Agile Project Management: Agile-as-a-Culture, beyond SCRUM
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Agile Project Management: Agile-as-a-Culture, beyond SCRUM
This course is part of Project Management: Tools, Approaches, Behavioural Skills Specialization
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Skills you'll gain
- Team Performance Management
- Agile Project Management
- Constructive Feedback
- Trustworthiness
- Team Management
- Agile Methodology
- Culture Transformation
- Agile Software Development
- Organizational Leadership
- Team Building
- Innovation
- Team Motivation
- Organizational Development
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Agile Product Development
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Team Oriented
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
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There are 6 modules in this course
Agile has evolved beyond tools and frameworksβit's now a culture that shapes how organizations behave, make decisions, and navigate complexity. This course explores agility as a mindset, highlighting how leadership, team dynamics, and feedback loops create the conditions for continuous learning and adaptation. Through real-world examples from companies like Spotify, GE, Saab, and Moderna, learners will understand how to embed agility into organizational culture. You will discover the human side of Agile: servant leadership, enabling roles, team alignment, and the practices that empower autonomous, purpose-driven teams. This course provides the mindset and cultural foundations to support Agile practices at scale.
At the end of this course, you will be able to: 1. Understand the concept of Agile-as-a-Culture and how it differs from Agile as a framework. 2. Recognize the role of mindset, leadership, and trust in enabling Agile teams. 3. Evaluate how hybrid models integrate Agile and traditional project management principles. 4. Apply principles of servant and enabling leadership to support Agile transformation. 5. Use feedback and cultural alignment tools to enhance team performance and autonomy. 6. Reflect on real-world applications of Agile culture across industries and contexts.
What's included
1 video
1 videoβ’Total 2 minutes
- Introductory videoβ’2 minutes
What's included
2 videos
2 videosβ’Total 16 minutes
- Building an Agile Mindset as a Cultureβ’7 minutes
- Introduction to Hybrid Methodsβ’8 minutes
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4 videos
4 videosβ’Total 37 minutes
- The Best of Both Worlds - Saabβ’9 minutes
- From Project Management to Innovation - The Case of GEβ’10 minutes
- Preparing for Agility - The Case of Modernaβ’9 minutes
- Engineering Culture and Agility at Spotifyβ’9 minutes
What's included
3 videos
3 videosβ’Total 25 minutes
- The Servant Leader - Leading by Servingβ’8 minutes
- The Role of Feedback in Enhancing Alignmentβ’10 minutes
- Enabling Leadership - What Agile Coaches Can Teach Usβ’8 minutes
What's included
1 video
1 videoβ’Total 8 minutes
- Necessity or Opportunity_ Insights from the Music Industryβ’8 minutes
What's included
1 assignment
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Final Quizβ’30 minutes
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