This Agile Project Management Certificate Program provides tools and techniques for effectively and efficiently planning and managing high-velocity projects. This is the toolset you need to meet changing customer needs and expectations, and to efficiently produce high-quality products, services, and solutions.
This Agile Project Management Certificate Program provides tools and techniques for effectively and efficiently planning and managing high-velocity projects. This is the toolset you need to meet changing customer needs and expectations, and to efficiently produce high-quality products, services, and solutions.
Program Experience
In a time of growing global competition, continuous innovation in technology, and incredibly short time-to-market requirements, the demand for agile and cost-effective project management has never been higher. This on-demand certificate program equips you with the vital project management skills you need to help your team respond to unpredictable circumstances through incremental, iterative work cadences and empirical feedback. Elevate your skills to communicate more effectively and develop solutions to increase efficiency.
Applications include business intelligence, data mining and warehousing, service delivery, product development, marketing, and process improvement. The program focuses on Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies and how to apply them to projects both within and outside the realm of software design.
Caltech is a Premier Authorized Training Partner with the Project Management Institute (PMI®). This program provides 40 PDUs towards the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM®), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) and similar certificates, either for initial application or sustainment.
Benefits
You will learn how to:
Describe agile project management processes
Articulate how agile differs from waterfall approach
Identify project management scenarios wellsuited for application of agile and lean methods
Differentiate between agile frameworks such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean, and select the most appropriate for a project
Apply the Scrum and Kanban methods
Assess requirements and design considerations
Effectively manage scope uncertainty and changing customer requirements
Drive agile scoping, project planning and estimating activities
Track and report agile project progress
Lead method transitions within the organization
Improve processes continuously during the project
Implement the Project Close process and transitioning to sustainment teams, like DevOps
Energize teams through an agile culture
Topics
Agile Methodologies and Practices
Agile Estimating and Requirements Gathering Procedures
Agile Design and Testing Procedures
Agile Release and Iteration Planning Strategies
Agile and Scrum Methodologies and Practices
Agile Leadership Styles for Agile Projects
Scaling Agile for Large Agile Projects
Agile Implementation Strategies
Who Should Attend
This program is for professionals seeking to optimize business performance in high-tech companies. In addition to project managers, this program is ideal for practitioners across business intelligence, data mining/warehousing, service delivery, product development, marketing, process improvement, engineering, and anyone in a project or product delivery role.
Schedule
Course
Duration
Self-Paced Online
Agile Project Management 27B
Online (Course # 1841124G)
40 hours
November 4, 2024 release; completes December 15, 2024
Instructors
Nathaniel Crews
Agile Project Management, Systems Engineering, Coaching
