PMI-ACP Certification: Leading an Agile Team (Udemy.com)
Agile Certified Practitioner Certification Program - Course 6 of 8 - Leading an Agile Team
Created by: Sorin Dumitrascu
Last updated November 2025
What you will learn
- Understand how the role of project manager differs between traditional and agile project management
- Recognize practices that reflect the mindset of an agile project leader and the characteristics of an Agile team
- Identify causes of problems on agile teams and understand strategies for overcoming agile team challenges
- Recognize strategies for boosting team performance and understand agile coaching activities
How it compares
Against the other 133 rated Udemy courses in Agile & Scrum on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 59% of them
- Reviews168#123 of 134 by number of reviews
- Length3.5 hoursshorter than 51% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 51% of them
Course Description
This is the six course out of eight of the Agile PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) Certification Program. This part is on Leading an Agile Team.
1. The Agile Project Leader
Traditional and agile project management roles differ in their approaches to decision making, project planning, and management generally, but both need excellent people management and leadership skills, as well as technical knowledge. An agile project leader should view the customer as a collaborator and focus on continuous improvement throughout a project. The project leader should also serve as both a servant-leader and facilitator, and view a project as a CAS.
2. The agile team
Agile teams are typically cross-functional in their makeup and self-organizing, with members who are empowered to make their own decisions during the development process. Problems in agile teams result from management miscues, including confusion over a project's mission and scope, and team dysfunctions that occur when teams don't follow agile principles.
3. Managing Distributed Agile Teams
Managing a distributed agile team poses particular challenges. To help overcome these, you can focus on creating cross-functional teams, building solid working relationships, using interactive modes of communication, ensuring knowledge sharing between team members, organizing regular meetings at appropriate times, promoting collaboration, and using online collaboration and meeting tools.
4. Coaching an Agile Team
Agile coaches are responsible for developing team and individual performance, and for helping team members apply agile practices in their daily work. Agile coaching occurs at the team and individual levels. At the start and end of each iteration, agile coaching occurs largely at the team level. While an iteration is in progress, individual coaching is most appropriate.
5. Improving Team Performance
You can improve the performance of an agile team by expecting high performance and technical excellence. As project leader, you should also remove obstacles that could hinder high performance, such as an inadequate product backlog, poor engineering practices, and multitasking.
To ensure that a team can identify and fix problems quickly, you should remove obstacles that could hinder performance, such as individuals working in isolation, a culture of tolerating defects, and a project leader that tries to solve problems for the team. A final strategy you can use to improve performance is to ensure that team members stay energized by eating healthily and taking regular breaks.
This course has two sections: The Basics of Agile Teams and Managing Agile Team Performance.
After completing the section called The Basics of Agile Teams, you will be able to:
- indicate how the role of project manager differs between traditional and agile project management,
- recognize practices that reflect the mindset of an agile project leader,
- recognize the characteristics of an Agile team,
- identify causes of problems on agile teams, and
- recommend strategies for overcoming challenges faced by dispersed agile teams.
After completing the section called Managing Agile Team Performance you will be able to:
- match iteration phases with corresponding coaching activities
- recognize strategies for boosting team performance
Who is your instructor?
My name is Sorin, and I will be your instructor. I am a trainer and project manager with more than 10 years of experience. Before Udemy, I trained hundreds of people in a classroom environment – civil servants, managers, project workers, aid workers and many more. And I managed projects in the fields of justice, corrections, regional development and human resources development.
How will you benefit?
This course is intended for project managers, program managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently participate in agile projects. It is aligned with the Agile Certified Practitioner exam objectives developed by the Project Management Institute® and Certified ScrumMaster learning objectives.
Training videos, examples, exercices and quizzes will help you learn all about the Leading an Agile Team. And, if you take your time to go through all the learning materials this will entitle you to claim 5 PDU’s for the PMI certification exams and to maintain your PMI certification.
So, thank you for considering this course! Now, go ahead, and hit that "Take This Course" button. And, see you on the inside.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
168 Reviews
Sorin Dumitrascu
I'm Sorin Dumitrascu. I work as an advisor for an international humanitarian organization. Until 2025 I was City Manager of Ploiești, Romania (a city budget of about EUR 200 million), and earlier I was Deputy Director General of Romania's prison service. Since 2015 I have published nearly 200 courses here, taken by more than 360,000 learners.
I'm a public manager and a trainer of trainers, with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering practical courses in management, human resources, project, program and portfolio management, business analysis, operations and finance.
I teach what I practice. I have led and advised projects for the United Nations, the European Union, NGOs and private companies, with a focus on measurable results in organizational performance, industrial relations, prisons and corrections, and adult education.
