Agile Project Management Certificate Program

This five-day 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.

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. Applications include business intelligence, data mining and warehousing, service delivery, product development, marketing, and process improvement.

The course focuses on Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies, as well as how to apply them to projects both within and outside the realm of software design. Participants will learn how to help teams respond to unpredictable circumstances through incremental, iterative work cadences and empirical feedback.

This Certificate Program is offered Live-Remote for 2022. 

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.

Objectives

You will learn how to:

• Identify project management scenarios well-suited 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
• Effectively manage changing customer requirements
• Lead agile project planning and estimating activities
• Track agile project progress
• Improve agile processes continuously during the project
• Implement the Project Close process

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

Classes are normally held Saturdays, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, and will resume when on-campus meetings are allowed again. For now all courses are online.  We also offer an online on-demand version of the program.

There are two options for taking a course remotely. Live remote broadcast courses are live lectures delivered via Zoom or WebEx. A passing grade requires attending and actively participating in all sessions. Online On-demand courses are pre-recorded lectures to be watched on your schedule. A passing grade requires watching all lectures and completing the short assignments.

Live Remote classes are delivered remotely via scheduled Zoom sessions. If you miss a session, you may watch the recorded session at a later time. On-Demand classes are pre-recorded videos you watch at your leisure. You may interact with your instructors through the Moodle Learning Management System.

Fee: $4050 for the 5 day Live or Online On-Demand program. Payment is due (or credit card charged) on the Friday prior to first day of the course. For the Live program only, you may pay the entire program fee of $4050 in one payment, or you may pay the program fee in five increments of $810 corresponding to each of the 5 class days of the live class.

Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 40 Professional Development Units (PDUs) or 4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Grading: Both the live and the on-demand programs are based on a Pass/Fail grading system.

The PDUs may be applied by PMI^® Project Management Professionals (PMP^®) towards their maintenance of certification under the PMI^® Continuing Certification Requirements Program.

Instructors

Nate Crews

PMP, PMI and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.