Agile project management - basics
Project management methodology in a dynamic environment
Contents
Basics and introduction: Why agile?
- Overview of agile project management - what is it?
- Differences and additions to classic project management.
- Advantages and challenges of agile project management.
Prerequisites/framework conditions for agile projects
- Agile working - how can it succeed?
- Values and principles.
- Requirements for agile projects.
- The right mindset: It all depends on the attitude within the organization!
Team as a key factor
- Framework conditions for agile teams.
- Responsibility, collaboration and commitment in an agile team.
- Effective team and self-management.
- Communication within the team.
Agile methods and tools
- Agile methods such as Kanban and Scrum.
- Agile tools such as stand-up meetings, user stories, timeboxing, sprint backlog, burndown charts and other agile approaches.
Adaptive planning and development
- Product and task description.
- Procedures for estimating expenditure.
- Procedures for agile developments.
Get to know and experience Scrum holistically
- Scrum as an iterative approach with rules, values and principles.
- The three artifacts: product backlog, sprint backlog and product increment.
- The four events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
- The three roles: Scrum Team, Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master.
- Use of tools and techniques: estimation (e.g. Planning Poker), user stories and MVP, ...
Project management
- Dealing with changes in the project.
- Stakeholder management.
- Transparency! Problem detection and problem solving.
- Risk management.
- Quality assurance.
Continuous improvement - project completion
- Kaizen - the principle of continuous improvement.
- Adapt the process to your own requirements.
- Knowledge management - the Learners project management organization.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- Youare familiar with the approaches, methods and techniques of agile project management.
- You will better understand the meaning of "agile mindset" and "agile principles".
- You use the most important tools in a targeted manner in practice - and can implement projects more flexibly, efficiently and in a more condensed manner.
- You can better assess the expectations and effects of agile approaches on your environment and integrate them more successfully into existing structures.
After attending this training course, you will receive a confirmation for 12.00 PDUs.
Methods
Lively, dialog-oriented training in which the attendees can and should actively participate. Processing of practical cases, mixture of lecture, discussion, individual reflection and group work.
Tool
Recommended for
(Prospective) project managers and sub-project managers outside and inside IT who want to gain a sound overview of agile project management methods and techniques.
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Start dates and details
Thursday, 05.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 16.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 17.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 26.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 27.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 09.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 10.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 16.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 17.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 26.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 27.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 13.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 14.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 23.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 24.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 07.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 08.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 11.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 12.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 18.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 19.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 04.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 05.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 18.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 19.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 22.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 23.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 08.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 09.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 13.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 14.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 20.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 21.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 06.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 07.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 17.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 18.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 20.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 21.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 03.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 10.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 11.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 24.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 25.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 28.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 06.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 07.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 14.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 15.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 22.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 23.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 02.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 03.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 11.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 12.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 16.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 17.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 19.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 20.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 03.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 07.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 08.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 14.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 15.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 20.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 21.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 25.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 26.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 04.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 05.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 11.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 12.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 15.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 25.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 26.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 02.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 03.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 10.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 11.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 15.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQ
In many projects, requirements, priorities, and framework conditions change faster than traditional project plans can keep up with. A detailed plan at the start of a project loses its relevance when stakeholder expectations shift, new insights emerge, or external influences come into play. In everyday life, this often leads to friction, a high coordination effort, and late corrections. Agile project management addresses this issue by accepting change as the norm and continuously adapting planning. The training this problem and uses concrete examples to show you how agile project management differs from the traditional approach, what mindsets are behind it, and how you can keep projects structured and controllable even in situations of high uncertainty.
An agile mindset changes the way you view planning, collaboration, and responsibility. Instead of control and rigid guidelines, the focus is on transparency, willingness to learn, and personal responsibility. This helps you respond to problems more quickly in your day-to-day project work, involve teams more closely, and make decisions closer to the operational work. Agile principles support you in regularly gathering feedback, reviewing priorities, and focusing on the actual benefits for clients. In training , you training about the core agile values and principles and understand how they specifically affect leadership, collaboration in the project team, and dealing with change.
Many project managers face the challenge of implementing agile methods without completely dismantling existing structures. However, agile working methods can be integrated step by step, for example through iterative planning, clear prioritization of tasks, or regular coordination within the team. It is crucial to know which methods are suitable for which purposes and how they can be applied pragmatically. This is exactly where the training , explaining basic agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban in an understandable way and showing you how to adapt them to your project reality, even if your environment is not completely agile.
Successful agile project management is based on close collaboration, clear communication, and shared responsibility. Teams work in a more self-organized manner, stakeholders are regularly involved, and decisions are made transparently. This reduces misunderstandings and ensures that project results better match actual requirements. training how agile roles work, how teamwork is structured, and how you can actively involve stakeholders in the project process to increase acceptance, clarity, and commitment.
Agile project management often seems complex, especially for beginners, as it involves many new terms, roles, and working methods. A structured introduction is therefore crucial in order to gain confidence in using agile methods and to apply them effectively. This training you exactly that introduction by presenting the basics in an understandable way, explaining the connections, and clearing up typical misunderstandings. You will develop a solid understanding of when agile methods are useful, how they are applied, and how you can use them step by step in your everyday project work.
What is agile project management?
The term "agile project management" refers to a principle that is geared towards fast results. In software development, for example, beta versions are published in advance and put through practical testing even before the product has been completed. The advantage of agile project management lies in the dynamic and flexible design of control and management. The product can be adapted to customer requirements more quickly, undesirable developments are identified earlier and can be corrected. However, despite all the flexibility, it is important to maintain the necessary goal orientation. In our "Agile project management" training , you will learn how the organization can optimally stabilize agile processes and how project managers can lead and support their teams so that they can work in a creative and disciplined manner at the same time.


