AGILE Leadership Certificate

  • Overview
  • Program Requirements
  • Why Choose a Certificate?
Overview

AGILE Leadership Certificate

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Gain essential skills for leading complex projects efficiently with the AGILE Leadership Certificate. The three-course series covers the principal AGILE methodologies that enable learners to develop change driven project management life cycles and become successful servant leaders for any organization looking to improve project agility and outcomes. This includes an introduction to program and portfolio management and class discussions covering practical applications for multiple life cycle development approaches like SCRUM, Kanban, and XP. This certificate program also fulfills the Agile education hours required to qualify for the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) exam.

Program Requirements

Program Requirements

Certificate Requirements

  • Certificates must be completed within 6 years; courses completed more than 6 years ago may not be applied toward certificate.
  • All courses applied to a certificate program must be taken from Georgia Tech.
  • This certificate does not require an application.

How it works

Your path to achievement is easy! Most certificate courses are offered in classroom locations around the U.S. You can also inquire about training at your location.

Cost

  • Course load determines the cost of a certificate program.
  • Calculate your total by identifying the courses needed and tallying individual course fees. Some courses offer discounts for course bundling.

Registration

  • Select a certificate program, review the requirements, and determine your timeline for completion.
  • Add courses to your shopping cart for purchase as you are ready to take them, or as a group if desired.
  • Proceed to checkout to complete your registration. We accept multiple forms of payment including a third-party credit cardholder, purchase order, a private loan, and VA benefits for certain programs.

Completion

  • Certificates must be completed within six years.
  • After successful completion of most individual courses, a Certificate of Course Completion will be sent.
  • After successful completion of all required courses, request a transcript and program certificate audit.

Upon verification, GTPE will email your transcript and mail your Certificate of Program Completion. Some programs host a certificate award ceremony during the final course.

Once you earn your Georgia Tech Program Certificate, tout your success on your resume and LinkedIn profile, share with your employer, and celebrate an important career growth achievement!

Why Choose a Certificate?

Why Choose a Certificate?

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Georgia Tech learners master real-world skills and apply them to their career the day after completion.

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What You Will Learn

  • Introduction to Agile project management framework 
  • Mastery of the four values and the twelve principles of the AGILE Manifesto 
  • Gaining of essential program management practices that align to Agile principles & values  
  • Practice models for Agile life cycle development approaches  
  • Gaining of effective approaches for practicing SCRUM & Kanban default methods  
  • Gaining Agile team mindset and structure that enables value delivery 
Four colleagues sit around a conference room table and a woman stands at the front of room with her arms crossed. Behind her is a project plan on a screen.

How You Will Benefit

  • Gain perspective of AGILE roles that maximize value delivery to the customer
  • Understand tools & techniques to plan & measure product development
  • Understand multiple team approaches such as XP, FDD, DSDM, AUP
  • Learn scaled approaches such as Crystal methods, SAFe and to select the best FIT via tailoring under Disciplined AGILE (DA)
  • Understand value delivery systems within program & portfolio management
  • Prepare to apply for the PMI-ACP exam (Project Management Institute proctored)
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