Course description
Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management
While the Mastering Agile Professional Certificate program emphasizes principles at the heart of all Agile frameworks, in this course we start by learning the key project management processes, roles, mechanics, and philosophies behind Scrum. This will provide the basis for all understanding Agile in its purest form over four weeks exploring Why, Who, How, and finally What Scrum looks like applied in the real world. From understanding the agile team members, like scrum master and product owner, to the important differences in lean and agile processes.
While this course will not make you an agile certified practitioner (PMI-ACP), or certified scrum master (CSM), it offers a more fundamental agile certification based on agile principles and how scaled agile is applied in industry today. You'll finish this course more than ready to begin your agile journey, which we hope takes you to the next course in the series onSprint Planning for Faster Agile Team Delivery.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Prerequisites:
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
- Why Agile is taking over: history, case studies, and proof Agile works better
- Who uses Agile based on industry scale, stakeholders, and engineering
- How to run a successful Scrum team for speed, innovation, leadership, and control
- Scrum team makeup, user story writing, sprint planning, execution, and retro tools
- What Scrum looks like at scale, its alternatives, and how to avoid pitfalls over time
Training Course Content
- Week 1: The first week starts with Why agile methods are used - based on case studies that prove its effectiveness and the history of getting to Scrum.
- Week 2: The second week explores Who uses agile across industries, exploring the types of work management and how Scrum Agile fits into the world of work.
- Week 3: The third week gets into the mechanics of Scrum and How Scrum is performed and executed. Here you'll learn team formation, planning and retro games, and how to effectively manage work to meet Sprint objectives.
- Week 4: The last week pivots to look at what Scrum looks like at Scale, and how it differs from other Agile frameworksin terms ofscale, program and portfolio management, risk management, and pitfalls of Agile
Course delivery details
This course is offered through The University of Maryland, College Park, a partner institute of EdX.
2-3 hours per week
Expenses
- Verified Track -$199
- Audit Track - Free