AgilePM ® Foundation & Practitioner - eLearning (exam included)

AgilePM® Foundation & Practitioner - eLearning (exam included)

Join the Agile Revolution!

Agile project management takes the ideas from Agile software development and applies them to project management. Agile methodologies generally promote a project management process that encourages stakeholder involvement, feedback, objective metrics and effective controls.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Why is AgilePM® so popular?

Agile project management qualifications are rising fast! Whilst agile development methods such as Scrum dominate the software industry, they are gaining popularity in other industries too.

As more businesses adopt agile, they are seeking dedicated agile project management methods to help them. Individuals with agile project management certifications can therefore command a premium in the jobs market.

There are 6 key factors why AgilePM® is proving to be popular.

1. It provides governance and agility.Based upon the Agile Project Framework (APF) which was established over 20 years ago, AgilePM® blends both corporate governance aspects with key agile concepts and is specifically aimed at project managers. The authors of the APF were the DSDM, one of the founding signatories to the agile manifesto.
2. Never compromise quality.Never compromising quality is an underlying principle of AgilePM®. This is helped by agreeing high-level acceptance criteria throughout the full project lifecycle.
3. Risk management.A starting point in AgilePM® for understanding risks is the Project Approach Questionnaire. This enables a shared understanding of project risks and how to mitigate them.
4. Goes beyond product development approaches.Whereas common agile methods such as Scrum offer product development approaches, they do not address project management. AgilePM® goes further than Scrum by offering an agile project management approach.
5. Clear roles and responsibilities.AgilePM® assigns clear roles and responsibilities to individuals from the business, user, technical and management areas so that effective stakeholder collaboration can be achieved.
6. Incorporates popular agile practices.Key agile practices such as MoSCoW, timeboxing and iterative development are incorporated into AgilePM® to support effective product development.

Changing requirements

Agile approaches recognize that users often don’t fully know their requirements when projects start and therefore, they will likely change during the project. Whilst changing requirements can often be problematic in more traditional project management approaches, agile approaches embrace changes in requirements.

On agile projects time and cost are normally the fixed elements but the requirements and scope of the project are variable. Agile therefore is better at delivering on time than more traditional project management approaches.

Agile approaches focus on incremental and iterative releases of products to users and customers, each iteration or incremental release giving the user yet more functionality. Agile can therefore deliver products early to users and this helps users better understand and refine their requirements after a period of use.

AgilePM® is the world’s leading certification in Agile Project Management. The qualification balances robust governance with a collaborative culture that inspires innovation and improves competitive advantage.

AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner eLearning Course

The APMG-International AgilePM® certification addresses the needs of those who work in planning contexts and who need to be agile. Agile management or agile project management is an interactive method for defining requisites and creating the corresponding output for projects, typically in the fields of engineering or information technology, which are characterised by a strong need for interaction and flexibility.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The objective of the Agile Project Management Foundation course is to discover and explore these components, principles and processes. The Foundation level is also required to be able to go on to the successive qualification levels.

The aim of the Agile Project Management Practitioner course is to ensure and confirm, with an exam pass, that a candidate is able to start and apply the method in many cases of real life projects.

What will you learn?

• You learn to apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile in a project situation
• To appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
• To produce and evaluate the content of Agile products produced during an Agile project in a given scenario
• To apply the following Agile techniques in a project situation: facilitated workshops, MoSCoW prioritisation, iterative development, modelling and timeboxing
• To identify the Agile techniques to be used for a given situation within a scenario
• To understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles within a given scenario t
• To understand the mechanisms for control of an Agile project that are specific to an Agile project
• To understand in outline how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
• To describe the Agile approach to managing requirements and identify action to rectify problems with requirements within an Agile project from a given scenario.

This AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner course will:

• Explain how to lay the foundations for successful Agile projects
• Explain how an Agile project is managed
• Clarify the different management styles needed for successful Agile projects (compared to “traditional” projects)
• Learn how to successfully apply AgilePM® to your projects

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Contents of AgilePM Foundation:

• What is agile? The choice of the most suitable approach;
• Agile Project Management ? The fundamentals;
• Roles and responsibilities;
• Preparing yourself for Agile Project Management;
• Agile Project Management;
• The processes and products of Agile Project Management;
• The communication;
• Prioritising and time-boxing;
• Agile control;
• Requisites, estimations;
• Agile planning.

Contents of AgilePM Practitioner:

• Participants who enroll an AgilePM Practitioner training course must have a thorough knowledge of the Foundation course topics.
• The Practitioner level provides customization and application of Agile Project Management within the context of simulated real-world cases.

eLearning package:

• 2x 4 months online access to accredited AgilePM Foundation & Practitioner eLearning (approx. 35 hours of study time)
• 30 lessons (13 hours of video recorded by an accredited teachers)
• Downloadable PDF documents with detailed content (slides, explanations) for each lesson
• Access to informative, downloadable learning resources and videos.
• Interactive quizzes and mock exam simulator to test knowledge ahead of the both exams
• Official AgilePM® Foundation examination (online exam)
• Official AgilePM® Practitioner examination (online exam)
• AgilePM Handbook v.2 paper based (e-book)

EXAM INFORMATION

AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner exams

Once you have completed the AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner online training course you can test your knowledge on the AgilePM® Foundation mock exam simulator and AgilePM® Practitioner sample exam papers. Once you are achieving over 60% you can put yourself in for the real AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner exams. The AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner exams can be taken online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at a time and date of your choice.

AgilePM Foundation exam

• Multiple choice format
• 50 questions per paper
• 25 marks required to pass
• (out of 50 available) – 50%
• 40 minutes duration
• Closed-book

AgilePM Practitioner exam

• Objective testing
• 4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question 40 marks required to
• pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
• Two and a half hours duration
• Open book examination (restricted to the AgilePM® handbook only)