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Course Description

The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Agile Fundamentals. The course teaches students how to deliver and maximize value with an adaptive approach and highlights distinctions and similarities between agile and traditional/predictive/waterfall project management.  Throughout the course, students acquire the essential knowledge on agile values, principles, practices, tools, and benefits of applying a lean-agile approach within their organizations. Through readings, videos, lectures, experiential learning, and demonstrations, students gain understanding of agile concepts and essential Agile skills. 

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

 

  1. Explain the value of Agility and apply the Agile Mindset/Scrum Theory in your business setting  

  2. Demonstrate how to structure work for delivering value iteratively and incrementally, including Product Vision, Roadmap, Epics, Features, and User Stories  

  3. Apply adaptive planning techniques to maximize value delivery, including prioritization of the overall Product Backlog, relative estimation of backlog items, and value delivery via Sprint Backlogs 

  4. Define Agile roles and ceremonies to support Scrum. 

  5. Recognize how to drive continuous improvement using Agile metrics, including value delivery and team performance data.  

  6. Appraise challenges for scaling agile teams within the enterprise  

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Type
Live Online
Days
W, Th
Time
9:00AM to 4:00PM
Dates
Jun 05, 2024 to Jun 06, 2024
Schedule and Location
Contact Hours
14.0
Course Tuition
Tuition non-credit $1,220.00
Instructors
Section Notes

Welcome to Live Online - Intensive Learning Experience!

You will complete all course requirements for the Certificate in Project Management within 2 weeks.

Using the Live Online platform, Georgetown faculty deliver real-time online exceptional educational experiences based on a human-centered approach that integrates the needs of professional learners and the possibilities of technology.

Live online classes are small to support highly interactive engaged learning and collaboration, deliver the same learning objectives as classroom courses, and count towards the completion of a Georgetown certificate.

You will experience:

  • live lectures, discussions, activities, and the dynamic exploration of topics and concepts
  • the immediacy of live connections with the instructor and your peers to challenge and encourage innovative thinking and the meaningful exploration of ideas
  • networking and the creation of social connections with other professional learners in a global classroom
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