Description

Prepare your team to achieve Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) Foundation and Practitioner certifications with this highly successful Agile project management certification training course. As an APMG certified AgilePM Practitioner, you will possess a deep knowledge of the Agile project management methodology, and demonstrate skills for developing solutions incrementally, enabling teams to handle changing requirements effectively, improving team collaboration, and empowering individuals.

This 5-day AgilePM Certification course includes both exams and provides greater opportunity to discuss and explore the ideas and techniques behind the AgilePM methodology. It also allows you to take the Practitioner exam on the morning of the final day – leading to improved pass marks compared to exams taken during afternoons. You will take the Foundation exam on Day 2 of the course and the Practitioner exam on Day 5 of the course.

Learning Objectives

Achieving Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) Foundation & Practitioner Certification Course Benefits:

• Prepare for the AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner certification exams
• Establish and lead a successful Agile project with the methodology developed by the DSDM Consortium
• Review practical and repeatable practises for project managers in an Agile environment
• Apply Agile techniques, such as modelling, prioritising, timeboxing, user stories, and estimating
• Manage, define, and deliver a solution acceptable to the business

Prerequisites

Experience at the level of:

• Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean & XP, or
• Certified Scrum Product Owner

If new to project management, experience at the level of:

• Project Management: Skills for Success, or
• Project Management for Software Development

• Familiarity with project work, either as a project manager or as another role on a project – this course is not designed to teach people how to be a project manager, it is intended to provide an agile framework to those who already have some basic project experience.
• It is not necessary to have prior agile experience (for example, Scrum) – the pre-reading material provided for this course will provide the background necessary to be successful.

Course Outline

Introduction to Agile Project Management

Establishing Agile Fundamentals

• Exploring the relationship between Agile, AgilePF and DSDM
• Contrasting traditional waterfall project management approaches with DSDM
• Integrating DSDM with best practice methods
• Outlining the eight principles that guide DSDM

Preparing for an Agile project

• Analysing the Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ)
• Accepting the DSDM philosophy
• Identifying a successful team style

Building the Foundations for an Agile Project

Completing pre-project activities

• Ensuring that the right projects are started and set up correctly
• Identifying important members of the team
• Planning the Feasibility Phase

Assessing project feasibility

• Confirming that a solution exists
• Creating an outline business case
• Defining the project organisation structure
• Planning the Foundation Phase

Setting firm foundations for an Agile project

• Integrating business, solution and management perspectives
• Establishing a Prioritised Requirements List (PRL)
• Defining project and solution standards
• Agreeing on roles and responsibilities
• Extending the outline business case
• Baselining a schedule of project activities

Evolving an Accurate Solution

Investigating and designing options

• Iteratively exploring detailed requirements and confirming viability
• Iteratively modelling solutions
• Refining the evolving solution to meet prioritised business needs
• Expanding and refining products

Incorporating DSDM project management techniques

• Timeboxing development cycles
• Controlling progress throughout the project
• Delivering a quality product to meet requirements
• Managing project risk

Deploying Solutions

Releasing to the business

• Achieving acceptance from stakeholders
• Planning the release
• Transferring ownership to the business environment
• Migrating products into live use
• Training end users and completing documentation

Closing the project

• Confirming that the benefits can still be delivered
• Formally closing the project
• Evaluating the project to support continuous improvement

Conducting post-project activities

• Assessing whether the project benefits have been achieved
• Comparing the results of the projects to the original business case

Foundation and Practitioner Exams

Preparing for the exams

• Gaining insight into the exam process
• Applying proven tips for exam success
• Practising with sample test questions

Foundation Exam (Day 2)

• Completing the necessary APMG paperwork
• Taking the foundation exam

Practitioner Exam (Day 5)

• Taking the practitioner exam