About

This certification focuses on core components of agile project management as distinct from traditional project management, and on equipping course participants with strategies and techniques for successful Lean and Agile project implementation. A servant leadership mindset and approach is critical to empowering agile teams to produce great results. Students will practice the role of agile project manager as a facilitator of agile practices towards achieving desired outcomes. This certification also takes a much more in-depth look at the fundamental agile concepts of adaptive planning, customer collaboration, and value-driven delivery in dynamic and sometimes highly constrained environments. In addition, the learning outcomes address agile approaches to standard project management processes such as metrics, reporting, and contract management.

Training helps to:

• Learn to consistently and structurally approach software development in an organization
• Start work on a new product using Agile management
• Transform the work in existing projects

Training is useful for:

• CTO, COO, heads of development;
• Project office employees;
• Heads of projects and team leaders;
• Scrum masters and Agile coaches;
• Pre-sales specialists, account managers;
• Business analysts and other team members transitioning to work in the Agile way.

What you get as a participant:

• 15 hours of training: Three-day delivery (six or three hours in duration).
• APM Certificate: Participants who actively work throughout the training receive an ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Project and Delivery Management international certificate and a personal profile on ICAgile.com.
• At the end of the training, each participant is invited to a closed group on Facebook, where they can ask the trainers any questions, as well as learn about exclusive offers.
• Post-pack: A letter with additional materials, a list of articles and literature for self-study.
• Access to Facilitation Tools: You will get access to facilitation tools and PDF files with the results of the exercises.

In the program:

Agile for people

Organizing a comfortable workflow to maximize the potential of all participants in the software development process:

• Building an effective team
• Creating a healthy team atmosphere
• The role of the project head in Agile
• Team participation in the planning and evaluation process
• Team productivity, metrics, project health evaluation
• Evaluation of individual work based on feedback and ways to combat competition within the team

Agile for the process

Managing software development from the Agile approach's point of view:

• Comparing traditional project management to Agile
• Project management review from the Agile perspective
• Planning of iterations and releases
• Requirements, risks, and quality from the Agile perspective
• Rethinking classical limitations: time, cost, scope of work
• Concepts of lead time, loss, and value of the project
• Scope of work evaluation techniques

Agile for business

Organizing beneficial interaction between the contractor, the customer and the end-user:

• Continuous feedback between teams and customers as a tool for working with risks
• Work with third-party suppliers
• Agile contracts