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 3 courses:

1. Foundations of Agile Project Management

2. Implement the Scrum Framework

3. Organize Projects and Measure Productivity with Scrum

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.

This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.

Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.

Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.

No, you cannot take this course for free. 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. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.