Glossary term
What is Agile?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Agile" means: A way of working that delivers in small steps, learns from feedback and adjusts, instead of planning everything first. It is taught in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship. Related terms include Earned value, Scrum, Expected monetary value (EMV) and Sprint. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Agile?
A way of working that delivers in small steps, learns from feedback and adjusts, instead of planning everything first.
Where is Agile taught?
Agile is defined in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship.
Which lessons cover Agile?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 1.4: Predictive, Agile or Mixed: Choose How You Will Work
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 5.1: Agile Values and the Scrum Frame at a Glance
Which terms are related to Agile?
Next to Agile in the course glossaries: Earned value, Scrum, Expected monetary value (EMV), Sprint, Risk, Product backlog, Management reserve and User story.
Earned valueScrumExpected monetary value (EMV)SprintRiskProduct backlogManagement reserveUser story
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Agile?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship: None. You do not need any project management experience.