Ag AgilePM® Combined (Foundation & Practitioner) Extended

Course Code: CLAPROJ5973

Duration

5 Day(s)

Course Type

Public or Private

Max Delegates

15

Delivery Style

Classroom

Learn all the key benefits of Agile and prepare for the world's leading certification in Agile Project Management.

Agile techniques have been gaining traction in recent years, helping companies to work more efficiently and effectively when delivering projects. This AgilePM course shows how to successfully combine Agile techniques with more traditional governance methodologies, such as PRINCE2® and PMI®. This Extended course allows for more time to focus on the practitioner element and further time to explore the content, it is suitable for delegates with little or no knowledge of AgilePM.

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Description

Who is this course for

This course is aimed at both Project Managers and all others involved in Project Management. The course is especially useful for anyone in engineering and information technology development for software projects and product or application development.

Purpose of the course

Agile techniques such as Scrum are highly regarded and can be wildly successful. Scrum on its own, however, focusses principally on getting work done. In this course, you will learn what Agile means, and will also learn how the DSDM framework wraps up techniques such as Scrum with a full project management lifecycle. DSDM is the name of the framework you will learn, and AgilePM is the certification for this framework.

You will learn how to


  • Use Agile techniques to help deliver successful projects consistently on time and within budget constraints.

  • Compare and contrast Agile approaches with more traditional Project Management techniques, such as PRINCE2®.

Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. Delegates new to project management will learn a great deal about how to manage projects. Existing project managers, or others involved in project management will learn a new way of looking at the project lifecycle.

Benefits for you as an individual

Understanding the different management style needed for successful agile projects compared to traditional projects will mean you can tailor your approach to different situations. Knowing how you can combine this knowledge with the more traditional management methodologies will allow you to adapt to a changing business environment.

 

 


 

Benefits for your organisation

Traditional Project Management is sometimes known as Big Design Up Front (BDUF), and can be fantastic. However, if you apply BDUF to the wrong sort of project, you are likely to be heading for trouble. This course teaches you the key questions to ask to decide whether a given project would benefit most from a Traditional approach, an Agile approach, or a combination of the two.

Agile Project Management Fundamentals

  • What is Agile?
  • Benefits of Agile
  • When to use Agile
  • Different Agile Methodologies
  • Preparing for a successful Agile project
  • Agile Project Management Principles

The Agile Project Management Process

  • Agile Project Management Framework
  • Configuring the Agile Project Lifecycle

Work Products and Deliverables

  • Management Products and Deliverables
  • Business Work Products and Deliverables
  • Technical Products and Deliverables

Agile Project Teams

  • DSDM and Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
  • Agile Project Team Empowerment
  • Agile Project Team Structure

Agile Project Management Practices

  • Facilitated Workshops
  • MoSCoW Prioritisation
  • Modelling
  • Iterative Development
  • Timeboxes and Sprints
  • Burndown Charts
  • Velocity

Project Management and Control

  • Agile Planning
  • Agile Risk Management
  • Agile Estimating and Measurement
  • Agile Configuration Management

Other Agile Project Management Concerns

  • Agile Requirements (Functional and Nonfunctional Requirements)
  • Agile Testing
  • Quality Management and Quality Control
  • Ensuring Maintainability and Scalability

Additional Exam Information

Foundation




  • 40 minute

  • Closed book

  • Multiple choice

  • Pass mark - 50%

  • Taken on Day 3 of the course



Practitioner




  • 2.5 hours

  • Open book (Only the DSDM handbook is allowed)

  • Scenario based

  • 80 questions

  • Pass mark - 50%

Pre-Coursework

A few hours of pre-course preparation is useful. The Pre-course book will be issued 4-6 weeks before the course, you will also receive a login for Quanta Learn to access further pre-course materials.

Please note, there may be a small amount of evening work to complete such as further reading or working though sample exam papers.


 
Excellent and informative instruction. Pleased to see some intelligent use of the short time frame to use Agile to resolve our questions.
- Mark Wilson Ramsay, Jaguar Land Rover (Whitley)
The tutors were superb, and I learnt far more than expected, the way the training was tailored was excellent. It far exceeded my expectations.
- Mark Ellison, Jaguar Land Rover (Whitley)
Tim is a fantastic tutor and really brings the content to life. He made us all very relaxed about the next stage of the course.
- Isobel Walker, University Of Birmingham
Excellent course content delivered clearly by Tim - the structure was excellent and the content was memorable because of the excellent delivery
- Rose Hannant
The trainer Tim Finch was brilliant. At first when I did the pre-reading I expected the course to be really dull but he brought the content to life and was…
- Emily Muscat, University Of Birmingham

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