Google Agile Essentials teaches you the foundations of the agile project management philosophy. You’ll learn about the principles of Agile and take a deeper look at a popular framework, Scrum. At the end of the course, you’ll be able to prioritize tasks, adapt to changes and deliver results iteratively. You’ll understand how to build, run and organize your team by implementing Scrum events and creating artifacts.

In Google Agile Essentials, you will gain practical experience building Scrum artifacts like product and sprint backlogs. You will also practice estimation, creating sprint plans, running a sprint retrospective and writing recaps.

Google Agile Essentials includes 6 modules: 

Introduction to Agile Project Management

Explore Popular Agile Frameworks

Investigate Scrum in Detail 

Implement Scrum to Manage Progress

Practice Organizing the Five Scrum Events 

Use Scrum Tools to Measure Productivity

Upon completion, you can take a final graded assessment to earn a certificate that can be displayed on your resume, social media profiles, and email signature. Having a certificate from Google is a concrete way to show current and future employers your competency in this essential skill set, like leading Scrum teams, creating artifacts, and running sprints.

Google Agile Essentials helps you build the skills to turn complex projects into manageable tasks, collaborate with your team better, and get more done faster. 

Project management skills can help anyone, but if you’re looking for deeper knowledge in the field, check out Google Career Certificates at grow.google/certificates, which can help you prepare for entry-level roles in three to six months.

The Google Project Management Certificate is designed to teach learners the skills they need to get a job as a project manager within 3-6 months, no experience required. It teaches learners how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, using traditional and agile methods. Agile project management is covered in one of the six courses in the Google Project Management Certificate. You can learn more and enroll at grow.google/projectmanagement.

While the Google Project Management Certificate teaches the skills that one needs to get a job as a project manager, Google Agile Essentials dives into one primary concept, Agile project management, in a shorter period of time. In under 10 hours, you will learn about popular agile frameworks under the agile umbrella and take a deeper look at one of the most popular frameworks, Scrum.

Google Agile Essentials was designed and built by subject-matter experts at Google with decades of experience from the project and program management job fields. This course is created to equip learners with theoretical and practical knowledge and real-life problem solving skills to be successful in applying agile project management practices across any field.

To access the course materials, assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience when you enroll in a course. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid. The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.

When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.