Agile Project Management - Accredited by APMG (including Certified Foundation Exam)
Course Details
This training course is a stable-mate to PRINCE2, ITIL and Managing Successful Programmes, with accreditation and certification by the APMG to both Foundation and Practitioner levels.
Agile approaches such as eXtreme Programming, Scrum and Lean Software Development are becoming increasingly mainstream. They describe how to successfully deliver in complex situations when requirements and possible solutions are subject to continuous change; but they stop short of describing a full project lifecycle with defined Phases, Work Products, Roles and Responsibilities. This course covers how to operate in such an Agile fashion within an overall project framework which is accredited as a stable-mate to PRINCE2 and based on the DSDM Atern approach. Through practical experience of the Agile style of working, case studies and example scenarios from a highly experienced trainer, it provides delegates with an understanding of how the Agile Project Management process can enable planning, management and control for predictable Agile project deliveries.
Audience
The course is aimed at Project Managers and others involved in Project Management who want to understand how to apply Agile approaches within an overall project management lifecycle framework.
Content
- Agile Project Management Fundamentals
- What is Agile Project Management?
- Benefits of Agile Project Management
- When to use Agile Project Management
- 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
- Agile Project Roles and Responsibilities
- Agile Project Team Empowerment
- Agile Project Team Structure
- Agile Project Management Practices
- Facilitated Workshops
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Modelling
- Iterative Development
- Timeboxing
- 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 Details
Duration
3 days including Foundation exam for Certification.
[Optional additional 1-day for Practitioner exam preparation and Practitioner exam]
Setup
Laptop projection; flip charts; U shape room layout; space for syndicate groups to work.
Options
Maximum Number of Delegates: 10-15, exceptionally up to 20
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Testimonials
Prior to the course, my exposure to Agile was through Scrum, to me it appeared to be at odds with a structured project management methodology, in that it talked about self-regulating teams, reduced reporting etc. After the course I am convinced that for successful responsive projects Agile is the future, Agile complements MSP and PRINCE2 environments.
“We are starting our first proper Agile project with no in-house experience of ‘Agile’ per se; a number of colleagues have been on a DSDM Atern Practitioner course but it still left a number of unanswered questions. We may have found the answers by our own research but not only has this course answered many of those questions and galvanised our thinking and belief that we need to work in a more collaborative way, it has provided the foundation to identify our approach to what and how we organise ourselves within our key business change project.”
“As a lean manufacturing specialist, I realised that the batch size of products being pushed through the factory had the same effect as the total number of requirements being managed through the project. And that is actually what you do when you use the traditional waterfall Project Management approach. What works in production (smaller batch sizes) works also in Agile Project Management (short iterations with only a balanced selection of deliverables). During this course, I was working as project manager on a mobile brand start-up. Along the project we started with short iterations but I had some difficulties managing the priorities and determining who should be doing what. Rather than inventing this myself over the coming years, I attended this course and learned about Agile Project Management in a practical, easy and fast way. I knew what to do and introduced the improvements the following week. After just one iteration, I can also say it worked.”