Duration
5 days
Why AgilePM?
- A tried & tested corporate approach:
- Based on the Agile Business Consortium's Agile Project Framework (established for over 20 years).
- Provides governance & rigour along with the agility & flexibility demanded by organizations today.
- Adopted by a wide range of organizations representing various sectors & industries.
- Informality of many agile approaches is daunting and sometimes perceived as too risky.
- AgilePM offers a mature approach offering agility & flexibility whilst retaining concepts of a project, project delivery & project management.
- Clear roles & responsibilities:
- AgilePM assigns clear roles & responsibilities to each person in a project, representing the business, solution/technical, management and process interests.
- AgilePM advocates close collaboration, open communication & team empowerment to break down potential communication barriers.
- Quality, governance & risk management:
- AgilePM advocates high-level acceptance criteria at various stages throughout the project lifecycle to ensure solutions meet the business need & project objectives.
- AgilePM directly addresses common risks for projects, incorporating a Project Approach Questionnaire for understanding risks & their mitigation.
- One of the framework’s underlying principles is Never Compromise Quality.
- Popular agile practices incorporated to support effective solution development:
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Timeboxing
- Iterative Development
- Integrates with existing processes:
- AgilePM was designed pragmatically to work alongside more formalized project management approaches such as PRINCE2®, and can be dovetailed into formalized quality processes such as ISO9001.
Target Audience
- Project Support (e.g. team members, developers)
- Practicing and aspiring project managers (junior / regular / senior)
- Suitable for a wide range of sectors and industries
- Particularly well suited to volatile and innovative projects, where scope is more likely to change (i.e. software development)
Benefits for individuals
- Deliver quicker, cost-effective and low risk change by implementing a tried and tested approach to agile project management.
- Understand the background of agile in project management and the differences compared to traditional / alternative approaches.
- Equip yourself with the core principles, concepts and processes required for successful agile projects.
- Learn how to apply the DSDM approach to projects.
- Boost communication and stakeholder engagement skills; critial for successful projects.
- Clarify different management styles needed for successful agile projects compared to traditional projects and be able to tailor these to the situation.
- Embrace an evolutionary development approach for more effective solutions.
- Help organizations deliver effectively, at a lower cost and with lower risk, by continually validating project milestones against business objectives.
- Implement an Agile methodology into your daily activities.
- Become an informed member of a project team using DSDM and AgilePM practices.
- Enhance your CV and boost future employment prospects.
- Successful candidates get a year’s free membership to the Agile Business Consortium.
Benefits for organizations
- Deliver change faster and more effectively by adopting a tried & tested approach to agile project management; underlying framework established and regularly refined for over 20 years.
- Offers a structured and scalable corporate Agile framework based on proven practice.
- Achieves an ideal balance between the standards, rigour and visibility required for good project management, and the fast-pace, change and empowerment provided by Agile.
- Covers the full project lifecycle, from initiation & foundations through to project close.
- Ensures clear roles & responsibilities are allocated to each person in a project, representing all key stakeholder groups.
- Built-in quality, governance and risk management controls to ensure ongoing viability of the project at various stages throughout the lifecycle.
- Incorporates and encourages a range of popular agile practices to support effective product and solution development.
- Incorporates a specific process for change management to ensure support for end users and other project stakeholders.
- Forster improved collaboration and communications between project teams and other stakeholders.
- Complements and works with existing corporate processes such as PRINCE2®, quality and audit processes.
Syllabus
Four key areas:-
- Lifecycle and Products
- People and Roles
- Techniques
- Planning and Control
Exams
FOUNDATION
PRACTITIONER
Multiple-choice format
Objective-testing format
50 questions
4 questions (20 marks each)
50% pass mark (25/50)
50% pass mark (40/80)
40 minutes
2.5 hours
Closed-book
Open-book (Handbook permitted)
No pre-requisites
Foundation pass pre-requisite
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.