Understand agile principles and how the agile project life cycle works in practice
Course profile · Agile & Scrum
Agile Project Management - Introduction
A practical, beginner-friendly guide to Scrum, agile planning, and leading agile teams - from product vision to sprint delivery
Free1h 36m20 lessonsBeginner
Outcome-focused
What You Will Learn in This Agile Project Management Course
Run Scrum - roles, ceremonies, artifacts, and sprint cycles from start to finish
Build a product vision and translate it into a roadmap and feature breakdown structure
Create and prioritize a product backlog using user stories, epics, and the Kano model
Estimate effort with story points and plan releases and sprints with confidence
Monitor an agile project using proven tracking tools and techniques
Apply risk management and quality management within an agile framework
Lead and coach an agile team as a Scrum Master or Product Owner
About this course
What This Free Agile Project Management Course Covers
Agile project management is widely used by software, product, and cross-functional teams. This free course gives you a structured introduction to Agile, covering the Scrum framework, core principles, and practical tools used to plan and run an Agile project.
You will learn how to take a product vision and turn it into a working roadmap, build and prioritize a product backlog with user stories, plan and run sprints, and track project progress. The course covers major Scrum roles, artifacts, and ceremonies, giving you a practical foundation for contributing to an Agile team.
The course also covers risk management, quality management, and HR practices specific to agile - areas most beginner courses skip entirely. You leave with downloadable templates ready to use on real projects.
The course ends with a full project example where you apply every tool covered, step by step. No experience required - this course is built for complete beginners and for experienced waterfall project managers who want to add agile to their skill set.
Is this for you?
Who this course is for
- Complete beginners with no prior project management experience
- Waterfall project managers looking to add agile and Scrum to their skill set
- Team leads and professionals preparing to move into a Scrum Master role
- Anyone looking to get ready for agile certification or their next promotion
Before you start
Requirements
- No project management experience needed - this course starts from the basics
- Basic familiarity with working in a team environment is helpful but not required
Inside the course · 20 lessons
Course outline
Course Introduction
What the course covers and how it is structured
Introduction to Agile
What agile is, and the problem it was built to solve
Traditional vs Agile
A direct comparison, and when each approach fits
Benefits of Agile
What agile actually delivers, and what it does not promise
Scrum
What Scrum is for, and how its cycle works
Scrum Roles and Artifacts
The three roles, the artifacts, and the decision each role owns
Product Vision
Setting a vision the team can plan against rather than admire
Feature Breakdown Structure
Breaking a vision down into features you can order and size
Product Backlog
Building a backlog and keeping it ordered by customer value
User Story
Writing a story that carries the role, the action and the benefit
Agile Planning
Planning releases and sprints without pretending to certainty
Estimating
Story points and relative sizing, and why points are not hours
Release and Sprint Planning
Turning estimates into a plan the team can commit to
Monitoring the Project
Tracking progress with burndown and velocity
Agile Quality Management
Building quality in rather than inspecting it at the end
Risk Management in Agile
Handling risk inside an agile framework
HR in Agile
What changes for people management on an agile team
Managing an Agile Team
Coaching, conflict, and keeping a team self-organising
Project Example
A worked example applying the whole framework end to end
Final Video
A short close, and what to do next
Included materials
More than the videos
- Downloadable project management templates
Professional development
PDU information
This course lists 1.25 PDU. Review PDU guidance before claiming credit.
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