Course Summary
What’s the Future of Agile Project Management will help you better understand the fundamental transformation that is going on in the Project Management profession as a result of the influence of Agile. The use of Agile methodologies is growing at an incredible rate, the basic way we do traditional plan-driven project management hasn’t changed significantly since the 1950’s and 1960’s and the rate of technology change today is making a pure plan-driven approach very cumbersome and impractical to implement in many real-world situations. That doesn’t mean that traditional plan-driven project methodologies are obsolete and no longer useful; however, within a relatively short amount of time, a project manager who only knows how to use traditional plan-driven methodologies will be at a serious disadvantage in the job market.
That’s a big challenge for many project managers who have been schooled and indoctrinated in a plan-driven project management approach because Agile changes the very nature of how we do project management in many environments. This course will help you understand the impact of these changes and learn how to adapt your career to move into a high-impact Agile Project Management role.
Student Reviews
- “For me it confirms that the waterfall-agile continuum is a shift in leadership styles and skills for waterfall Product Managers, Project Managers and Teams. This will help to initiate simpler and more constructive discussions.”
- “Real, practical and relate-able examples that bring the concepts together are really useful. “
- ” Excellent course, really enjoyed the content and the learning’s.”
- ” This was a terrific course! It helped me to understand concepts of how to apply the appropriate blended predictive/adaptive approach to a project. Also the format was very helpful, where reading the written course notes provided, along with listening to the lecture, together helped in gaining/understanding/retaining information. “
Special Note
This course is part of an overall curriculum that is designed around helping students develop the skills required for a high-impact Agile Project Management role. Most students will want to take the complete curriculum rather than individual courses. The complete curriculum should be taken in the following order:
- Agile PM 101 – Learn the Truth About Agile versus Waterfall
- Agile PM 102 – What’s the Future of Agile Project Management?
- Agile PM 201 – Understanding Agile at a Deeper Level
- Agile PM 202 – Introduction to Agile Project Management
- Agile PM 301 – Mastering Agile Project Management
- Agile PM 401 – Advanced Agile Project Management
- Agile PM 402 – Enterprise-level Agile Project Management