product Backlog is used to capture requirements in an Agile project and how a Product Backlog Grooming process works to continuously refine and further define the Product Backlog in a typical Agile project as the project is in progress.

Story Mapping Preview 08:24

This lecture discusses "Story Mapping" and how it can be used to plan and organize project requirements for an Agile project.

Agile Requirements Definition Practices Quiz

This quiz is a brief review of topics related to the Agile Requirements Definition Practices Lecture

Agile Stakeholder Management and Agile Contracts 6 lectures

Why Is Stakeholder Management Important? Preview 10:11

What Is Stakeholder Management? Preview 04:40

Stakeholder Management Process Preview 05:03

What's Different About Agile Stakeholder Management? Preview 06:32

Agile Contracts Preview 09:52

Agile Stakeholder Management Quiz

Distributed Project Management in an Agile Environment 4 lectures

Distributed Project Management Preview 10:17

The Role of a Developer in an Agile Environment Preview 05:22

The Role of the Product Owner in an Agile Environment Preview 04:56

The Role of the Scrum Master in an Agile Environment Preview 03:04

Non-Software Case Studies 2 lectures

Agile Home Remodeling Preview 14:12

Agile Book Publishing Preview 07:38

Overall Summary and Resources to Help 4 lectures

Example Case Study Preview 06:23

This lecture provides an example of a real-world case study that illustrates the value of an Agile Project Management approach.

Overall Summary and Resources to Help Preview 07:39

In this lecture we will provide a wrap-up of the major points that have been covered in this course. We will also discuss some of the resources that are available for further developing and implementing the ideas in this course

How to Claim PDU's Preview 00:05

Please download the attached document on "Instructions for Claiming PDU's" for instructions on how to claim PDU's for this course.

Bonus Material Preview 00:04

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