My courses are built for busy professionals:
- Courses that prepare you for PMI and HR certification exams, plus Six Sigma
- Real case studies from the public sector and from companies
- Templates, checklists and practice resources you can use right away
- Clear, step-by-step lessons with practical assignments
Education: MSc in Policy Making in the European Union (Loughborough University, UK); Bachelor in Administrative Sciences (Public Administration), University of Craiova; Public Manager Diploma, National Institute of Administration (Romania).
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Reviews
By Mackenzie Johnson on 7/28/2022
I was looking for a course on how to lead an agile team, since I was a project manager but wasn't exactly sure how to lead an agile team. At first, I was skeptical about Udemy, since I read some not-so-positive reviews about it but I was surprised to see that this course was very useful to me. It was very detailed, with a lot of examples and screenshots. The instructor was also very responsive to me and answered all my questions. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to learn more about agile methodology and how to lead an agile team.
By Anna Lewis on 7/3/2022
I came across this course and thought it would be a great way for me to learn more about Agile practices and how to implement them. The instructor is a Certified Scrum Master and the course is designed for experienced project managers. The course is engaging and easy to follow. The course covers theory and practice, guiding you through the steps of leading an Agile team. I would recommend this course to anyone who is interested in learning more about Agile and how to implement it.
By Lauren Walker on 7/2/2022
I was looking for a solid course to help me refresh my Project Management skills and I found this. Udemy's PMI-ACP Certification course is one of the best resources I have come across in the past year. I appreciated the way the course was structured and taught, and Sorin's teaching style was a perfect fit for me. I think it's a great course for anyone looking to get their PMI-ACP certification, but also anyone looking to learn more about Agile Project Management.
By Jerald Platt on 6/15/2022
After I had some success with Agile practices, I decided to take the PMI-ACP certification course. The course was well organized and offered a lot of information. I learned a lot about what makes a good Agile project and techniques that I can use to improve my work and that of my team. I also enjoyed the practical examples and case studies. This is an excellent course for Agile enthusiasts and those who are considering taking the PMI-ACP certification course.
By Lauren Gonzalez on 6/9/2022
I needed an online course that would help me learn the skills I need to develop my career as a PMI-ACP Certified Agile Project Manager so I searched Udemy and found this course. I was able to learn everything I needed to know to pass my exam in a short period of time and I feel ready to become a certified project manager. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of Agile and how to lead an Agile team.
By Erick Sorrell on 6/6/2022
PMI-ACP Certification: Agile Project Management (Beginner) is a course on PMI-ACP Certification: Agile Project Management (Beginner) by Sorin Dumitrascu. The course is designed to provide you with a good understanding of the basics of agile project management, including the principles of agile, how to plan for an agile project, and the best practices for executing an agile project. This is a beginner course, but will still challenge you and provide you with valuable information for managing your own agile projects.
By Peter Keresztes on 10/8/2019
I tend to be direct in my reviews, giving praise when due, and being frank when I am disappointed. I have taken Udemy courses that have really impressed me, such as courses in Python coding. That being said, I find that in this course, 95% of what is being said is so rudimentary, if not banal, that whatever little there is being said that has any relevance, that part is totally obscured by the irrelevant nonsense. At best, there is a lot of things being said that are just common sense for anyone above 25 years of age, and especially if you have experience from team leadership, in whatever form, but in particular if you've managed projects before. Why do you need to know that "team members should be honest"?? Is this an agile principle??? Also, the method of spending most of the time on going through banal questions, then going through them again as some sneaky way of adding time, before saing yes/no or correct/incorrect, is dubious, very annoying and ineffective. I feel like this whole series could have been summarised into 5-10 minutes. The only reason I can imagine for it being so streeeetched out is that the course organiser is rewarded in some sort of relationship to the amount of video time he/she has produced. Disappointed.... Nevertheless, for the small amount I am paying, I can't really merit having any particular expectations. Also, I find that if I set the pace to x1.5 or x1.75 and just try to pick up those singular items of relevant concepts I come across along the way, then I will probably get my money's worth in the end anyway. And maybe it picks up in quality towards the end.
By Dunja Babali on 12/29/2017
Thanks for providing an in depth knowledge on scrum methodology and what is required to succeed in the method. Even though I am not from technical field but I think I can implement this as a project manager and also find it interesting to pursue as an enhanced career option. Trainer is energetic and experienced and its good to learn from his experience. The only thing that can be better is to include some templates and examples to understand how scrum review, daily scrum etc are done. Overall a great course!!
By Vijaya babu Suddapalli on 11/26/2017
The Video should be more interactive like a class room explanation , rather than reading through. Audio is not proper some times breaking and not able to identify the content explanation and question . Means not able to get exact concept.
By Asger Borup on 5/17/2017
Simplicity. Instructor is clear abd gets straight to the point which allows me to gain a full understanding of what im learning. The information is clear and concise and brings the concepts together. The trainer has really put an effort to expalain the concepts rather than just reading the slide contents. Whenever necessary, he has also provided inputs on what to expect on the exam from a certain process or knowledge area and how to answer.
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