The Agile PM Practitioner and Foundation course is aimed at project managers. You may be adding to your knowledge of traditional project management approaches or you may be operating in an agile environment and need to be able to run projects in more complex and scalable situations.

This course covers the certifications launched in 2011 by APMG and the DSDM Consortium (now known as the Agile Business Consortium) to address the need to run projects in an agile way. 

The course is equally divided between the theory behind agile project management and interactive practical application of the techniques and skills required to work in an agile context. 

The course enables delegates to sit the examinations required to become certified in Agile Project Management (AgilePM) at both Foundation and Practitioner level.

The course is divided equally between the theory of agile project management and the practical experience of the techniques and disciplines involved. Key areas of the course include: 

Organisation

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Teams and Team Structures
• Empowerment

Preparation

• Project Constraints
• Success Factors
• Approach Questionnaire

The Lifecycle

• The Phases and Products
• Lifecycle Configuration

Techniques

• Communication
• MoSCoW
• Timeboxing
• Estimation and Measurement
• Quality and Maintainability
• Planning, Control and Risk
• Implementing Agile Project Management

The AgilePM Foundation exam is a 40-minute, multiple choice exam with 50 questions and a pass mark of 60%. The AgilePM Practitioner exam lasts 2 hours and is in the objective testing style (complex multiple choice). You are allowed to use your AgilePM Handbook during the Practitioner exam. The pass mark for the Practitioner exam is 50%.

Your course cost covers all course materials, which includes a print copy of the PowerPoint slides, exercises and case study; your copy of the Agile Project Management Handbook; all applicable exam fees; and your e-certificate upon successful completion of the course. There are absolutely no further costs to pay.

The course will give delegates a practical understanding of how to use agile behaviours and techniques at scale. Agile has grown rapidly in recent years and is now ‘mainstream’ but a lot of the success of agile is with small, co-located teams.
This course shows you how to be agile at a larger scale by wrapping agile project management disciplines around the delivery aspects of agile. This allows you to ‘be agile’ in more complex environments where stricter governance or compliance is needed such as it is with most large organisations today.
By becoming certified, this course will help you to stay current within your own organisation and in today’s fast moving marketplace.

Agile Project Management Practitioner and Foundation (a five-day course)

Course Content

Day 1: Scrum Essentials

• Introduction to Scrum and Agile
• How Scrum Works
  • The Scrum Team and its values
  • The Product Backlog
  • The Sprint and Sprint Planning
  • Working in a Sprint
  • The Sprint Review and Retrospective
  • Backlog Refinement and Estimating
• Empiricism and Lean Thinking
• Summary and Next Steps

Days 2 and 3: AgilePM Foundation (exam on day 3)

• Introduction and Key Concepts
• AgilePM Fundamentals
• Individuals and Interactions
• Collaboration and Communication
• Project Process and Lifecycle
• Defining and Organising Requirements
• Estimating and Prioritising the work
• Planning and Control
• Governance and Risk - putting agility before bureaucracy
• AgilePM Foundation exam

Days 4 and 5: AgilePM Practitioner (exam on day 5)

• AgilePM Practitioner day 1:
  • Practical exercises
• AgilePM Practitioner day 2:
  • Practitioner exam preparation
  • AgilePM Practitioner exam