About this course
WANT TO LEARN ABOUT MODERN DELIVERY APPROACHES TO ENSURE YOU’RE ADDING MAXIMUM VALUE?
Our Agile Project Management course is designed for those working in a project, product or no-project context who seek to work in a more adaptive way.
This course will help you to learn the skills, techniques, and mindset needed to manage work using an agile approach. You will learn how to collaborate with stakeholders and support self-organising teams to develop solutions incrementally to increase efficiency and effectiveness. You will also gain the agile project management toolkit needed to work more cohesively, communicate more effectively, and support teams with leadership and coordination and facilitation.
What you will gain
ICAgile accredited course: The ICP-APM Certification from ICAgile is granted on the successful completion of this course. This certification is part of the ICAgile Delivery Management Track along with our Agile Fundamentals and Delivery at Scale courses.
This course will contribute 14 PMI® professional development units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (12 Ways of Working and 2 Power Skills).
What you will learn
- The background to and the driving forces for adopting agile.
- The role of the project manager in an agile team.
- How to structure and coordinate self-organising teams.
- How to use agile techniques and tools to plan, monitor and manage agile projects, programs and portfolios.
- The importance of value-driven delivery and continuous customer and user feedback in increasing efficiency.
- How to provide guidance and a decision-making framework to ensure their continuous alignment with organisational goals.
- How to understand and manage stakeholders needs.
- How to use adaptive planning to maximise flow.
- How to assess, manage and monitor risk.
What you will need
This is an expert level course designed for people with prior experience and fundamental training within agile and project management. If you need to learn more about agile practices, we recommend our Agile Fundamentals course as a lead-in.
This course is great for
Managers and executives responsible for software and solutions
- Iteration managers and scrum masters working on agile
- Project managers responsible for software and solutions development
- Product Owners and Value
- Business analysts gathering requirements for software and solutions
- Team leaders and developers building software
- Business managers who have to sponsor and are responsible for the introduction of new computer- based information .
Topics Covered
- Agile principles and practices
- Project team formation, ‘teaming’ culture, and self-organising teams
- Stakeholder analysis, management, and engagement
- Collaboration, coordination, and communication
- Complex adaptive systems and adaptive planning
- Delivery management
- Agile project flow
- Defining value
- Governance
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Performance metrics
