Agile Project Management

This course teaches students how to become a Scrum Master.  A Scrum Master helps project teams properly use Scrum, increasing the likelihood of the project’s overall success. Scrum Masters understand Scrum values, practices, and applications and provide a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers. Scrum Masters act as “servant leaders,” helping the rest of the Scrum team work together and learn the Scrum framework.

To become a Six Sigma Green Belt, you must learn that a process is a means of creating and delivering products and services needed by customers. According to Takashi Osada, a Japanese author, and quality pioneer, “if the process is right, the results will take care of themselves.” By Six Sigma standards, a “right process” is one that creates and delivers precisely what the customer needs. By this logic, no Six Sigma effort can start without having a high-level picture of an organization’s customers and other stakeholders, their needs, and the business processes meant to fulfill those needs.

The Scrum methodology allows a team to self-organize and make changes quickly, in accordance with agile principles. A qualified scrum master will lead these teams and projects to successful completion.

Six Sigma is a data-driven improvement philosophy that views all activities within an organization as processes whose inputs can be controlled to effect significant improvements in process outputs.