Training Topic: Project Management
Training Framework/Standard: AgilePM®
- Duration 2 Days
- Virtual or Classroom
The APMG accredited Agile Project Management Practitioner course empowers, encourages and equips you with an in-depth knowledge of not just the certification, but also how to apply and implement these principles into the life of a project manager on a daily basis.
Session 1: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Roles and Responsibilities the PM View
- Project Manager Role – the full detail
- Project Manager and Business Analyst Relationship
- Project Manager and Business Sponsor Relationship
- Project Manager and Team Leader Relationship
- Project Manager and Business Visionary Relationship
- Project Manager and SDT Relationship
- Project Manager and Technical Coordinator Relationship
- Roles and Responsibilities AgilePM Top Tips
Session 2: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Agile Project Management – through the lifecycle
- The DSDM Process
- Foundations and the Agile PM
- Configuring the Process
- Evolutionary Development and the Agile PM
- Pre-Project and the Agile PM
- Deployment and the Agile PM
- Feasibility and the Agile PM
- Post-Project and the Agile PM
Session 3: Agile PM Digging Deeper: The Effective Use of the Products
- Terms of Reference – Milestone
- Feasibility Assessment – Milestone
- Business Case – Evolutionary
- Foundation Summary – Milestone
- Prioritised Requirements List (PRL) – Evolutionary
- Evolving Solution – Evolutionary
- Delivery Plan – Evolutionary
- Timebox Plan – Evolutionary
- Management Approach Definition (MAD) – Evolutionary
- Timebox Review Record – Milestone
- Solution Architecture Definition (SAD) – Evolutionary
- Project Review Record – Milestone
- Development Approach Definition (DAD) – Evolutionary
- Benefits Assessment – Milestone
Session 4: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Deliver on time – Combining MoSCoW Prioritisation and Timeboxing
- MoSCoW – A Reminder
- Free format Timebox
- MoSCoW Relating to a Specific Timeframe
- Timeboxing – Agile PM Top Tips
- Making MoSCoW Work
- Timeboxing – Which style?
- Prioritisation – Who Decides?
- MoSCoW – Integral Part of Planning Process
- Timeboxes – How Long?
- The Daily Stand-up and the AgilePM
- Timeboxing – Which style?
- Empowered Teams and Change in Timeboxes
- A DSDM Structured Timebox
Session 5: Agile PM Digging Deeper: People, Teams and Interactions
- People, Teams and Interactions
- Collaboration
- Planning Effective Communication
- Team Collaboration
- Distributed Team Communication
- People, Teams, Interactions – Agile PM Top Tips
Session 6: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Requirements and User Stories
- Requirements
- Confirmation – User Story Card – The Back
- User Stories
- Well-Constructed User Stories
- Example User Story Card – The Front
- Requirements through the DSDM Lifecycle
Session 7: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Estimating – How and When
- Estimating
- Styles of Estimating – Bottom Up
- Estimating – Coping With Uncertainty
- Estimating Through The Lifecycle
- Styles of Estimating – Top Down
- Estimating – Agile PM Top Tips
Session 8: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Project Planning through the Lifecycle
- Planning in a DSDM Project
- Planning – Evolutionary Development
- Planning Activity Phase by Phase
- Further Planning
- Planning – Early Phases
- Planning – Agile PM Top Tips
- Planning – Early Phases – Foundations
Session 9: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Quality – Never Compromise Quality
- Using DSDM Helps “Never Compromise Quality”
- Quality Across The LifecycleNever Compromise Quality
- DSDM as a Quality Process
- Process Quality to Provide Predictability
- Quality – Agile PM Top Tips
Session 10: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Risk Management
- Managing Risk
- Risk – Agile PM Top Tips
Session 11: Agile PM Digging Deeper: Tailoring the approach
- Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ)
- Tailoring – Agile PM Top Tips
- Tailoring DSDM Using PAQ
The course is aimed at Project Managers and others involved in Project Management who want to understand how to apply agile approaches within an overall project management lifecycle framework.
This course prepares students to write the APMG’s and Exam EP-APMP: Agile Practitioner exam. Exam Format is 2½ hours, multiple choice questions, 4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question, 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50% & an open book (restricted to the official manual only) examination. The delivery method of the exam is Proctor-Led & Computer-Based.
Pre-requisites accepted to be eligible to take the Practitioner examination include:
- AgilePM Foundation Certificate (either 2010 or 2014 version), or
- DSDM Atern Foundation Certificate, or
- DSDM Advanced Practitioner Certificate
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