APMG AgilePM® Achieving Foundation & Practitioner Certification
COURSE TYPE
Practitioner
Course Number
3633
Duration
5 Days
About This Course: This course prepares you for the APMG-International Agile Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Exams which are then offered during the course. Required pre-course reading includes the Learning Tree Pre-Course Study Guide and the Agile Project Management Handbook Version 2. Fifteen hours of pre-course preparation are required and evening study will be required during the course.
You Will Learn How To
- Prepare for and take the APMG-International Agile Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Exams
- Establish and lead a successful Agile project with DSDM
- Apply Agile techniques such as modeling, prioritizing, timeboxing, user stories and estimating
- Manage, define and deliver a solution acceptable to the business
Course Outline
- Introduction to Agile Project Management
Establishing Agile Fundamentals
- Exploring the relationship between Agile, AgilePF and DSDM
- Contrasting traditional waterfall project management approaches with DSDM
- Integrating DSDM with best practice methods
- Outlining the eight principles that guide DSDM
Preparing for an Agile project
- Analyzing the Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ)
- Accepting the DSDM philosophy
- Identifying a successful team style
- Building the Foundations for an Agile Project
Completing pre-project activities
- Ensuring that the right projects are started and set up correctly
- Identifying important members of the team
- Planning the Feasibility Phase
Assessing project feasibility
- Confirming that a solution exists
- Creating an outline business case
- Defining the project organization structure
- Planning the Foundation Phase
Setting firm foundations for an Agile project
- Integrating business, solution and management perspectives
- Establishing a Prioritized Requirements List (PRL)
- Defining project and solution standards
- Agreeing on roles and responsibilities
- Extending the outline business case
- Baselining a schedule of project activities
- Evolving an Accurate Solution
Investigating and designing options
- Iteratively exploring detailed requirements and confirming viability
- Iteratively modelling solutions
- Refining the evolving solution to meet prioritized business needs
- Expanding and refining products
Incorporating DSDM project management techniques
- Timeboxing development cycles
- Controlling progress throughout the project
- Delivering a quality product to meet requirements
- Managing project risk
- Deploying Solutions
Releasing to the business
- Achieving acceptance from stakeholders
- Planning the release
- Transferring ownership to the business environment
- Migrating products into live use
- Training end users and completing documentation
Closing the project
- Confirming that the benefits can still be delivered
- Formally closing the project
- Evaluating the project to support continuous improvement
Conducting post-project activities
- Assessing whether the project benefits have been achieved
- Comparing the results of the projects to the original business case
- Foundation and Practitioner Exams
Preparing for the exams
- Gaining insight into the exam process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Practicing with sample test questions
Foundation Exam (Day 2)
- Completing the necessary APMG paperwork
- Taking the foundation exam
Practitioner Exam (Day 5)
- Taking the practitioner exam
Course Schedule
Attend this live, instructor-led course In-Class or Online via AnyWare.
Hassle-Free Enrollment: No advance payment required.
Tuition due 30 days after your course.
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Tuition
Standard
$3190
Government
$2833
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Training Hours
Day 1 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Day 2 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Foundation Exam*:
Day 2, 3:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Day 3 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Day 4 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Day 5 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Practitioner Exam*:
Day 5, 10:40 a.m. - 1:15 p.m
*All AnyWare remote attendees will need to contact our Learning Tree Customer Service department prior to their course start date in order to make arrangements for taking the necessary exam.
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Earn 21 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 21 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 19 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 2 PDUs