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PRINCE2 Agile Foundation

Course outline

PR2A-F3 days
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Duration

3 days

Overview

Combine agile concepts with the world's most popular approach to project management. Developed in response to user communities, PRINCE2 Agile® provides structure, governance and control when working with agile concepts, methods and techniques.

Course Objectives

The PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certificate is designed to help professionals deliver agile projects by tailoring PRINCE2 management controls with a broad toolset of agile delivery techniques and frameworks.

The certification will help practitioners to:

Understand PRINCE2 governance requirements clearly and comprehensively

Gain a broad range of knowledge of agile concepts and techniques including: Scrum, Kanban, Lean Start-up and Cynefin

Explore the interface between PRINCE2 and agile ways of working.

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for taking the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certification

Who Should Attend

PRINCE2 Agile is suitable for anyone who delivers projects, large or small, in an agile context.

Module 1 – PRINCE 2 key concepts of project and PRINCE2

1.1: PRINCE2 principles:

  • Continued business justification
  • Learn from experience
  • Defined roles and responsibilities
  • Manage by stages
  • Manage by exception
  • Focus on products
  • Tailor to suit the project environment

1.2: PRINCE2 themes:

  • Business case
  • Organization
  • Quality
  • Plans
  • Risk
  • Change
  • Progress

1.3: PRINCE2 processes.

  • Starting up a project
  • Initiating a project
  • Directing a project
  • Controlling a stage
  • Managing product delivery
  • Managing a stage boundary
  • Closing a project

1.4: PRINCE2 management products.

  • Business case
  • Checkpoint report
  • Highlight report
  • Project brief
  • Project initiation documentation
  • Project product description
  • Work package
  • PRINCE2 roles.
  • Project board
  • Executive
  • Senior user
  • Senior supplier
  • Project manager
  • Team manager

Module 2 – PRINCE 2 key concepts of project and PRINCE2 Agile

2.1 PRINCE2 Agile in a project context

2.2 Agile ways of working for use with PRINCE2 Agile.

  • Kanban
  • Lean startup
  • Scrum

2.3 ‘Blend and weave’ PRINCE2 with agile

2.4 Roles, responsibilities and competencies of the PRINCE2 Agile delivery team.

  • Customer subject matter expert
  • Customer representative
  • Supplier subject matter expert
  • Supplier representative

Module 3 - PRINCE2 principles, themes, processes and

Management products in an agile context

3.1 PRINCE2 principles will be applied in an agile context.

  • Learn from experience
  • Defined roles and responsibilities
  • Manage by stages
  • Manage by exception
  • Focus on products
  • Tailor to suit the project environment
  • Continued business justification
  • PRINCE2 Agile behaviors.
  • Transparency
  • Collaboration
  • Rich communication
  • Self-organization
  • Exploration
  • PRINCE2 Agile guidance for each theme.
  • Business case
  • Organization
  • Quality
  • Plans
  • Risk
  • Change
  • Progress
  • PRINCE2 Agile guidance for process.
  • Starting up a project
  • Initiating a project
  • Directing a project
  • Controlling a stage
  • Managing product delivery
  • Managing a stage boundary
  • Closing a project

3.5 PRINCE2 Agile guidance for PRINCE2 management products.

  • Business case
  • Checkpoint report
  • Highlight report
  • Project brief
  • Project initiation documentation
  • Project product description
  • Work package

3.6 Fix and Flex

  • Be on time and hitting deadlines
  • Protect the level of quality
  • Embrace change
  • Keep teams stable
  • Accept that the customer doesn’t need everything
  • Fix and flex tolerances

Module 4 : Agile ways of working, key terms and techniques

4.1 Agile terms

  • Backlog (sprint, release & product)
  • Benefit (value)
  • Epic
  • Information radiator
  • Spike
  • Stand up meeting
  • Timebox (sprint, release)
  • Velocity
  • Waterfall methodology

4.2 key Agile concepts and techniques Scrum

  • Lean Startup (incl. MVP)
  • Retrospectives
  • User stories (incl. Definition of ‘ready’ and ‘done’)
  • Workshops
  • Burn charts
  • Agile Estimation (points and T-Shirt sizing)
  • Working Agreements

Module 5 : Focus areas in agile context

5.1PRINCE2 Agile focus areas.

  • Agilometer
  • Requirements
  • Rich communication
  • Frequent releases

Examination Information

Length of exam

1 hour

Number of questions

Question format

Multiple choice questions (single and multiple response)

Passing grade

55% on a scale of 100%

Exam availability

English, German, Polish, and Dutch.

Testing center

Accredited Training Organization (ATO) of Peoplecert

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.