Agile Project and Product Management

4 Hours of Video Instruction

Description

In the Agile Project and Product Management course, you will acquire critical skills enabling you and your organization to build customer-centric products ensuring fast and high-quality delivery. This course is your one-stop solution to get that promotion, no matter the job title—from a software developer, marketing specialist, or startup founder to a product manager, Scrum Master, and eventually to a company leader. And most importantly, you will acquire the skills to build innovative products that delight your customers.

Overview

In this video course, you will learn why Agile product and projects management form the foundation of a successful business. You will master the skills of incremental delivery of products that delight customers, including the fundamentals of creating high-performance teams and the ability to validate product hypotheses. In addition, you will acquire skills that made Silicon Valley companies so successful and allowed for rapid business growth.

Throughout the video, fundamental Agile concepts are coupled with real-life examples and case studies. In addition, there are hands-on exercises that will allow you to check your knowledge and develop pragmatic skills.

About the Instructors

Mariya Breyter brings over 20 years of leadership experience to the Agile and Lean community. Her passion for creating high-performance organizations had produced success after success in companies ranging from Big 4 consulting and Fortune 100 insurance and financial services firms to Silicon Valley giants. Mariya has a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics followed by a Post-Doctorate at Stanford University. Besides her full-time product and project management jobs, Mariya teaches Agile Project Management, Project Management Principles in IT, and other graduate and professional studies courses at NYU. She is a frequent conference speaker, including a keynote at Product World 2021 and regular presentations at the annual Agile Conference, Agile DevOps, Project Management Institute events, meetups, and user groups. Her article was published in the Best Agile Articles 2020 collection. When Mariya is not sharing her knowledge with the community, she is most likely busy running her family in Scrums or joining her kids for a standup. In her spare time, Mariya runs her website, agileleantransformation.com.

Learn How To

• Establish the business value of delivering products and services incrementally in your organization
• Identify methods of collaborating with the customer to deliver products that meet their needs, which you can immediately apply in your everyday job
• Define the “how” and “why” behind successful products via case studies from best-in-class technology and product companies, and reproduce real-life examples that apply to your area of knowledge
• Boost your career via analyzing the Agile framework as it applies to small businesses or giant corporations in your industry
• Gain high-in-demand Agile skills that will immediately boost your resume and increase your employability
• Acquire pragmatic knowledge directly applicable to your job, including driving organizational change, implementing design thinking in your professional area, and establishing or strengthening Agile delivery in your company
• Prepare for leading industry certifications in Agile product and project management that will give you a competitive advantage in the modern job market and provide you with opportunities to take your career to the next level
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Who Should Take This Course

software developers, engineers, managers, project managers, product managers, consultants, or anyone involved in application development, recent college graduates and MBA students who are interested in pursuing careers in product or project management or IT-specific roles, other product and project management professionals at the beginning or mid-career, including those who are interested in pivoting their careers, and IT professionals interested in boosting their resume, advancing their career, and looking to expand their career opportunities.

Course Requirements

Some familiarity with modern software engineering is expected but not required.

Lesson descriptions

After the introduction to Agile frameworks in Lesson 1, we will dedicate Lessons 2 through 5 to discuss the foundations of organizational goal-setting, customer-centric product management, working backwards from customer needs, and requirements gathering and scope definition in Agile. In Lessons 6 and 7, we will discuss the foundations of iterative and incremental delivery, Agile frameworks, planning and estimation in Agile, and scaling Agility. Finally, in Lesson 8, we will map all this knowledge to your role and your career development—from basics to professional certifications and job interviews.

About Pearson Video Training

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