Agile Practices and Stakeholder Strategy

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Successful projects rely not only on strong planning but also on effective stakeholder engagement and adaptive delivery approaches. In this course, you will learn how to identify, analyze, prioritize, and engage project stakeholders while integrating agile practices into modern project management. You will gain practical knowledge of stakeholder analysis models, engagement strategies, and agile considerations across key project management knowledge areas. The course begins by introducing the fundamentals of project stakeholder management. You will explore techniques for identifying stakeholders using data gathering and analysis methods, and learn to visualize stakeholder influence through models such as the Power/Interest Grid, Stakeholder Cube, and Salience Model. As you progress, you will develop skills to plan stakeholder engagement and apply structured approaches to managing and monitoring stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle. Next, the course expands into agile considerations and adaptive project environments. You will examine how agile practices influence integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management. You will also explore emerging trends and evolving practices that modern project managers use to deliver value in dynamic environments. This course is ideal for aspiring project managers, PMP candidates, team leads, and professionals involved in project coordination or stakeholder communication. A basic understanding of project management concepts is recommended. The course is designed at an intermediate level and is suitable for learners who want to strengthen their stakeholder management and agile project strategy skills. By the end of the course, you will be able to identify and analyze project stakeholders, design stakeholder engagement strategies, apply agile considerations across project management knowledge areas, and manage stakeholder communication effectively throughout the project lifecycle.