APMG AgilePM® Achieving Foundation & Practitioner Certification
COURSE TYPE
Intermediate
Course Number
3633
Duration
5 Days
PDF Add to WishList
Prepare to achieve your AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner certifications with this highly-successful training course.
As a certified AgilePM Practitioner, you will possess a deep knowledge of the Agile project management methodology, and demonstrate skills for developing solutions incrementally, enabling teams to handle changing requirements effectively, improving team collaboration, and empowering individuals.
The course has been designed to run over 5 days (rather then the more typical 4 days) because the more relaxed pace provides significant advantages for attendees:
- Greater opportunity to discuss and explore the ideas and techniques behind the AgilePM methodology
- The Practitioner exam can be taken in the morning of the final day - leading to improved pass marks compared to exams taken during afternoons (which would be necessary if the course were run over just 4 days)
You Will Learn How To
- Prepare for the AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner certification exams
- Establish and lead a successful Agile project with the methodology developed by the DSDM Consortium
- Review practical and repeatable practices for project managers in an Agile environment
- Apply Agile techniques, such as modeling, prioritizing, timeboxing, user stories, and estimating
- Manage, define, and deliver a solution acceptable to the business
Important Course Information
Requirements:
- Experience at the level of:
- Course 918, Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean & XP, or
- Course 1814, Certified Scrum Product Owner®
- If new to project management, experience at the level of:
- Course 296, Project Management: Skills for Success, or
- Course 340, Project Management for Software Development
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
Exclusive Private Team Training Course
Enhance your team's effectiveness and boost productivity with this course, delivered privately to your organization or to any preferred location, including options for hybrid or all-virtual delivery via AnyWare.
This training course could be customized, and combined with other courses, to meet the specific needs of your team's training.
Attendee Benefits
Enhance Your Credentials with Professional Certification
Learning Tree's comprehensive training and exam preparation guarantees that you will gain the knowledge and confidence to achieve professional certification and advance your career.
Earn 29 Credits from NASBA
This course qualifies for 29 CPE credits from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy CPE program. NOTE: Only live, in-class attendance qualifies for NASBA CPEs. Read more ...
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