Improve your business analysis on Agile projects by exploring a framework of tools, techniques, and tips. You'll gain an understanding of the changing role of the business analyst and the tools and techniques best suited to Agile projects.

Discover ways to modify and adapt project management techniques, methods, and approaches to fit the specific needs of an IT project. After learning acquisition and procurement processes and terminology, you will learn to use the tools and techniques associated with both adaptive and predictive lifecycles. With a focus on the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) project workflow, you will understand how to manage constraints and ensure continuous improvement.

Examine multiple effective approaches to executing, managing, and completing IT projects. You will learn delivery methodologies used in innovative IT PM and activities that produce successful software solutions, and how to implement process improvement initiatives.

Discover the differences between managing an IT project and other projects and learn how to take a modified approach to activities to fit the needs of an IT project. You will understand the activities involved in managing IT projects, including time and cost management, risk identification, and planning processes and techniques. You will learn to prepare a scope using predictive and adaptive lifecycles, design a schedule with interdependencies, develop an IT risk management program, and more.

Gain knowledge and skills needed to customize development approaches for achieving project success. Through informative content, hands-on activities, class discussions, and case studies, you will discover tools, techniques, and working practices to tailor the critical aspects of these approaches to specific project requirements and organizational contexts. This course encompasses project management concepts aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and many of the GAO guides.

Learn how the application of Agile methodologies to federal projects is more than just changing product development or contracting practices—it is a mindset. This course addresses strategies, practices, and quality concepts that help facilitate a transition to effective Agile practices that will transform and empower your organization thereby providing maximum value to the customer and contributing to the long-term success of your organization’s goals.

Explore how value is a key driver in the decisions and management of projects and programs. You will gain insights into how value-driven project management shapes stakeholder perceptions of business, strategic, and operational outcomes. You will learn the necessary knowledge and methods to integrate value-driven principles effectively into your project and program management work.