Agile Project Management E-Learning

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Course content

PM Track 1: Software Project Analyst

Agile for Software Development: Lean, Agile, & Scrum Methodologies

Course: 44 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Lean Overview
• Agile Overview
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile vs. Lean
• Scrum Overview
• Lean Benefits
• Agile Benefits
• Scrum Benefits
• Waterfall vs. Agile
• Transition Best Practice
• Select the Best Approach
• Exercise: Lean, Agile, and Scrum

Project Management Tools: Understanding PM Tools

Course: 1 Hour, 3 Minutes

• Course Overview
• PM Tools Overview
• Why Use PM Tools
• Select the Best PM Tools
• Key Features of PM Tools
• Project Management Software
• Collaboration Tools
• Personal Productivity
• Team Gantt: Gantt Charts
• Trello: Kanban Boards
• Basecamp: Real-Time Messaging
• Wrike: Knowledge Base
• File Sharing: Dropbox
• Asana: List View
• Freedom: Productivity App
• Exercise: Project Management Tools

Project Management Tools: Understanding the Collaboration Tools

Course: 50 Minutes

• Course Overview
• The Requirement for Collaboration Tools
• Considerations for Agile Teams
• Considerations for Virtual Teams
• Benefits and Challenges of Video Conferencing Tools
• Benefits and Challenges of Messaging Tools
• Benefits and Challenges of Knowledge Sharing Tools
• Benefits and Challenges of Resource Sharing Tools
• Benefits and Challenges of Work Management Tools
• Realizing the Benefits of Video Conferencing Tools
• Realizing the Benefits of Knowledge Sharing Tools
• Realizing the Benefits of Messaging Tools
• Realizing the Benefits of Resource Sharing Tools
• Realizing the Benefits of Work Management Tools
• Exercise: Choosing a Collaboration Tool

Software PM Communication: Software Project Management Communication Skills

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Overview Project Communication
• Effective Communication Skills
• Barriers to Effective Communication
• Overcoming Communication Challenges
• Communication for Diverse Teams
• Software Project Communication
• Agile Project Communication
• Agile vs. Traditional Project Communication
• Effective Agile Project Communication
• Communication Best Practices for Software PMs
• Create a Project Communication Plan
• Exercise: Software Project Communication

Software Requirements Planning

Course: 1 Hour, 3 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Software Requirements Overview
• Functional and Non-functional Requirements
• Requirements Management Processes
• Requirements Planning and Development
• Requirements Gathering and Elicitation
• Requirements Definition
• Software Requirements Specification
• From Requirements to Product Vision
• From Requirements to User Stories
• From Requirements to Processes
• Work with Software Requirements Specification
• Exercise: Fundamentals of Software Requirements

Software Development Concepts: Software Development Glossary

Course: 43 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Key Concepts in Project Management
• Key Concepts in Agile Project Management
• Key Terms in Agile Development
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Software Testing
• SDLC Deliverables
• Software Team Roles and Responsibilities
• Agile Software Team Roles
• Sources to Keep Current
• Materials on the Web for Staying Current
• Frequently Encountered Software Concepts

PM Track 2: Software Project Lead

Project Evaluation: Defining Success Metrics

Course: 41 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Role of Project Analyst
• Overview of Metrics
• Essentials for Project Metrics
• Types of Agile Metrics
• Using Agile Metrics
• Deciding the Right Metric
• Framing a Metric
• Setting a Benchmark for the Metric
• Evaluating Project using Metrics
• Reporting Information from Metrics
• Reviewing and Improving Metrics
• Course Summary

Skills for Project Analysts: Negotiation Skills

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Overview of Negotiation Skills
• Benefits of Negotiations
• Negotiating to Resolve Conflicts
• Stages of Negotiation
• Negotiation Techniques
• Negotiator Styles
• Collaborative Negotiation
• Negotiation Steps
• Negotiating Effectively
• Handling Obstacles in Negotiations
• Avoiding Common Mistakes in Negotiations
• Course Summary

Interpreting Stakeholder Needs: Managing and Engaging Stakeholders

Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Defining Stakeholders
• Process to Manage Stakeholders
• Types of Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Identifying Needs
• Collecting Stakeholder Requirements
• Probing to Understand Requirements
• Tools for Documenting Requirements
• Communicating with Stakeholders
• Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders
• Avoiding Common Mistakes in Stakeholder Engagement
• Course Summary

Business Analysis for Project Management: Practices for Early Project Stages

Course: 55 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Business Analysis Defined
• Project Analyst as Business Analyst
• Analyzing Business Needs
• Engaging Key Stakeholders
• Analyzing Competitors
• Generating Ideas
• Analyzing Cost versus Benefit
• Studying Feasibility
• Creating a Business Case
• The Empathy Map
• Defining the Product
• Course Summary

