ICAgile Project Management (ICP-APM)

In this Agile Project Management training course, you will develop advanced project management skills to serve as the most effective servant leader your agile teams have ever had, enabling them to deliver what customers want with greater speed and quality than before. This is an advanced course for professionals already familiar with agile methodologies who want to take their capabilities to the next level. All agile project management practices covered in this course are fully documented and cross-referenced in the course materials, giving you a resource for continued learning long after the course ends.

How You Will Benefit:

• Understand agile project management principles and practices that transform team performance and elevate customer satisfaction
• Learn proven techniques for developing high-performance agile teams
• Apply agile estimating techniques that produce faster, more accurate estimates and support effective iteration and release planning
• Establish and communicate clear expectations around roles, responsibilities, and accountability for your agile team

What You Will Cover:

The Reality of Agile Projects

• Viewing your project through an agile lens
• Working productively with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Identifying where traditional project management approaches fall short in agile contexts

Managing Constraints

• Leveraging constraints strategically to improve outcomes
• Managing trade-offs that enhance quality
• Identifying and managing project risk proactively
• Managing budget, vendor relationships, and contracts within an agile framework

Understanding Agile Team Performance and Metrics

• Measuring team performance meaningfully
• Applying productivity metrics to gauge team velocity
• Determining the overall health of your project

Establishing and Empowering Teams

• Creating the conditions for high-performing teams
• Working with project charters, team charters, and working agreements
• Building an empowered, self-organizing team
• Practicing servant leadership and cultivating trust
• Developing team members and managing shared resources

Maximizing Value Through Agile Planning and Estimating

• Understanding adaptive planning and its advantages
• Using your plan as a tool to deliver quality and value
• Determining how much planning investment is appropriate upfront
• Applying progressive elaboration to refine plans over time
• Practicing continuous planning with transparency and collaboration
• Applying estimating techniques appropriate for agile teams
• Conducting iteration and release planning with confidence

Communication and Collaboration

• Creating meaningful stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle