Description
Description
Equip your team for AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training by enrolling in this highly effective Agile project management certification training course. As a certified AgilePM Practitioner through APMG, you will acquire in-depth knowledge of the Agile project management methodology. You will showcase proficiency in developing solutions incrementally, enabling teams to adeptly handle changing requirements, fostering improved collaboration, and empowering individuals.
This 5-day AgilePM Certification course incorporates both exams, offering ample opportunities for discussion and exploration of the ideas and techniques underpinning the AgilePM methodology. Additionally, it allows you to take the Practitioner exam on the morning of the final day, contributing to enhanced pass marks compared to exams administered in the afternoon.
Training Objectives
- Prepare for the AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner certification exams. (Exam voucher expires 12 months from booking date)
- Establish and lead a successful Agile project with the methodology developed by the DSDM Consortium.
- Review practical and repeatable practices for project managers in an Agile environment.
- Apply Agile techniques such as modelling prioritising time boxing user stories and estimating.
- Manage define and deliver a solution acceptable to the business.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction to Agile Project Management<br />
- Establishing Agile Fundamentals<
- Exploring the relationship between Agile, AgilePF, and DSDM<br />
- Contrasting traditional waterfall project management approaches with DSDM<br />
- Integrating DSDM with best practice methods<br />
- Outlining the eight principles that guide DSDM<br />
- Preparing for an Agile project<
- Analysing the Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ)<br />
- Accepting the DSDM philosophy<br />
- Identifying a successful team style<
- Module 2: Building the Foundations for an Agile Project<br />
- Completing pre-project activities<
- Ensuring that the right projects are started and set up correctly<br />
- Identifying essential members of the team<br />
- Planning the Feasibility Phase<br />
- Assessing project feasibility<
- Confirming that a solution exists<br />
- Creating an outline business case<br />
- Defining the project organisation structure<br />
- Planning the Foundation Phase<br />
- Setting firm foundations for an Agile project<
- Integrating business, solution, and management perspectives<br />
- Establishing a Prioritised Requirements List (PRL)<br />
- Defining project and solution standards<br />
- Agreeing on roles and responsibilities<br />
- Extending the outline business case<br />
- Baselining a schedule of project activities<
- Module 3: Evolving an Accurate Solution<br />
- Investigating and designing options<
- Iteratively exploring detailed requirements and confirming viability<br />
- Iteratively modelling solutions<br />
- Refining the evolving solution to meet prioritised business needs<br />
- Expanding and refining products<br />
- Incorporating DSDM project management techniques<
- Timeboxing development cycles<br />
- Controlling progress throughout the project<br />
- Delivering a quality product to meet requirements<br />
- Managing project risk<
- Module 4: Deploying Solutions<br />
- Releasing to the business<
- Achieving acceptance from stakeholders<br />
- Planning the release<br />
- Transferring ownership to the business environment<br />
- Migrating products into live use<br />
- Training end users and completing documentation<br />
- Closing the project<
- Confirming that the benefits can still be delivered<br />
- Formally closing the project<br />
- Evaluating the project to support continuous improvement<br />
- Conducting post-project activities<
- Assessing whether the project benefits have been achieved<br />
- Comparing the results of the projects to the original business case<
- Module 5: Foundation and Practitioner Exams<br />
- Preparing for the exams<
- Gaining insight into the exam process<br />
- Applying proven tips for exam success<br />
- Practicing with sample test questions<br />
- Foundation Exam (Day 2)<
- Completing the necessary APMG paperwork<br />
- Taking the foundation exam<br />
- Practitioner Exam (Day 5)
