Essential Scrum and Agile Skills

Learn agile methods and skills to support leadership roles in any industry

These comprehensive on-demand courses are designed to equip professionals with the agile skills needed to drive meaningful results in today's dynamic business environment. Whether your organization is beginning its agile transformation or looking to refine existing practices, these courses provide practical strategies for stakeholder engagement, change management, and hybrid collaboration.

Each course offers complete flexibility, allowing you to learn at your own pace while gaining actionable skills that translate directly to real-world success. From advancing your career to transforming your organization's approach to project management, these courses deliver the expertise needed to thrive in fast-paced, ever-evolving markets.

Developed through a collaboration between SPS and Scrum Alliance®, a global leader in agile certifications, these microcredential courses combine academic rigor with industry-leading expertise to help professionals seize opportunities and deliver impactful results across any industry.

Agile Stakeholder Engagement: Effective Communication Strategies

Effective stakeholder communication is crucial for product owners and scrum masters to ensure project alignment, build relationships and maintain engagement throughout the agile process. This course will explain best practices for communication between agile and traditional projects while identifying and prioritizing stakeholder’s communication needs.
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Change Management: Overcoming Resistance for Agile Transformation

Agile adoption is never just about process. It is about people. In this course, you will learn how to guide teams through the challenges of agile adoption by applying practical change management strategies. You will discover how to anticipate resistance, meet people where they are, and help them move forward together so your organization achieves faster delivery, greater responsiveness, and lasting transformation.

COMING SOON: END OF OCTOBER 2025

Mastering Hybrid Agile

This course helps teams—remote, hybrid and in-person—optimize collaboration and tackle the challenges of distributed work. Participants will explore agile practices to enhance communication, streamline teamwork and overcome common hurdles in hybrid environments, ensuring success on any project.

COMING SOON: NOVEMBER 2025

Receive a Northwestern and ScrumAlliance® microcredential upon course completion

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"Agility is no longer just a buzzword; it’s the key to thriving in today’s volatile, fast-moving business world,” said Tristan Boutros, CEO of Scrum Alliance. “This partnership with Northwestern University allows us to deliver actionable skills that go beyond theory — these are concrete skills that help professionals mobilize strategy, drive measurable bottom-line results and mitigate risk. Whether it’s managing projects more effectively, leveraging AI advancements or responding to shifts in the market, agility is essential for today’s leaders who need to act fast, think ahead and lead with impact.”

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