Program Courses
To earn a Certificate in Agile Practices from Northwestern University, students must complete the following courses:
- Agile for Practitioners Core Course (PROJ_PMI 403-0)
- Any two Agile or project management electives
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Annual Schedule
CORE COURSE |
FALL | WINTER | SPRING | SUMMER |
PROJ_PMI 403-0 Agile for Practitioners | X | X | X | X |
ELECTIVE COURSES |
FALL | WINTER | SPRING | SUMMER |
PROJ_PMI 204-0 Developing People and Teams |
X | X | X | |
PROJ_PMI 211-0 Soft Skills for Project Managers | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 225-0 Power Excel Skills for Project Managers | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 300-0 Managing Global Teams | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 315-DL Risk Management (online) | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 345-DL Practical Project Planning (online) | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 350-0 Leading and Coaching Agile Teams | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 360-0 Agile Estimating and Planning | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 365-0 Supporting an Agile Transformation | X | X | ||
PROJ_PMI 370-0 Managing Product Backlogs and the Product Owner Role | X | X |
Attribution
PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PMI-ACP, and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
PDP courses are offered online, remotely, and on-campus.
Please refer to the Schedule Notes for course delivery information.
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PROJ_PMI 403-0 : Agile for Practitioners
Description
Since the software development industry first adopted the term Agile in 2001, it has quickly become a popular buzzword that has spread beyond software development. Unfortunately, the term agile has come to mean many things to many people.
This course is an in-depth, workshop-style course that will teach participants the principles and values of Agile, the most popular agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development and Extreme Programming (XP), and help them apply Agile practices and techniques to their current projects.
This course qualifies as education contact hours for the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam. Note that in order to sit for the PMI-ACP® exam, students must meet additional requirements set forth by PMI that can be found on their website.
Course Learning Goals
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain various Agile frameworks and why they are used—including Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
- Apply the Scrum framework to develop a new product
- Create a product backlog and user stories
- Create Agile communications tools that create transparency and stakeholder trust
- Demonstrate how teams drive business value using product backlogs
- Contrast Agile Planning with traditional ways of planning projects
- Understand how to establish an Agile team and help encourage high-performance
- Apply agile approaches to manage project scope, schedule, budget and quality
- Understand the knowledge and experience requirements necessary to apply for and pass the PMI-ACP® certification exam
There are no prerequisites for this course. This course assumes
some experience working in organizations.
Total Professional Development Units (PDUs): 26 (Technical: 20; Leadership: 6)
Registered students can access their online course site here. An activated NetID and password is required for login. *Please note: It may take up to 24-hours for registered students to be added to the online course platform.
Additional Information:
This course is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Tuition : $1285Spring 2024 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
04/22/24 - 05/16/24 | MTh | 6:30 – 9 p.m. | 42 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Mersino, Anthony | Remote Campus | Closed | 37759 | |
Schedule Notes : This course will be conducted remotely, online. This course has required live, synchronous sessions, held online via Zoom, on Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Sync session attendance is mandatory unless otherwise stated by the course instructor. All times listed CST For more information, please contact profdev@northwestern.edu. Course Materials :Course materials are included in the cost of tuition and will be provided in class and via the online Canvas course site. |