3-Day Intensive Course for Project Managers Adopting Agile Delivery

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your journey from traditional PM to Agile value delivery:

Day 1: Foundations — Scrum, Agile Mindset & PM Role Shift
Understand the principles behind Agile and Scrum. Learn how the project manager’s role evolves in a Scrum environment and how to lead without command-and-control structures.

Day 2: Planning, Tracking & Delivering in Scrum Projects
Master Agile planning — from product roadmaps to sprint tracking. Learn backlog management, estimation, velocity forecasting, and how to measure progress in iterative delivery.

Day 3: Stakeholder Management, Risk & Reporting in Agile Contexts
Build trust through transparency. Learn how to communicate status, manage changing requirements, and report value — not just activity — to business stakeholders.

Course Overview

Project management doesn’t disappear in Scrum — it transforms. This hands-on course trains traditional project managers to adapt to Agile environments using Scrum values, workflows, and metrics.

You’ll learn how to enable delivery without micromanaging, lead cross-functional teams, and align stakeholders around progress that truly reflects value.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand and apply Scrum roles, artifacts, and ceremonies

• Support Agile teams as a servant leader or delivery coordinator

• Plan releases using product backlogs, velocity, and Agile estimation

• Report progress using burnup charts, dashboards, and outcomes

• Manage risks, dependencies, and change in fast-moving teams

• Bridge the gap between delivery teams and executive stakeholders

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1 — Foundations: Scrum, Agile Mindset & PM Role Shift

• Waterfall vs. Agile: What changes, what stays

• Scrum roles: PO, SM, Developers — Where does the PM fit?

• Agile principles and the PM mindset shift

• Project vision vs. product vision: alignment strategies

• Governance in Agile: minimal yet effective

• Workshop: Map your current project model into Scrum

Tools: Scrum Guide, Miro, Agile charter templates
Focus: Mindset • Roles • Governance

Day 2 — Planning, Tracking & Delivering in Scrum Projects

• Backlog management: user stories, epics, themes

• Agile estimation: story points, t-shirt sizing

• Velocity, burnup, cycle time — tracking real progress

• Sprint planning, release planning, and roadmap thinking

• Capacity planning and managing change

• Workshop: Build a delivery roadmap with velocity forecasting

Tools: Jira, Trello, MS Planner, Agile dashboards
Focus: Planning • Forecasting • Progress Tracking

Day 3 — Stakeholder Management, Risk & Reporting

• Transparency without Gantt charts: Agile reporting tools

• Stakeholder communications: what to show and how to frame it

• Managing scope creep and priority shifts

• Risk identification and mitigation in Agile

• Governance checkpoints and compliance in iterative models

• Workshop: Draft an Agile status report and stakeholder update

Tools: Burndown charts, OKRs, risk logs, Agile status decks
Focus: Communication • Risk • Executive Alignment

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Manage projects using Agile and Scrum frameworks

• Support teams with planning, metrics, and stakeholder engagement

• Deliver value incrementally while managing time, risk, and dependencies

• Translate Agile delivery into traditional reporting language

• Align executive expectations with empirical delivery patterns

• Evolve from project oversight to Agile facilitation and enablement

Who Should Take This Course?

• Project managers shifting into Agile/Scrum environments

• Scrum Masters needing stronger project delivery coordination

• Delivery leads managing hybrid or distributed teams

• PMOs adapting governance to Agile projects

• Business stakeholders involved in Agile oversight

Class Reference: AGL-120
Form Updated on: 06/17/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/17/2025

Program Note

Includes Agile planning templates, stakeholder update slide decks, estimation worksheets, and Scrum delivery health checklists.

Links to resources for presentations or summaries:

Agile Software Development

How to Set Up Your Development Environment with VirtualBox

tdd – How to explain “Agile” to a non-developer? – Stack Overflow

What is Taco Bell programming? – Definition from WhatIs.com

What is Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)? – Definition from WhatIs.com

MEAN.JS – Quick Guide – Tutorialspoint

Abstraction vs Compression | Developer’s Dilemma

SOLID – Wikipedia

Principle of least privilege – Wikipedia

What is memory leak? – Definition from WhatIs.com

What is the difference between object-oriented and service-oriented programming?

GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started – ReadWrite

What is an API? – Definition from WhatIs.com

What is RESTful API? – Definition from WhatIs.com

Software prototyping – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unit testing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Technical debt – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Code smell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Code refactoring – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Algorithmic Transparency

Application Development Trends Home (ADTmag.com) — ADTmag

Testing

Software Testing Exercises – Software Testing Fundamentals

Sanity Testing Vs Smoke Testing: Introduction & Differences

Test Driven Development vs Behaviour Driven Development + FREE CHEAT SHEET – YouTube

TsopIt

Review QA fundamentals with this software testing quiz

PlugIns

Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)

Seven ways to know when to automate testing

Exploring the four major categories of application testing tools

Unit Testing with JUnit – Tutorial

Sample Project for Creating Unit Tests

The secret to asking the right usability testing questions

Mutation testing – Wikipedia

Application performance metrics are what to test, not how to test

Explore cloud application testing technique

4 tips to tackle common microservices testing problems

Testing microservices? The secret is in the details

Agile Testing

Don’t let impostor syndrome hold you back

Picking the Right Branch-Merge Strategy | AgileConnection

5 Key Factors to Achieve Agile Testing in DevOps | AgileConnection

DZone Open Source

Learn how to install Jenkins CI to enhance your DevOps skills

What is agile test automation pyramid? – Definition from WhatIs.com

How to Write Unit Tests for Ajax Requests using Mocha | Pluralsight

Tests from a Hat – XP123

Advanced Topic – Spikes – Scaled Agile Framework

Agile Atlas Common Practices & Scrum Values for Practitioners

Part 2/3 of Scalable Software and Big Data Architecture

50+ Data Science and Machine Learning Cheat Sheets

Microsoft Buys Xamarin to Expand Its Empire Beyond Windows | WIRED

SOA vs. microservices: Is a service by any other name a fad?