Agile Project Management - Introduction

A practical, beginner-friendly guide to Scrum, agile planning, and leading agile teams - from product vision to sprint delivery

20 Lectures 1h 36m Beginner
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What You Will Learn in This Agile Project Management Course

  • Understand agile principles and how the agile project life cycle works in practice
  • 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

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

What This Free Agile Project Management Course Covers

Agile project management is now the standard approach for software, product, and cross-functional teams. This free course gives you a structured introduction to agile - covering the Scrum framework, core principles, and every practical tool you need to plan and run a real 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. Every major Scrum role, artifact, and ceremony is covered so you finish the course ready to lead an agile team - not just understand the theory.

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.

This Course Includes

  • 20 on-demand lectures
  • 1h 36m of video
  • Free access, no payment required
  • Self-paced, learn on your own schedule
  • Downloadable project management templates
  • Worth 1.25 PDUs toward PMI recertification, see the PDU claiming guide

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

Course Curriculum

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

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  • Self-paced
  • 1.25 PDUs
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