1. Become an Agile Project Manager (Certification)

   This learning path helped me understand the core ideas around being an Agile Project Manager. Starting through the foundations of Agile and popular frameworks like Scrum and customers and other interactions. I also learned about the outdated format of Waterfall and the benefits of Agile being used instead. Overall, the agile process is productive, efficient, and allows for flexibility. The hierarchical structure and meetings such as Sprints allow for Agile to be a successful framework. I also learned the importance of Agile retrospectives as they should prioritize the team’s flaws and room for improvement. This path also talks about task management and burndown charts to measure the productivity and output. I finally learned about the various tools I have for Agile such as Jira, Azure, CA Agile, etc. But the important thing is to use tools that orient towards Agile’s values of “Collaboration” and “face-to-face communication”.

   Microsoft Project 2016 Essential Training (Certification)

   The Microsoft Project 2016 learning path helped me understand how to utilize its features for a successful project. Everyone mostly knows how to use Excel, but how would we use that in a project setting where we need tasks, updates, and general project management? This is where the learning path helped me the most as it helped me understand how to set various specific options. Options that included resource allocation, task allocation, and a overview of the project efficiency by having schedule statuses and even graphical reports. Microsoft Project being properly utilized has a lot of value since it measures the budget use and timing of your project process.

   Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization (Certification)

   Design Thinking is an important learning path since developers often fail at understanding where their product is lacking. Design Thinking emphasizes emotions and empathy as the focus is on the user experience first rather than just focusing on a developer’s perspective. These simple principles can make a world of difference since a team’s efficiency and productivity can be vastly improved. Design Thinking needs the team mentality to be understanding and open to ideas, this includes personalities as teams can have introverts or extroverts which work differently. The user focus can only come after the team has come together mentally as the productivity and understanding of the user’s problems will be magnified. I also learned about creative collaboration which highlights the needs for hypotheses, journey maps, synthesis, and concepting. Creative Collaboration thrives with open-ended forms of brainstorming and ideas that understand the user’s way of thinking.

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My goal for this professional achievement opportunity was gaining deeper knowledge in project management that is related to MIS 3535 course.

1) Become an Agile Project Manager: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/paths/become-an-agile-project-manager?u=2206009: These series of courses helped me learn and understand Agile in work place better and how to utilize it efficiently.

2) Microsoft Project Essential training: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/microsoft-project-2016-essential-training/welcome?autoplay=true&u=2206009: This was a great introduction to Microsoft Project software as I had no experience prior to this course. I was able to learn how Microsoft Project software can be used for a better communication with group for ongoing project.

3) Leading Change: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-design-thinking-lead-change-in-your-organization/welcome?u=2206009: This course was a great reminder and lesson for me to understand others perspectives when I work on group projects. It helped me understand how to lead the group work collaboratively and effectively.

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For this class project, I completed 3 courses on LinkedIn learning. They all had separate ideas, but mainly focused on what we learned in class. They focused on agile principles, project management software, and change leadership. They really helped reaffirm the information I learned throughout this semester, as well as give me insight on what being a project manager is. The courses showed me what type of foundation professionals in the field attain through learning, and experience.

 

  

 

For this class project I was instructed to complete three LinkedIn Learning paths on agile project management and design thinking.  I learned throughout these courses how to affectively lead a team.  With the help of these courses I now feel like I am equipped with the knowledge to lead my team and affectively use agile and scrum techniques.  I also learned how to use the Microsoft Project software which will also help me affectively organize a project affectively.  I enjoyed learning how to lead a team and how the SCRUM method works, this will help me with my professional career as a potential project manager.

 

You can find my LinkedIN profile here with the completed courses:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-horensky/

For this project, I utilized LinkedIn Learning and completed three courses. These certifications are “Becoming an Agile Project Manager”, “Microsoft Project Essential Training”, and “Leading Change”. By completing these three courses, I have learned the tools and foundations that is needed to be an Agile Project Manager. One of the tools is Microsoft Project. In this course, it taught be how to use Microsoft Project to manage projects, edit timelines, and reporting the project information. In addition, these courses taught me the different characteristics of Agile such as building the right Agile team, user stories and how to implement Microsoft Project to work in an Agile environment. Lastly, the “Leading Change” course discussed different aspects of what it takes to initiate and lead change within an organization. For example, one of the main ideas taught was Design thinking. Design thinking is a user focused approach of solving problems and requires a lot of collaboration to make it an effective strategy. Overall, these courses provide me with the knowledge and skills that will further prepare for a career in project management!

 

Attached are my certificates.

Certificate O fCompletion Become an Agile Project Manager

Certificate Of Completion Learning Design Thinking Lead Change in Your Organization

Certificate O fCompletion Microsoft Project 2016 Essential Training

For this project we were given the task of watching training videos to help improve our comprehension and skills of agile project management. The various videos included explanations on roles and processes when working in an agile environment. the videos also provided training with various programs to help make the agile process more efficient. This project was very helpful with my development and understanding of agile. They helped reiterate many concepts and lessons learned throughout my time in the 3535 course. The walkthroughs of the various programs was also very helpful as I find it very valuable to be familiar with different programs in todays work environment. Below are my certificates that I received for completing these training sessions.

Certificate Of Completion Become an Agile Project Manager

Certificate Of Completion Learning Design Thinking Lead Change in Your Organization

Certificate Of Completion Microsoft Project 2016 Essential Training

The goal of this project is to demonstrate students’ knowledge of functions, loops, conditional statements, and jQuery, which we learned in MIS2402.

This project needs to use the knowledge learned in class to create a web page by using a real data set about Covid-19 provided by the professor. I need to analyze this set of Covid-19 data first. Then, I used the Visual Studio Code to write programs and answer questions about Covid-19. (1. What country has had the most Covid-19 cases? How many? 2. What country has had the most Covid-19 deaths? How many? 3. What country has had the most Covid-19 tests per million people? How many? 4. What country has the newest Covid-19 cases as of today? 5. What country has had the most recoveries?)

Project URL: http://misdemo.temple.edu/tuj72704/PRO/COVID%20Data.html

By completing this project, I strengthened my understanding and application of the knowledge I learned this semester. I can be more familiar with writing code to create web pages. When I was analyzing and organizing the data, I found that the USA had the most cases, deaths, and new cases. As an international student, I am worried about the lives of the American people. This virus is terrible, but from the data, the United States has not found a suitable solution and preventive measures. I think this should arouse people’s attention and enable people to strengthen self-protection in order to effectively reduce the cases and deaths caused by Covid-19.

MIS 3406 Project

1. The goal was to train people on how to lead change, use Microsoft Project, and become an agile project manager. The how to lead change path taught me that the design thinking approach is more of a mindset rather than a strict plan. The Microsoft Project learning path taught me what information I will need to start a project. The becoming an agile project manager path taught me a little about the history of agile and its importance in business.

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