I recently purchased the MS Project 2016 Live Lessons course, which has both traditional (waterfall) and Agile content. It has been an invaluable learning experience for me.
The course provides a well-structured approach to understanding how MS Project, which can be effectively used for traditional project management and also for Agile project management. I've been using the CHAMP certification course in parallel with MS Project Live Lessons.
The current review is first with respect to using the MSP Live Lessons and then getting into CHAMP certification course.
What I Liked?
Following are the ones I liked most about the courses.
Comprehensive Content: The courses cover everything from Traditional and Agile fundamentals to advanced MS Project features.
Practical Approach: The courses have hands-on exercises and real-world examples helped me grasp key concepts.
Clear Instructions: The instructor explains complex topics in a simple and easy-to-follow manner.
Great for Project Managers: The courses are perfect for anyone managing Traditional or Agile projects and looking to streamline planning and execution.
My Key Takeaways
I now feel confident using MS Project to manage Traditional and needed Agile workflows, track progress, and improve team collaboration.
I highly recommended for professionals looking to enhance their project management skills with Agile methodologies.
Features in the Courses
Following are the unique and distinct aspects of these courses.
1. Hands-on Practical Approach
The course includes real-world scenarios, case studies, and interactive exercises to ensure learners can apply their knowledge in actual projects.
2. Seamless Integration of Traditional and Agile with MS Project
Along with the traditional MS Project courses, this course specifically focuses on how Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) can be implemented within MS Project. As I'm using both CHAMP and MSP courses, I use both to learn traditional with agile.
3. Step-by-Step Guidance
The instructor breaks down complex Agile and MS Project functionalities into simple, actionable steps, making it easy to follow along—even for beginners.
4. Balanced Focus on Traditional and Agile Methods
These courses are well-suited for hybrid project managers as it provides insights into how with MS Project you can manage both Waterfall and Agile approaches.
It covers Agile-specific tools such as Sprint planning, task boards, burndown charts, and backlog management, making it suitable for Agile project managers as well.
Brief Profile: Sanjeev Kaushal, PMP
Current Role:Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in Software Development.
Before getting into CHAMP certification, I had a face-to-face, virtual meet-up with Satya, where I asked what I should pursue first. As per his suggestion, I started my journey by first completing the MS Project Agile course.
The CHAMP certification was a natural progression and I also really wanted the full certification for its credibility as it is a niche skill.
Own Study – CHAMP Certification
To achieve my CHAMP credential, I diligently followed the videos in the order set out and made time whenever I could. They are nice and short; hence it makes it easily digestible.
In the course, all the videos are clearly explained and they are very thorough so you get to repeat the steps in subsequent videos.
Review – CHAMP Certification Course
The course is very niche, extremely detailed and uses MS Project tools. The certification is a unique selling point (USP) in itself. I have not seen anything like this before and it truly gives you all the learnings.
Once you get to grips with adding the data and setting up the Hybrid Agile plan, I found the reporting topics were useful, as you get to slice and dice the data in different ways i.e., how to report on earned value management (EVM), the baselines for the traditional part and resourcing.
Throughout the course, there are lots of opportunities to recap and take the short tests. After completing the whole course, a full set of questions and answers (Q&A) helped me to see how much I learned and what parts I needed to go over again.
CHAMP Exam Experience
After completing the course, I believed I was prepared for the CHAMP exam. I asked Satya to provide me with the online link for the test. The exam has 50 questions to be taken in 1 hour (60 minutes).
For the exam, my strategy was simple. I just made sure I read the questions properly and not rush them. I knew some of the questions straight away. However, for some of the others, I needed to go back and check on them.
After completing, I thought I didn’t clear the exam and thought I have to retake the test. But Satya informed me that I’ve cleared as I have scored 70%, which is needed to be CHAMP certified! I received my certificate afterwards.
Suggestions for CHAMP Aspirants
Dos
If you like this style of learning (hands-on) and also want to get certified in a niche skill, then I would suggest you just go for it.
Don’ts
If you are not managing Agile/Hybrid-Agile projects, you may not need it.
