This is an expert level course designed for people with prior experience and fundamental training in agile and project management.

If you need to learn more about agile practices, we recommend our Agile Fundamentals course as a lead-in.

During this course you will learn about:

• The background to and the driving forces for adopting agile
• The role of the project manager in an agile team
• How to structure and coordinate self-organising teams
• How to use agile techniques and tools to plan, monitor and manage agile projects, programs and portfolios
• The importance of value-driven delivery and continuous customer and user feedback in increasing efficiency
• How to provide guidance and a decision-making framework to ensure their continuous alignment with organisational goals
• How to understand and manage stakeholders needs
• How to use adaptive planning to maximise flow

• Agile principles and practices
• Project team formation, ‘teaming’ culture, and self-organising teams
• Stakeholder analysis, management, and engagement
• Collaboration, coordination, and communication
• Complex adaptive systems and adaptive planning
• Delivery management
• Agile project flow
• Defining value
• Governance
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Performance metrics

• Managers and executives responsible for software and solutions development
• Iteration managers and scrum masters working on agile projects
• Project managers responsible for software and solutions development projects
• Product Owners and Value Managers
• Business analysts gathering requirements for software and solutions development
• Team leaders and developers building software systems
• Business managers who have to sponsor and are responsible for the introduction of new computer-based information systems

ICAgile accredited course: The ICP-APM Certification from ICAgile is granted on the successful completion of this course. This certification is part of the ICAgile Delivery Management Track along with our Agile Fundamentals and Delivery at Scale courses.

This course will contribute 14 PMI® professional development units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (12 technical hours and 2 leadership hours).

This course is delivered in partnership with SoftEd.