Agile Project Management – Being Flexible without being Gumby!

Course Length: 2 days

Course Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Professional Development Units (PDU's): 14

Public Course Price: $1295. Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Course Description: This course is designed for project managers who are responsible for managing agile projects.  Learn techniques to understand how agile projects are different and the best techniques to manage them effectively and successfully.  Understand how to avoid the common pitfalls of agile projects. The course will cover best practice project management techniques for a typical agile project lifecycle.  Mindavation courses are highly interactive with challenging case studies and lectures filled with real life work scenarios. Students will team together to apply techniques learned from the lectures. Mindavation instructors for this course are PMI® certified, each have over 10 years of project management experience in multiple industries, and have directly managed agile projects successfully.

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand agile terminology, history, techniques and processes
• Discuss scrum project planning components
• Obtain useful iterative and agile tips specific to requirements, design, analysis, testing and documentation
• Learn to apply iterative techniques to large and small projects
• Understand effective coaching techniques for agile team members
• Manage team and management expectations during an agile project
• Devise reasonable control mechanisms to ensure projects stay within predefined project constraints
• Understand how to identify an agile project that's in trouble EARLY

Discounts: 10% discount when three students sign-up together

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All PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas are covered in this course:
Project Communications Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Integration Management
Project Risk Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management

Course Prerequisites: A minimum of four years project management experience is required.  Prior experience managing at least one software project (non-agile) is highly recommended.

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