Agile Project Manager

Course Summary:

Project managers face a huge challenge when confronted with continually changing requirements. How can you plan when the things keep changing? Traditional project management approaches suggest that we take a snapshot of the requirements as a baseline, and then use change control in an attempt to minimize the impact of any shifting requirements. Sometimes, however, these changes are a reality that the project sponsor must accommodate. The new agile project management methods help deal with these situations.

Participants in this 3-day session will learn the techniques of disciplined, structured agile project management through simulations and examples from real-world projects that used these methods to control changing requirements.

This course is designed to meet the educational requirements for four certification exams:

PMI® Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
Scrum Developer Certification (SDC)
Scrum Master Certification (SMC)
Certified Agile Project Manager (Cert.APM) exams.

Exams are offered separately at an additional cost through PMI.

Course Outline

This course provides experienced project managers with advanced understanding of:

The agile philosophy, including overviews of scrum development, lean development, feature-driven development and extreme programing
The principles and techniques of disciplined, structured agile project management (including agile estimating and planning, documentation, agile metrics and forecasting, and agile quality management)
How to identify situations where agile techniques may add value
How to negotiate with Stakeholders
How to begin applying the techniques to reduce overall project risk on high change projects

Although there is no formal pre-requisite for this course, participants should have some training or experience in project management. This course does not teach the fundamentals of project management; rather, it explains how agile practices are different from more conventional practices — it does not teach the conventional practices. For those with no prior project management knowledge or experience, the Project Management Essentials course provides suitable preparatory training.