4152 - Agile Project Management: Practical Approaches
Course Description
In today’s fast-moving marketplace, you need greater agility to stay ahead of change. In this course, you’ll learn how to accelerate project success using agile practices. You’ll discover new ways of organizing teams and projects that reduce waste while optimizing performance and product delivery. Among the skills you’ll develop: constructing key agile artifacts such as product backlogs and user stories; customer journey mapping; risk management, quality control and outsourcing strategies; and assessment of scaling frameworks such as SAFe and Nexus.
Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to:
- Organize an agile project for success and to support an organization’s strategy
- Explain agile team dynamics, key roles, and effective performance management
- Construct key agile artifacts such as product backlogs and user stories including prioritizing and estimation
- Design product delivery techniques, customer journey mapping, roadmaps, waste reduction, and processes
- Analyze risk management, quality control, and outsourcing strategies within agile environments
- Assess scaling frameworks such as SAFe and Nexus, understanding their benefits and challenges
Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include:
- Managing agile teams
- Use agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban)
- Scaling agile
Notes
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Eligible learners may apply to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for this micro-credential. You can find more information on our Financial Aid page.
Recommendations
- 1860 Foundations of Project Management (OR equivalent - 3401 AND 3402)
- 1952 Leading Projects in Organizations (OR equivalent 1952A AND 1952B)
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Advanced Business Analysis : Elective Courses
- Advanced Project Management : 90 Hours
- Agile Project Management : Required Courses
Jamal El Ali is an educator, project management consultant, and researcher passionate about teaching, sharing his knowledge, and helping others achieve their goals. Jamal has led strategic and transformational projects for some of North America's most respected organizations including Lufthansa Airlines, Charon Systems, CIBC, TD Bank, Mentor Technologies, FAHM, Barnes & Noble, and Vital Source. Jamal's experience spans information technology, enterprise real estate, workplace optimization, cybersecurity, public utilities, business continuity, and process realignment. Passionate about the project management profession, Jamal presents at PMI events and is a certified PMI trainer. He’s an author on project recovery and PMP exam preparation, and a course designer and developer. A committed volunteer with Project Managers Without Borders (PMWB), he’s a lifelong learner, currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology on artificial intelligence in project management and its effects on future work.