Conclusion
The CHAMP certification is of high standard and to be a CHAMP, you need to be well prepared. The course is so practical! You can apply your learnings in your day-to-day projects in a hands-on manner.
Brief Profile: Ravi O’Reilly, CHAMP, Programme Planning Manager, UK Transport and Govt. related projects.
The Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional or CHAMP certification courseis one of the few best courses I have attended. The course provides very detailed, step-by-step examples on how to go about implementing the concepts of Hybrid Project Management. Satya, the creator of the course, is an excellent teacher and very dedicated to what he does.
I enrolled in this course because I wanted to know more about agile project management especially on how we go about incorporating these agile features in MS Project. Most of the infrastructure projects that I have planned during my long career in IT was very much based on the traditional predictive approach. This course gave me the opportunity to fill this missing gap in my understanding.
Why this Certification Course?
The important strength of the CHAMP certification course was it starts from the beginning of planning a project via the traditional waterfall approach which we are all so used to. Then the course slowly guides us on how to incorporate the agile features such as Scrum and Kanban in this project plan, thus ending with a full-blown Hybrid project plan.
This course will give you a broad understanding on how to go about managing a project which takes advantage of the strength of two distinct project management approaches – namely predictive and adaptive.
You will also get the opportunity to clear a lot of your questions and doubts on your understanding on how projects are planned during Satya’s Management Review Sessions.I found these sessions most valuable as it reinforces my understanding and enabled me to gain more insights of the current industry practices.
CHAMP Certification Course – Key Features
After completing the course, you will find that the whole curriculum of CHAMP certification course is well thought of and well planned for you.
In my view, following are the key aspects:
It guides you from the very beginning right up to the final project reports.
The course is structured very methodically, and all videos are short and very precise in showing what is being covered in course content.
A lot of tricks, techniques and tips are shared by Satya to make you more productive as a Hybrid-Agile master practitioner. His instructions are very clear and easy to understand.
You will get answers to any additional queries you may have during the course promptly.
Every module is well guided, and all the instructional videos are clear and easy to follow.
Concepts are clearly explained, and tips and techniques are also shown along the way enable you to be more productive in your Hybrid-Agile planning.
Most of us are familiar with waterfall planning using MS Project but are unsure of how to include the agile features in the same project plan. I found the topics/lessons Hybrid Project with MS Project, Hybrid Scrum Project and Hybrid Scrum Project Reporting the most interesting and informative.
I guarantee that after going through these topics you will not have any apprehension on how to plan a hybrid project using MS Project.
CHAMP Certification Course – Lessons and Coverage
There are 11 lessons in this course (see main webpage for details). At the end of each lesson you get a chance to test your understanding on well-crafted situational scenarios of hybrid-project management issues.
The other strong point is that this being a video based instructional course you can replay the instructional videos as many times as you wish until you are satisfied with the understanding before moving on to the next lesson.
Each lesson’s video is short, self-contained, and well organized and you able to achieve the objective of the lesson very quickly.
The quality of the video and audio are excellent and understanding Satya’s instructions and accent is not an issue. You can grasp all the technical concepts very easily.
Conclusion
If you are someone who is in the software development area or managing software projects this course is a must attend. It will empower you to be an effective project manager and enhance your career path in this field of project management.
You will gain a lot of insights from Satya from his vast experience in this field that will enrich your understanding in this area of project management.
The investment you put for this certification course is money and time well spent.
Brief Profile: Dr Kish Ranai, CHAMP is a management professional, based out of Singapore.
There are a number of questions raised by many Agile practitioners on ManagementYogi’s Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional Online Course. I’ve tried to address as many questions here.
Question – 1: What are the applicability, validity and price of this course?
Answer: This course combines theory and practical. Theory part covers the needed content for the Hybrid-Agile with a variety of Models, examples, needs of Hybrid projects and their management.
Practical part covers the hands-on practical with MS Project 2019 with its Agile features. With the practical part, you will have hands-on and in-depth learning of Hybrid-Scrum management, Hybrid-Kanban management and Hybrid-Kanban management.
