Agile Project Management - Accredited by APMG (inc. Certified Foundation and Practitioner Exams)
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
4 days (3 day Foundation Course and Exam followed by 1 day preparation for, and participation in, 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.
“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.”
“A colleague and I took this course to aid us on an ongoing Agile project; we both had a relatively good understanding of the Agile concepts, but were not 100% sure of proper planning, governance and control within an Agile project. The course was extremely useful to us, as we had hit many of the standard challenges of moving to an Agile approach, and has allowed us to return to the project with a much better understanding of Project Management for Agile Projects; I personally came away looking forward to utilising the DSDM Atern methods.”