Change is normal. Embracing change gives your company a competitive edge, enabling you to get products to market and respond to customer feedback faster than ever before. This course explains how to make change management more agile within the new product development (NPD) process. Learn why change management is so difficult in manufacturing, and how agile strategies such as iterative planning and modular design can help solve change management challenges. Discover how to anticipate and constrain change, and use new technology such as digital information sharing and model-based design to further enhance agile change. Instructor Mark Hechel also explores a solution framework built around CMII that can support agile change from NPD through post-launch product management.

Today's professionals need development approaches that work in person, remotely, and as a mix. In this course, learn how one software development framework—the aptly named agile—can help you handle this chaos in stride. Instructor Reginald Valentine kicks off the course by reviewing the history of agile, its core tenets, and how it can help you manage change. Then, he steps through how agile methodologies can help your teams more effectively plan, deliver, review, and improve your work by leveraging itemization, prioritization, and sequencing. Learn about the concept of a sprint, and how sprints can help you confirm that your team is delivering the right work at the right time. Plus, learn how to build a team backlog to boost productivity and confidence. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the basic knowledge you need to leverage agile in all manner of projects, including those outside the realm of software development.

Get practical advice and learn developer-centric tips for how to navigate and improve your agile software workflow.

Learn the foundational concepts you need to know to start thinking like an agile team.

Learn how to use an agile instructional design model such as SAM to create instructional content, and deliver more effective learning experiences more efficiently.

Learn about the key principles of agile marketing, and discover how to leverage this approach in your own organization.

Learn how to leverage the agile project management methodology within the context of new product development for manufacturers.

Learn about the role of product owner on an agile project team. Take a look at the mindset, techniques, and competencies critical to being successful in the job.

Learn what it takes to be a stellar product owner on an agile project team. Explore the responsibilities of the product owner, and learn some practical techniques.

Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature: Kids pick their own punishments.

Agile environments present some unique challenges and opportunities for leadership. In this course, instructor Kelley O’Connell covers leadership definitions, agile leadership objectives and techniques, and leadership stabilization. Kelley explains why leadership is necessary in agile environments, then goes over traditional leadership functions and how agile leadership is different. She defines essential new leadership skills and discusses how you can transform yourself into an agile leader and help your team and organization shift successfully to agile, as well. Kelley describes key agile leadership techniques, then concludes by sharing ways you can establish team values, apply organizational strategy, define priorities, and more.

Get started with agile project management. Get an overview of agile and Jira, then practice creating and using project boards in both company-managed and team-managed versions of Jira Cloud. Learn how to create issues and subtasks, and explore techniques to make your logged issues more useful. Finally, learn the value of the kanban method, and how to configure a kanban board.

Note: To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

In this course, explore the difference between lean and agile, and learn to identify kanban systems. Walk through what scrum is, learn how to define velocity and scrum roles, and start creating a scrum project. Discover quick searches and basic searches, as well as how to use both in Jira. Plus, explore Jira Query Language (JQL).

Note: To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

This third and final course in the Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud series covers advanced topics like how to use filters, identify and classify epics, and how to use dashboards. After you explore these new topics, see how to put it all together: review the Jira tools and workflows, and use them to create classic and next-gen kanban projects in Jira.

Note: Want to put your new skills to the test? Consider earning the Jira Essentials with Agile Mindset Pro Skills Badge. You can learn more about this Atlassian credential here. To check out other Atlassian University courses about Jira workflows, reporting, automation, and more, click here.

Learn how to use Microsoft Project to manage agile projects including traditionally scheduled tasks and agile work.

Learn how to use Microsoft Project to manage agile and hybrid projects. Bonnie Biafore covers setting up agile projects for success, as well as creating custom fields to track elements unique to the agile project method, such as features and sprints. She also shows how to manage traditionally scheduled tasks and agile work side by side, track agile project progress, generate burndown reports, and determine your team's velocity. Plus, learn about the agile tools that are built into the Project Online desktop client.

Explore the strengths and weaknesses of different agile software tools, including Excel, Jira, Team Foundation Server, VersionOne, Agile Central, and AgilityHealth.

​​The Agile mindset is an exciting way to quickly deliver higher-quality products. This course helps you compare the strengths and weaknesses of several top agile software tools. These include Microsoft Excel, Atlassian JIRA, Trello, Microsoft Azure DevOps, and open-source GitLab. The course highlights the advantages of simple tools like spreadsheets and more complex product management packages. This course helps project managers, software developers, agile coaches and other professionals determine which tool is the best fit for their team. Agile expert Doug Rose provides a fast-paced tour and an unvarnished look at what some of the tools get right and what some get wrong. Doug concludes each section with suggested strategies for selecting the right tool for your team—always remembering that no tool should ever overshadow the core values of the agile manifesto.