Duration
3 days (Virtual 2 x2 hr)
Overview
The Agile Project Management Foundation certification provides you with the core principles you need to facilitate a successful project, while allowing a degree of scope and agility that not many other methodologies provide.
Target Audience
- Practicing and aspiring project managers (junior / regular / senior)
- Project Support (e.g. team members, delvelopers)
- 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.
Four key areas
- Lifecycle and Products
- People and Roles
- Techniques
- Planning and Control
Exam
- Multiple-choice format
- 50 questions
- 50% pass mark (25/50)
- 40 minutes
- Closed-book
- No pre-requisites
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.