Comparing Agile versus Waterfall Project Management
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Compare the most popular project management approaches—agile and waterfall—to decide which one is right for your organization.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Decide on your project management approach
- What is agile?
- Adapting to changes
- Which projects suit agile vs. waterfall?
- The dream situation
- Can plans be too flexible?
- Estimating cost
- It all comes together at the end
- Is agile only for software?
- What about unfamiliar projects?
- Does agile cost more?
- Can agile handle big projects?
- Fitting into larger projects
- The secret Gantt chart behind agile
- How many deliverables can you have?
- How does kanban fit with agile?
- What is the point of a burndown chart?
- Can sprints be more/less than two weeks?
- Which is better for the customer?
- Planning for a hurricane
- When to use agile vs. waterfall
- Can you ever merge both?
- Reducing documentation
- The future of agile
Taught by
Chris Croft and Doug Rose
Related Courses
Fundamentals of Project Planning and ManagementUniversity of Virginia via Coursera Supply Chain Operations
Rutgers University via Coursera Lean Production
Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich) via edX Lean Software Development
University of Minnesota via Coursera L'excellence opérationnelle en pratique
ESSEC Business School via Coursera