Project Management with Agile, Scrum, and Delivery Practices

Sooner or later someone hands you the thing and says "you're running this." Maybe it comes with the title "project manager," maybe just with the expectation. Either way the questions arrive fast: What exactly are we delivering? By when, and says who? Why is everything suddenly "high priority"? And what do I actually do in this standup? This course answers those questions in the order a real delivery throws them at you. You'll charter an initiative with a sponsor and honest success criteria, then choose how to run it — predictive, agile, or a hybrid — based on how much is actually unknown, instead of on whatever's fashionable. You'll define scope (including the part most people skip: what's explicitly *out*), break work down, write requirements, estimate without pretending an estimate is a promise, and prioritize with tools like MoSCoW and cost of delay. You'll manage change and risk so neither one quietly sinks you. Then you'll learn to run an agile team for real: the whole of Scrum as the 2020 guide actually defines it, Kanban and flow when continuous work fits better, and the human skills — facilitation, servant leadership, the psychological safety that makes a retrospective worth holding. You'll track delivery with burndown, flow metrics, and forecasts that admit uncertainty, and report status to stakeholders without the green-on-the-outside, red-on-the-inside dishonesty everyone recognizes. The throughline is judgment that outlives any single framework. Tools change, certifications come and go, the Scrum Guide gets rewritten — so every lesson separates the durable principle from the swappable ceremony and the dated detail. No jargon for its own sake, no cargo-cult, no method worship. Just how to get real work delivered through a team, and how to tell when the ritual you've inherited has stopped serving the goal.