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Agile project management (Agilepm®)
Virtual or Classroom Training
Format
All
Skill Level
5 Days
Duration
English
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Overview
This is a five day virtual or classroom event facilitated by one of Snap Tech’s most experienced trainers. You’ll find a ready-to-learn atmosphere where you’ll receive expert instruction and guidance, interact with your peers, and gain the real-world skills that matter.
Guy Eastoe is the Managing Director of Snap Tech and considered to be one of the country’s leading PPM, Agile, Change and Benefits Realization Consultant/Trainers.
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The Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) certification aims to address the needs of those working in a project-focused environment who want to be Agile. Based on the proven fundamentals of the most mature of the Agile options, DSDM Atern, the certification provides the ability to deliver Agile Projects in organizations requiring sensible governance and visibility from their Project Management, while at the same time enabling the benefits, customer collaborative and iterative development provided by Agile.
Accredited by APMG and the AGILE Business Consortium
AGILE Project Management is an iterative approach to planning and guiding project and development increments.
An Agile project is completed in small sections known as timeboxes.
It applies an incremental and an Iterative development cycle.
Timeboxes are always on time, and quality is integrated into the development cycle.
Reviews and retrospectives allow for frequent assessments of what has been done and involve critique by the project team.
Lessons are learnt from team critiques and promote continuous Improvement.
Agile PM’s major benefits stem from a greater focus on working with business stakeholders and delivery on time. The Agile Project Management training offers an internationally recognised certification that will benefit the individual in modern day career development.
Completing this course will help you:
- Run successful agile projects
- Apply the agile manifesto to the way you run projects
- Know the different management styles needed for successful agile projects (compared to "traditional" waterfall projects)
- Practice the agile principles
- Run Stand Ups and timeboxed Sprints
- Do agile planning and prioritize your requirements
- Do burn down charts and calculate team velocity
- Understand the concepts, benefits and risks of Agile development
- Understand the philosophy, approach and principles of Agile project management, using DSDM Atern
- Understand the DSDM Atern lifecycle and products
- Set up appropriate project teams
- Plan and run a facilitated workshop
- Model and prototype aspects of the solution
- Elicit, analyse, prioritise and manage requirements
- Create a time boxed plan for a project
- Understand the importance of negotiation and collaboration
- Use their skills to set up and manage an Agile project
Who is the course for?
Amongst others, this event is a MUST for anyone matching any of the following criteria:
- Any Project Manager willing to explore or embrace the Agile mindset.
- Any mid-level or senior manager wondering how to embrace Agile while maintaining reasonable business governance. Let me say this: You will find many “Eureka” moments while going through the event materials.
- Any Agile Practitioner wondering why their Agile processes are failing to scale up, or down.
- Any Technical or Business Architect trying to find out how they can maintain adequate technical or business governance in an Agile environment.
Learning Path
- What is Agile? Major agile approaches
- Benefits of Agile project management
- When to use Agile project management
- Risks and benefits of Agile
- Preparing for successful Agile projects
- Agile project management principles
- The Agile Project Management Process
- Agile project management framework
- Configuring the Agile Project Lifecycle
- Products and Deliverables
- Management, business and solution focus
- Agile project roles and responsibilities
- Agile project team empowerment
- Agile project team structure
- Agile Project Management Techniques
- Facilitated Workshops
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Iterative Development
- Time boxing
- Modelling
- Agile requirements
- Agile planning
- Agile risk management
- Testing, quality and maintainability
- Agile estimating and measurement
- Agile Configuration Management
The event is delivered by an experienced and accredited trainer who will facilitate interactive group work and encourage the learning experience through the use of multiple training mediums, group work and exercises.
FOUNDATION
The Foundation qualification is aiming to measure whether the candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of the Agile Project Management guidance to be able to recognise and distinguish between the key elements of the approach. The Foundation qualification is also a pre-requisite for the Practitioner qualification.
Exam Format (Closed Book)
- Multiple choice
- 50 questions per paper
- 25 out of 50 marks required to pass
- 40 minutes duration
PRACTITIONER
The Practitioner qualification tests whether the candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of the Agile Project Management guidance to apply and tailor it to a given scenario. The certification shows that the candidate can demonstrate the competence to begin working as an Agile Project Manager.
- Objective testing
- 4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question
- 80 marks in total, 40 marks (50%) required to pass
- 150 minutes duration
- Open book (restricted to the manual only) examination
- The AgilePM Certification is an Internationally Recognized Qualification.