Introduction to Agile Project Management

Introduction to Agile Project Management

Nowadays, the need for Agile approach in solving problems is necessity. There is no successful project without good Project manager. For the Project manager to be a good in his/her job, it is not enough anymore to follow traditional practices, but to engage in changing the whole mindset toward the Agile way of thinking. 

What you will learn?

We will start in this course with the history and general principles of project management. Then, we will elaborate traditional project management methods which will give you solid basis and set foundations for understanding the need for agile approach in the whole project management concept. After that, we will address agile manifesto and frameworks and jump to the agile practices and possible applications. At the end of this introductory course, we prepared for you a small and hopefully interesting game which will give you insights how agile really works. In final chapter, there is a 20 question final assessment with situational questions.

Why you should take this course?

This course is designed for the people who are either new in project management, or willing to improve their skills. In this course we will show you from the first hand experience what are some real obstacles on projects that you can expect and propose solution to overcome them. Furthermore, we will show you how you can make your everyday project management routine more interesting by playing Agile games with the team. You will learn how to engage participants and to emerge them into future perspective environment.

Who are the instructors of this course?

Two Agile experts with:

- a proven real-life software industry experience,

- certifications in PMP, PMI-ACP and CSM,

- knowledge in system modeling and working tools and

- willingness to share the experience and knowledge.

In this course we will not burden you with a lot of theory, but we will concentrate on what is needed and could be applied in practice.

Agile approach: Introduction to Agile project management for the beginners and future practitioners

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What you will learn

• General understanding of Agile way and best practices
• Apply interesting Agile games
• Basic knowledge of traditional project management

Rating: 4.1

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Bojan Smudja, PMP, PMI-ACP, A-CSM, CSPO