The Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) Foundation course, accredited by the APMG, and created in conjunction with the Agile Business Consortium, provides the world’s first independent certification in Agile Project Management.
It provides delegates with an understanding of how the Agile Project Management process can enable planning, management and control of successful and well-controlled Agile projects. The course provides the opportunity to gain certification as an Agile Project Manager at Foundation level.
While approaches such as eXtreme Programming, Scrum and Lean Software Development are widely used for evolutionary change, this approach to Agile Project Management is based on DSDM, the only established Agile approach encompassing a project concept and lifecycle.
Organisations often need an Agile approach which recognises the need for a project discipline with a deadline for delivery, a clear target for business value realisation and a controlled budget. Agile Project Management presents a coherent and easily replicated approach to planning, resourcing and managing a successful and well-disciplined Agile project.
Audience
Those who are likely to be involved in the management of Agile projects and programmes, including:
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Business Analysts
- Project Board and Project Steering Representatives
- Project Management Office Personnel
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Managers
Course Format
The training can be delivered in-person or live virtual. This is a 3-day skills-based course.
Course Objectives
- Apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of AgilePM in a project situation
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
- Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritization, iterative development and timeboxing
- Understand and assign roles and responsibilities within an Agile project
- Understand the mechanisms for governance and control of an Agile project
- Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
- Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements.
Course Topics
- Agile Project Management Fundamentals
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- What is Agile? Major agile approaches
- Benefits of Agile project management
- When to use Agile project management
- Risks and benefits of Agile
- Preparing for successful Agile projects
- Agile project management principles
- The Agile Project Management Process
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- Agile project management framework
- Configuring the Agile Project Lifecycle
- Products and Deliverables
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- Management, business and solution focus
- Agile Project Teams
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- Agile project roles and responsibilities
- Agile project team empowerment
- Agile project team structure
- Agile Project Management Techniques
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- Facilitated Workshops
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Iterative Development
- Timeboxing
- Modelling
- Project Management and Control
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- Agile requirements
- Agile planning
- Agile risk management
- Testing, quality and maintainability
- Agile estimating and measurement
- Agile configuration management
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Certification
Delegates sit a 40 minute closed book multiple choice Agile Project Management Foundation paper on the third day. This consists of 50 questions, with 30 correct answers (60%) required to pass.
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