This course will be valid for 3 or 6 months, from the date of purchase. The price of the course is $95 USD (or Rs 8,549) for 3 months access and $159 USD (Rs 14,309) for 6 months access. I believe it is one of the lowest priced Hybrid-Agile certification courses in the world. But it comes with high quality.
This course also comes with a full money-back guarantee, without any tricky (and mostly useless to you) terms and conditions.
Question – 2: What is the duration of the course?
Answer: The course is of 14.5 hours of duration, which you can complete in 3 months or 6 months. The entire course is in video format. It has been divided into 10 (+1) individual lessons. In total, there are 138 videos and 101 exercise files.
Question – 3: What is the certification offered by this course?
Answer: This course comes with an end-exam with a set of questions, which covers both theory and practical aspects of Hybrid-Agile Management. To clear the exam, you need score at least 70%. Questions’ standard will be tough and high-quality. Questions will be real-world scenario driven.
With completion of the course and clearing of the end course exam, you will receive the unique credential: Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional (CHAMP).
Question – 4: Is there any prerequisite for this certification course?
Answer: There are two prerequisites for this certification course:
Basic understanding of Waterfall model, and Agile frameworks: Scrum and Kanban
Basic understanding of MS Project with its Agile features
Question – 5: How many questions will be there in the Certified Hybrid-Agile Master exam?
Answer: There will be 50 questions in the exam, which you have to complete in 1 hour (or 60 minutes). To reiterate, questions’ standard will be tough, high-quality and will be real-world scenario driven.
The exam will be online and can be taken anytime. After you complete the exam, the exam score will be immediately visible to you. Detailed score and analysis will be sent to you shortly afterwards.
If you have cleared the exam, you will receive Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional or CHAMP credential, along with the detailed score and analysis.
Question – 6: You mentioned that a 70% score is needed to clear the exam. Is there any exam retake? Is there any retake fee?
Answer: You can have two attempts, including the first one. If you could not clear the exam in the first attempt, you can take another attempt.
The course fee includes the exam fee for the first attempt. There is NO fee at all for retaking the exam. The second attempt will be completely free of cost to you.
Question – 7: Why should I go for this CHAMP certification course? What’s unique about this certification course?
Answer: To know more on the key benefits of this course, you can watch this video:
The above video outlines a number of course benefits.
Unlike many courses available in the world today, this course has in-depth theory and hands-on practical with an Agile Management software tool, i.e., MS Project Agile. Hence, you can apply the theoretical understanding in a hands-on manner. Your Certified Hybrid-Agile Master credential demonstrates your knowledge of Hybrid-Agile theory and hands-on practical.
Question – 8: Are there any continuing certification requirements like earning more professional units, or making payments every few years?
Answer: No. There is no renewal fee for this course. There are also no perpetual payment schemes.
You will get the credential one-time and it’ll continue to remain valid.
Question – 9: Are there any PDUs or SEUs offered by this course?
Answer: Yes, absolutely.
You can claim up-to 16 PDUs (in different PDU categories) with the completion of this course and earning the Certified Hybrid-Agile Master credential. You can claim an equivalent number of SEUs as well. These can help you to maintain your other credentials such as RMP, ACP, PMP, Scrum Master or Product Owner certifications.
Question – 10: How is it different from the certification courses on Scrum or Kanban?
Answer: This is a certification course on Hybrid-Agile. Hybrid-Agile combines two or more Agile approaches. In other words, it’s not specific to any standalone prescribed Agile frameworks. It combines Waterfall, Scrum and Kanban. With this course, you learn in-depth:
Hybrid-Scrum Management
Hybrid-Kanban Management
Hybrid-Scrumban Management
Many organizations don't use an individual Agile framework, say Scrum or Kanban. In fact, a 2017-18 report on Scrum informed that a large number of practitioners were using Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban together. In another report for Scrum Master trends in 2019, a combination of approaches being used went beyond 80%.
Hence, Hybrid-Agile projects and their management are a reality and must-have for project management practitioners. It’s unlike any standalone Agile framework.
Difference 1:The Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional (CHAMP) course is a full-fledged certification course and comes with a detailed end-course exam. In the end-course exam (NOT assessment), you have to take an online exam. To clear the exam, you have to score at least 70% percent.