Business Analysis for Project Management: Practices for Later Project Stages

Course: 48 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Creating the Scope Statement
• Framing the Business Analysis Plan
• Creating Process Flow Diagrams
• Establishing Responsibilities
• Tracking Defects through Reviews
• Failure Mode Effect Analysis
• Cause and Effect Analysis
• User Acceptance Testing
• Quality Assurance versus Quality Control
• Data Analysis
• Reporting on Business Analysis
• Business Analysis with Continuous Improvement
• Course Summary

Risk Management: Project Risk Assessment

Course: 51 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Risk Assessment Defined
• Project Analyst Role in Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment in Software Projects
• Key Terms in Risk Assessment
• Types of Risk
• Techniques for Identifying Risks
• Risk Classification
• Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Risk Register for Managing Risks
• Strategies for Managing Risk
• Risk Mitigation Best Practices
• Evaluating Efficiency of Risk Analysis
• Course Summary

PM Track 3: Software Project Manager

Agile Software Development: Agile Development Life Cycle

Course: 1 Hour, 26 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Agile Project Management
• Agile Development Process
• Agile Manager Roles and Responsibilities
• Agile Member Roles and Responsibilities
• Agile Best Practices
• Agile Teams
• Agile Collaboration
• Agile Artifacts
• Agile Management Tools
• Agile Life Cycle
• Continuous Integration in Agile
• Agile Assessment
• Exercise: Agile Project Management

Agile Software Development: Agile Project Management Techniques

Course: 1 Hour, 6 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Agile Project Management Techniques
• Feature-Driven Development and Agile Modeling
• Self Organizing Teams
• Agile Project Management Frameworks
• Scrum Framework
• Kanban and Lean
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Agile Project Management Tools
• Source Controls Tools
• Continuous Integration Tools
• Team Management Tools
• Agile Project Management Benefits
• Exercise: Agile Tools and Techniques

Project Management: Scrum Framework for Software Development

Course: 48 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Understanding Scrum and Agile
• Roles in Scrum
• Scrum Activities
• Scrum Artifacts
• Sprint Planning
• Scrum Backlogs
• Definition of Done
• Scrum Architecture and Design
• Collaboration in Scrum
• Scrum Test Driven Development
• Scrum Refactoring
• Scrum Continuous Integration
• Course Summary

Decision Making for Software Project Managers

Course: 54 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Principles of Decision-Making
• Requirements for Fast Decision-Making
• Accelerating Decision-Making
• Obtaining the Right Information
• Determining What's Relevant
• How to Obtain Current Information
• Looking Forward to Make Decisions
• Adopting a Fail-Fast Approach
• Tweaking the Decision Hierarchy
• Decision-Making in Agile
• Why We Make Poor Decisions
• Traps to Avoid
• Course Summary

Software Data Analysis: Project Management Metrics

Course: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Traditional Versus Agile Project Management
• Software Project Management Metrics
• Agile Project Management Metrics
• Agile Team Metrics
• Project Management Decision Making Metrics
• Useful Software Project Metrics
• Software Metrics Benefits
• Software Metrics Pitfalls
• Agile Project Success Metrics
• Continuous Development Metrics
• Software Project Management Tools
• JIRA Dashboard
• Course Summary

Project Meetings: Agile Project Meetings

Course: 1 Hour, 2 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Running an Effective Meeting
• Meeting Best Practices
• Traditional Meetings
• Agile Team Meetings
• Sprint Planning Meeting
• Daily Stand-up Meeting
• Sprint Reviews
• Running a Virtual Meeting
• Virtual Meeting Best Practices
• Managing Meeting Action Items
• Conference Software
• GoToMeeting Conference Software
• Exercise: Conducting Effective Team Meetings

Stakeholder Communication: Software Projects & Stakeholder Communication

Course: 44 Minutes

• Course Overview
• The Importance of Communication
• Identifying Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Roles
• Stakeholder Rights and Responsibilities
• Accessing Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Challenges
• Agile and Stakeholder Communication
• Stakeholder Communication Planning
• Active Listening and Customer Feedback
• Strategies for Working Together
• Stakeholder Communication Best Practices
• Course Summary

Project Management Needs vs. Expectations

Course: 45 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Understanding Needs
• Collecting Requirements
• Balancing Expectations and Requirements
• Defining Priorities
• The Challenge of Balance
• The Role of the PM in Expectation Setting
• Avoiding the Noise and the Buzz
• Identifying Business Needs
• Using Agile to Understand Needs
• Strategies for Needs and Expectations
• Setting Needs and Managing Expectations
• Resetting Stakeholder Expectations
• Course Summary

