Agile Project Management
- 5 Courses | 3h 37m 58s
- 11 Books | 42h 47m
- 4 Audiobooks | 17h 59m 14s
Agile is increasingly being used as a flexible, collaborative methodology. Learn about Agile and how you can apply it on your projects. Agile offers the benefit of iterative approaches such as managing projects or developing new products. Agile helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and more efficiently. Agile teams work in small increments. Here, you'll discover how the requirements, plans, and results are evaluated continuously so teams have a natural mechanism for responding to change quickly.
COURSES INCLUDED
Agile Principles and Methodologies
Agile projects use short work iterations and incremental development of products that focus on business priorities and customer value. In this course, you'll learn about Agile concepts that are fundamental when managing projects, including the four Agile values and twelve Agile principles. This course also covers the five phases of the Agile project management model, and introduces you to the most common Agile methodologies and frameworks. Finally, this course introduces key activities for managing Agile projects, including creating a product vision and project charter, and best contract and documentation types. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)(r) exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
11 videos |
43m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Agile Project Planning
Properly estimating and prioritizing project requirements is critical when planning projects. When managing Agile projects, you need to be able to map out the work necessary for your product release. In this course, you'll learn about vital Agile planning activities including creating personas and wireframing. This course also covers the most common Agile estimation techniques used when managing projects such as story points, wideband Delphi, and affinity estimation. This course also covers requirements prioritization methods and other Agile project management activities you perform when completing your release plan. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)(r) exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
11 videos |
43m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Agile Project Scheduling and Monitoring
Wouldn't it be great if projects managed themselves once you got them started? But this isn't the case. Successful Agile project management involves adequate scheduling and monitoring, which helps identify any adjustments that need to be made, and ensures effective time management. In this course, you'll learn about managing projects with Agile project scheduling activities like setting work in progress limits and implementing project buffers. This course also covers recommended project time management processes for monitoring and tracking progress at both the iteration and project levels. This course also introduces you to key risk management and product quality, testing, and integration strategies you can use when managing Agile projects to help ensure your project creates and maintains the intended value as it progresses. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)(r) exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
10 videos |
44m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Agile Stakeholder Engagement and Team Development
Agile projects are only successful if the Agile team is cohesive, productive, and engaged. When managing projects for your organization, you must encourage active involvement to ensure your team has a clear understanding of project requirements and stakeholder expectations. In this course, you'll learn about team leadership and the characteristics of effective stakeholder engagement when managing Agile projects. This course also introduces you to some important Agile project management tools and techniques, such as team development strategies and developmental mastery models. Finally, this course covers effective communication tools and the benefits of using facilitation techniques like Agile games to foster collaboration and cooperation in the Agile team. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)(r) exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
10 videos |
43m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Agile Key Exam Concepts
Agile projects use many of the tools and techniques from lean project management in order to ensure that processes are as efficient as possible. Agile project management tools are often simple and highly visual, where a collocated team can easily access them. In this course, you'll learn about key Agile exam concepts such as muda or waste, the Kanban system, and process efficiency. You'll explore other concepts that are critical when managing Agile projects, including work in progress, Little's Law, and the product vision. This course also introduces you to the benefits of collocated Agile teams when managing projects, including osmotic learning and communication. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)(r) exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
9 videos |
42m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
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Book
The Apprentice and the Project Manager: Lessons for Developing an Agile MindsetDrawing upon principles from Lean, this book will enable readers to get started on a journey to develop an Agile Mindset that is critical for survival of today's leaders and organizations within or outside of technology.
39m
By Kamal Manglani
Book
Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and ImplementationCombining agile project management methodologies and a practical life cycle approach, this book offers pioneering tools and techniques to ensure change projects or strategies are delivered successfully and that benefits are realized earlier on in the process.
4h 12m
By Melanie Franklin
Book
Agile for Project ManagersComplete with a list of agile training providers, this book will help certified project managers make a smooth transition to agile project management and will provide newcomers with the basic knowledge needed to pass the PMI-ACP exam, the first time around.
3h 16m
By Denise Canty
Book
Leading Agile TeamsPresenting a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset, this book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams, and is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.
4h 16m
By Doug Rose
Book
Effective Complex Project Management: An Adaptive Agile Framework for Delivering Business ValueIn the form of an adaptive complex project framework, this detailed book offers a proven solution to managing any project that must succeed in the face of organizational complexity and market uncertainty.
5h 51m
By Robert K. Wysocki
Book
The Agile Organization: How to Build an Innovative, Sustainable and Resilient BusinessCombining case studies, self-assessment tools, guidelines, and practical checklists with theory, this book focuses on how to build both agility and resilience at individual, team, and organizational levels, and puts the process of developing agile strategy, structures, and processes into the big picture context.
6h 6m
By Linda Holbeche
Book
PRINCE2 Agile: An Implementation Pocket Guide: Step-By-Step Advice for Every Project TypeExplaining how the structured, management-driven PRINCE2 project governance framework is able to work cohesively with team-driven, quality-focused, responsive Agile methods, this guide clearly discusses how these approaches combine to provide the governance, due diligence and accountability that senior management requires, as well as the responsiveness and flexibility that project delivery teams need in order to do their jobs most effectively.
1h 8m
By Jamie Lynn Cooke
Book
Agile Project Management For Dummies, 2nd EditionProviding a simple, step-by-step guide to Agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques, this book shows product and project managers how to complete and implement projects more quickly than ever.
6h 38m
By Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller
Book
PMI-ACP Agile Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam GuideFeaturing more than 240 accurate practice questions with in-depth answer explanations, this comprehensive book offers 100% coverage of all current exam objectives and shows, step-by-step, how to successfully set up and configure an Agile framework-based project.
7h 34m
By Joseph Phillips
Book
Agile Project Management In Easy Steps, 2nd EditionAn essential guide for anyone new to agile projects and a valuable source of inspiration for the more experienced, this book explains the key principles, techniques and processes of agile project management, working through an entire project, explaining the main activities and deliverables.
2h 56m
By David Morris, John Carroll
BOOK SUMMARY
The Agile Leader: How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital Age, Second EditionThe Agile Leader, Second Edition is for all leaders looking to successfully navigate increasing digital disruption in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to develop innovative teams capable of delivering trailblazing breakthroughs. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Simon Hayward
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and OrganizationsThe Agility Shift provides leaders at all levels in an organization with the mindset, strategy, and practical tools to make them agile. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 26s
By Pamela Meyer
Audiobook
Agile Project Management for DummiesThis audio edition enables you to understand and apply Agile principles for faster, more accurate development.
10h 15m 41s
By Mark C. Layton
Audiobook
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow FrameworkThis audio edition introduces the Flow Framework - a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery.
6h 59m
By Mik Kersten
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Agile Leader: How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital Age, Second EditionThe Agile Leader, Second Edition is for all leaders looking to successfully navigate increasing digital disruption in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to develop innovative teams capable of delivering trailblazing breakthroughs. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 7s
By Simon Hayward
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