Applied Scrum for Project Management

Overview

The Applied Scrum for Project Management  Certificate from EdX in partnership with University System of Maryland - USMx and is part of the Agile Project Management Professional Certificate.

Scrum and Agile are often considered synonymous, and there is good reason. Scrum embodies the simplest and most pure approach to managing project work at the team level and is employed by over half of all Agile practitioners across all industries. Consider the below statistics: 

• Today nearly 100% of IT organizations use Agile and many other industries are quickly following

• The likelihood of being on a Scrum or Scrum-like project is quickly approaching 50/50 or better over time.  

In this course we start by learning the key project management processes, roles, mechanics, and philosophies behind Scrum. This gives you the basic understanding you'll need in the Mastering Agile Professional Certificate program to learn principles at the heart of all Agile frameworks. This will provide the basis for understanding Agile in its purest form over four weeks exploring Why, Who, How, and finally What Scrum looks like applied in the real world.

What you will learn

• Why Agile is taking over: history, case studies, and proof Agile works better

• Who uses Agile based on industry scale, stakeholders, and engineering

• How to run a successful Scrum team for speed, innovation, leadership, and control

• Scrum team makeup, user story writing, sprint planning, execution, and retro tools

• What Scrum looks like at scale, its alternatives, and how to avoid pitfalls over time