APMG AgilePM® Achieving Foundation & Practitioner Certification
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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 Agile Business Consortium
- Review practical and repeatable practices for project managers in an Agile environment
- Apply Agile techniques, such as modelling, prioritising, timeboxing, user stories, and estimating
- Manage, define, and deliver a solution acceptable to the business
Important Course Information
Recommended Experience:
- Familiarity with project work, either as a project manager or as another role on a project - this course is not designed to teach people how to be a project manager, it is intended to provide an agile framework to those who already have some basic project experience
- Familiarity with agile product development (for example, Scrum) - this course builds on product development experience to encompass the entire agile project lifecycle, not just development aspects
Course Materials:
- This course is accredited by APMG.
Course Preparation:
- There are a few hours of pre-course reading required.
- On evenings 1, 3 and 4 there will be some sample exam questions set as homework. It is important to set aside some time to complete this extra work - candidates who are able to complete both the pre-reading and the homework achieve significantly better exam results.
Exam Information:
- The Foundation and Practitioner exams will be administered during class.
- Foundation exam: 40 minutes, 50 multiple-choice questions, passing score is 50%, closed book
- Practitioner exam: 2.5 hours, 4 objective questions (20 possible points per question), passing score is 50%, open book (AgilePM® Handbook)
Attendees who have successfully completed the exam are gifted 1 year membership with Agile Business Consortium. Individual Consortium membership offers the following benefits:
- Online webinars
- Member training days
- 20% discount on items in the Consortium's web-shop, including general events such as the Agile Business Conference
- Latest templates
Eligible candidates will automatically receive an email invitation from The Consortium to activate their membership.
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
- Analysing 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 organisation structure
- Planning the Foundation Phase
Setting firm foundations for an Agile project
- Integrating business, solution and management perspectives
- Establishing a Prioritised 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 prioritised 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
- Practising 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
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
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.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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Business & Strategic : 2 PDUs