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AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner
OVERVIEW
Our AgilePM training and certification is based on the AgilePM Handbook, published by the Agile Business Consortium. The Handbook offers a practical and repeatable methodology that achieves an ideal balance between the standards, rigour and visibility required for good project management, and the fast-pace, change and empowerment provided by Agile.
Accredited training and certification will help individuals to:
- Apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of AgilePM in a project situation
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
- Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritisation, iterative development and timeboxing
- Understand and assign roles and responsibilities within an Agile project
- Understand the mechanisms for governance and control of an Agile project
- Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
- Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements.
- How to apply a variety of agile practices to a project, for example, workshops, the MoSCoW technique to define project priorities, iterative development and modelling.
- How to test, estimate and evaluate benefit delivery in an Agile project.
- Facilitation and support mechanisms within an Agile project.
- The agile approach to manage and prioritize requirements.
COURSE BENEFITS
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Benefits include:
- The underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile.
- The lifecycle of an Agile project, including alternative configurations.
- The products produced during an Agile project and their purpose.
- The techniques used and their benefits and limitations.
- The roles and responsibilities within an Agile project.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
- Deliver change faster, at a lower cost and with lower risk by continually validating project milestones against business objectives.
- Complements and works with existing corporate and project methodologies such as PRINCE2®, quality and audit processes which improves rigour and visibility around project management, leading to a proven track record of successful delivery in a corporate environment.
- Simply adopt a tried and tested approach rather than developing and integrating a company-specific agile management process.
- Achieve better communication and control over projects and adapt project plans without disrupting the project budget, timescale and scope.
- Develop professionalism in employees and include agile certification in employee professional development schemes.
PRACTITIONER RE-REGISTRATION COURSE AND EXAM
The purpose of the Practitioner level is to re-confirm your AgilePM management practitioner abilities after, at least, three years’ experience in agile project management activities. You would have passed the Practitioner exam at least three years prior before you can take this recertification exam. This course is for AgilePM Practitioner certified individuals who wish to retain their Registered Practitioner status and AgilePM accredited trainers, among others.
- Exam Format:
- Exam Requirement: Practitioner Exam Pass
- Multiple choice (objective) testing
- 4 question areas with 20 question items per question area - all question items will be worth 1 mark, making the total number of marks available per paper 80
- 40 marks required (out of 80 available) to pass - 50%
- 2 hours 30 minutes duration
- Open book exam – AgilePM Handbook only allowed
We offer the following learning alternatives:
- 1-day weekly and weekend classroom courses
- 1-day virtual tutor-led weekly and weekend courses
- 1-day corporate on-site courses
- 365-day access to our self-paced online e-learning courses
- As part of the 4-day Foundation and Practitioner tutor-led virtual and classroom weekday and 4-day weekend courses
COURSE FEE INCLUDES
- Official Course Manual
- Foundation Exam retake Guarantee
- Practitioner Exam Retake Guarantee
- Accredited Course Materials
- Accredited trainer with a minimum of ten years industry experience for virtual and classroom courses
- 365 days access to our self-paced e-learning online Foundation and Practitioner courses
- 365 days exam vouchers for our self-paced online, virtual and classroom courses
VAT will be added at the standard rate to the course fee.
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