Sixteen years ago, Joel Bancroft-Connors stood in a room full of project managers and said, "You will pry waterfall from my cold, dead hands." He had just heard about Scrum and was convinced it had no place for people like him.
He was wrong. Figuring out why changed the direction of his career.
Project management didn't disappear when Scrum showed up. It evolved. The latest PMBoK reflects it. PMI's acquisition of the Agile Alliance confirmed it. And the millions of PMs now working alongside Scrum teams every day are living it.
This 8-hour course, delivered across two focused half-days, was built for exactly that reality. You'll leave knowing where your project management skills create genuine value in Scrum and hybrid environments, where the handoffs are, and how to operate effectively without stepping on Scrum accountabilities.
Taught by Joel Bancroft-Connors, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®), PMP, and one of the first 500 professionals worldwide to earn the PMI-ACP. He spent over a decade as a project and program manager at VMware, Symantec, EMC, and Hitachi. He was the PM who thought Scrum was a threat. Now he's the trainer who shows PMs how it fits.
What You'll Learn
- Where your project management role creates value in Scrum and hybrid environments, and where it doesn't
- How traditional project management responsibilities shift alongside Scrum accountabilities
- How to support team alignment, stakeholder communication, and delivery without taking on what belongs to the Scrum team
- Adaptive planning: estimation, forecasting, and incremental planning under real-world uncertainty
- How to translate agile delivery decisions into business language that lands with leadership and stakeholders
Course Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Two half-days: Thursday, May 21 + Friday, May 22, 2026
- 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM PDT (Noon to 4:00 PM EDT) each day
- Small group, highly interactive
- Scenario-based learning throughout
What You Earn
- Scrum for Project Managers Microcredential from Scrum Alliance (lifetime)
- 8 SEUs (Scrum Educational Units)
- 8 PMI PDUs
- Two-year Scrum Alliance membership (new members)
- Certification fees included
Who It's For
- Project managers working in or alongside Scrum teams
- PMs navigating hybrid environments, where predictive and adaptive work run side by side
- CSM or CSPO holders who want a PM-specific lens on how to apply what they learned
Prerequisites: foundational familiarity with Scrum concepts
Your Instructor
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Joel Bancroft-Connors, CST® | CTC® | PMP | PMI-ACP
The Gorilla Coach, LLC
Sixteen years ago, Joel was a died-in-the-wool waterfall project manager who thought Scrum had no place for people like him. He was wrong, and that realization sent him down a path that led to becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®), one of the first 500 professionals worldwide to earn the PMI-ACP, and a subject matter expert and course designer for Scrum Alliance, currently building the Optimizing Value microcredential as part of the new Certified Agile Coaching program.
He spent over a decade as a project and program manager at VMware, Symantec, EMC, and Hitachi before crossing over. He knows what the PM role looks like from the inside, which makes him a different kind of instructor for this course. He's not teaching theory. He's teaching the evolution he lived.
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