Mastering MS Project 2019 Agile and MS Project Live Lessons courses are not certification-oriented courses. These courses are designed to have in-depth learning. On completion of the course, you will receive the course completion certificates. These courses don’t come with an end-course exam and hence, are not certification oriented.
Difference 2:The Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional course combines both theory and hands-on practical. Mastering MS Project 2019 Agile is a completely practical oriented course.
Question - 12: Is there any detailed course index for this course to check? Not just a few lines, but the entire course index.
Answer: Yes, absolutely. You can see the entire course index.
To see the complete course content and index, you can refer the below link:
If you need a soft downlodable file, just drop me a mail. I'll send it you.
Important Note: You can also check 20 videos of this certification course, before paying any money (purchasing the course).
Question - 13: Why I should opt for this online course, instead of classroom Hybrid-Agile training?
Answer: As a matter of fact, there is no such course worldwide, which combines both theory and practical in Hybrid-Agile management. Hence, no one can provide this training to you.
The other aspect is online learning. Online learning is having the following positive aspects:
Convenient - you can learn at your own time with your own speed. You can watch the content as many times as you want.
Longer duration – 3 or 6 months of duration (not just 2 days of training)
Low cost - much lower than classroom training
Also, if you are going for a classroom training (if anyone can provide such practical and theory training), but the training is useless because you understood little to nothing, then where is the value?
As informed before, many don’t know how to apply Hybrid-Agile with a real-world hands-on tool. Hence, they can’t provide the training or learning.
Question - 14: This course comes with MS Project Agile as hands-on tool. But I’ve been using other Agile tools. How will this course help?
Answer: Irrespective of the tools used, the management concepts remain similar.
Hybrid-Management concepts such as Hybrid-Models, Hybrid-Scrum, Hybrid-Sprint Management, Hybrid-Kanban, Hybrid-Backlog Management, Hybrid-Burndown/Burnup charts, Hybrid-Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Waterfall with Scrum and Kanban (Hybrid-ScrumBan), Baseline of Hybrid projects, Tracking of Hybrid Projects etc. are all used across Agile tools.
Hence, it’ll be useful to apply these understanding in other tools. Learning in one tool, helps to quickly grasp concepts in other tools.
Question - 15: Why should I go with Management Yogi, compared to others?
Answer: Indeed, there are many providers who provide Agile training. In fact, hundreds of them! And everyone claims to preparing:
Masters in Scrum, Masters in Agile, Master in Product Management and so on.
But the reality is no one becomes a master in anything in just 2-days of training.
As you would know, it takes time to learn and get mastery. More importantly, you should have the ability to apply your theoretical understanding with a hands-on, practical tool. Few providers, if at all, can claim to provide both theory and practical on Hybrid-Agile management. Many, in fact, don’t know how to do it.
This course is of long-duration, has needed theory, in-depth and hands-on practical. It’s followed by an end-course exam, which thoroughly evaluates your understanding. Hence, with this certification, you have a much deeper learning.
Question - 16: Will there be any support if any questions arise during the learning of Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional (CHAMP) course?
Answer: Yes, definitely. Please send an email to managementyogi@gmail.com and your questions will be answered within 3 working days or 72 hours.
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If you have any other questions or clarifications, please send a mail to managementyogi@gmail.com. If this course has those features, I’ll inform you with all the details. If it does not, then also, you will be clearly informed. There won’t be any round-about answers.
It’s a complete video course on Hybrid-Agile Management with both theory and practical. Certified Hybrid-Agile Master course is an in-depth, hands-on, practical-oriented Certification Course and literally, only such course, worldwide. It also comes with full money back guarantee.
While Agile practitioners use a large number of stand-alone frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban, many organizations execute their projects with a Hybrid-Approach. Multiple trends on various Agile frameworks inform this reality of Hybrid-Agile. In fact, some reports inform that usage of Hybrid-Agile is more than 80%!