Advanced Agile: Software Project Management

Course: 1 Hour, 34 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Agile Philosophy at Organizational Level
• Comparison of Agile Frameworks
• Understanding the Hybrid Agile Mode
• Understanding the Bimodal Agile Model
• Understanding the Lean Model of Agile
• Identifying the Best Fit Agile Framework
• Magnifying the Agile Benefits
• Scaling Agile for the Organization
• SAFe for Agile
• Agile Estimation Methods
• Governance Framework for Adopting Agile
• Building an Agile Culture
• Course Summary

Advanced Agile: Software Development Concepts

Course: 1 Hour, 26 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Managing Scope with Agile Tools
• Defining Best Practices for Agile Software Design
• Strategizing for Agile User Interface Design
• Extreme Programming and Agile
• Continuous Integration
• Pair Programming
• Test-Driven Development
• Code Refactoring
• Agile Coach
• Working with Distributed Teams
• Moving Towards Agile Maturity
• Course Summary

PM Track 4: Senior Software Project Manager

Software Projects: Recruiting the Project Team

Course: 47 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Composing the Right Software Team
• Challenges in Recruiting for Software Projects
• Requisite Skills for Successful Teams
• Exploring Recruitment Sources
• Making Job Postings Count
• Planning the Evaluation Process
• Evaluating Communication Skills
• Evaluating Technical Skills
• Choosing the Right Interviewing Skills
• Finding the Right Software Project Manager
• Onboarding Skills
• Retaining the Software Team
• Course Summary

Advanced Agile: Tools & Techniques

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Product Backlog
• Managing the Product Backlog
• User Story Estimation
• Sprint Backlog
• Managing the Sprint Backlog
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Reviews
• Sprint Retrospective
• Agile performance metrics
• Scrum board and charts
• Kanban board and charts
• Course Summary

Advanced Agile: Leadership Techniques

Course: 1 Hour, 9 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Agile vs. Traditional Projects
• Agile Leadership Focus
• Agile Leadership Best Practices
• Scaling Agile Projects
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Disciplined Agile Delivery
• Large Scale Scrum
• Risk Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Agile Team Dynamics
• Agile Coach
• Agile in the Real World
• Course Summary

Advanced Scrum for Project Management

Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Role of Collaboration in Scrum
• Improving as a Product Owner
• Improving as a Scrum Master
• Developing Self-organized Teams
• Identifying Challenges in Scaling Scrum
• Scrum of Scrums
• Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
• Understanding the Impediments to Successful Sprint
• Using Timeboxing Effectively for Scrum
• Scrum Coach
• Advanced Scrum Practices Using JIRA
• Course Summary

Business Intelligence: Project Data Analysis

Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Role of Collaboration in Scrum
• Improving as a Product Owner
• Improving as a Scrum Master
• Developing Self-organized Teams
• Identifying Challenges in Scaling Scrum
• Scrum of Scrums
• Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
• Understanding the Impediments to Successful Sprint
• Using Timeboxing Effectively for Scrum
• Scrum Coach
• Advanced Scrum Practices Using JIRA
• Course Summary
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Business Orientation: Strategic Organizational Goals

Course: 50 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Strategic Goals, Vision, Mission, and Plan
• Approaches for Organizational Strategic Goals
• Strategic Planning Process
• Assessing the Current Business Environment
• Drafting Vision and Mission Statement
• Framing SMART Business Objectives
• Ensuring Alignment of Objectives with Goals
• Planning to Meet Set Objectives
• Metrics to Evaluate Strategic Plan
• Making the Strategic Plan Effective
• Revising the Strategic Plan
• Course Summary

Business Strategy: Managing Organizational Value

Course: 1 Hour

• Course Overview
• Understanding Value
• Delivering Value
• Types of Value
• Value Drivers for the Organization
• Value-based Management Processes
• Value Analysis and Value Engineering
• Stakeholder Perception of Value
• Ethical Leadership
• Working in a Global World
• Benefits Realization
• Performance-based Earned Value
• Course Summary

Agile Hybrid Approaches

Course: 48 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Project Management Methodologies
• Reasons for Using a Hybrid Methodology
• Popular Traditional-Agile Hybrid Models
• Case Studies
• Using a Hybrid while Transitioning to Agile
• Agile-Agile Hybrids
• Agile Project Suitability
• Project Tailoring
• Agile Values and Mindset
• Agile Manifesto
• Course Summary

Value-driven Delivery: Delivering Value in Agile Projects

Course: 1 Hour, 6 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Agile Values and Principles
• Project Selection and Business Value
• Shared Product Vision
• The Product Backlog
• Adaptive Planning
• Managing Risk
• Agile Tools
• Productivity and Work in Progress
• Waste (Muda)
• Measuring Performance
• Problem Detection and Resolution
• Course Summary