A Hybrid-Agile approach combines two or more Agile and Non-Agile approaches. A Hybrid-Agile approach also follows real-life. Taking an example, no one takes the same prescribed meal (like a prescribed framework) every day! You mix and match the content of your meal based on your appetite, health-condition, and availability. Similarly, many organizations follow Hybrid-Agile approaches, which best meet their project requirements, project type, complexity and associated deliverables.
This course is highly needed by Agile practitioners as Hybrid-Agile projects are quite advanced, complex, and many times difficult to manage. With this course, you will know:
Hybrid-Scrum Management
Hybrid-Kanban Management
Hybrid-Scrumban Management
You learn and work with a number of foundational as well as advanced conceptsin Hybrid-Agile Management:
Building a variety of Hybrid-Agile projects
Adjustment and tracking Hybrid-Agile projects
Baselining and Baseline Management in Hybrid-Agile
Earned Value Reporting in Hybrid-Agile
Hybrid-Scrum Burndown/Burnup charts (for Scrum as well Traditional)
Various Histogram and Pie Charts
Hybrid-Kanban Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
Closing Hybrid-Agile projects
With this course, you will also have an End Course Exam. On clearing the exam, you get the Certified Hybrid-Agile Master credential, indicating your mastery over hands-on Hybrid-Agile Management.
Top 10 Features: Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional
Total Video Duration: 14+ hours (14h 21m 40s)
Number of Videos: 138
Number of Lessons: 10 (+1)
Total Exercises (Practical): 100+
End-course exam and credential as a Certified Hybrid-Agile Master.
In depth understanding of Hybrid Scrum, Hybrid Kanban, and Hybrid ScrumBan.
Ability to apply the concepts with the Hands-On tool of MS Project Agile.
Generate various reports such as Hybrid Burndown/Burnup Chart, Hybrid CFDs, Hybrid Sprint Reports, Hybrid Histograms and Pie Charts, Hybrid Earned Value reports, among many others.
A large number of exercise and solutions files (over 100), which you can download, use and practice.
A large number of tips and tricks points to know throughout the course.
To know the key benefits of this course, you can watch the below video.
Course Breakdown: Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional
This course comes with an end-exam with a set of questions, which covers both theory and practical of Hybrid-Agile Management. To clear the exam, you need at least 70% score.
With completion of the course and clearing of the end course exam, you will receive the unique credential: Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional with MS Project.
Unlike many courses available in the world today, this course has in-depth theory and practical with an Agile Management software tool. Hence, you can apply the theoretical understanding in a hands-on manner. Your Certified Hybrid-Agile Master credential demonstrates your knowledge of Hybrid-Agile theory and practical.
What is Full Money Back Guarantee for this Course?
There are no little tricks, such as – “terms and conditions apply”, “** conditions apply”, “guarantee not applicable if you have seen 15% of the course”, “give at least one attempt or we will refund your money” etc., as you would have seen in many places. What you see and read here is what you get.
The premise is simple.
Go through the complete course for 15 days. 100% video content of this course will be available to you. If you don’t like the course, I’ll refund your full money.
Note: You can also evaluate the videos before paying any money. Twenty (20) videos will be available for your evaluation, even before your purchase.
Applicability and Validity
Theory Used – Hybrid-Agile Management combining Traditional, Scrum and Kanban
Software Used – MS Project 2019 Online Desktop Client
Course Pre-requisites – Basics understanding of Scrum, Kanban and MS Project Agile
Price – $95 USD / Rs 8,549 (3 months access) $159 USD / Rs 14,309 (6 months access) Extension is also available. Price calculation will be pro-rata.
Payment – paypal.me/managementyogi (Login, Send your payment to paypal account of ndsatya@gmail.com,Enter the amount; Invoice will be generated after payment) OR, you can pay via Bank Transfer or Payment. For this, please send a mail to managementyogi@gmail.com to get account the details.
Available since – November, 2021
Primary Format – Video, Accessible
Status – Available (accessible via laptop/desktop)
Detailed Course Breakdown
The detailed course breakdown is shown below. It details hours of learning, number of videos and various exercise details. You can scroll to see the full content.
For a frequently asked questions (FAQs) of this certification course, refer the post:
