APMG Agile Project Management Foundation - AgilePM(R)

This two-day APMG accredited course provides participants with a basic grounding in the DSDM Agile Project Management framework. The courses includes the APMG Agile Project Management Foundation exam.

Presented by skilled lecturers with extensive experience in the practical application of Agile project management, the course includes examination coaching and practice using sample questions.

This course does not cover the Scrum Framework.

Delegates should set aside time to revise for the Foundation exam in the evening after the course lecture finishes. Revision includes studying the course handbook and working through sample exam questions.

Objectives:

• Set up an Agile project

• Identify appropriate people for Agile roles 

• Define increments and time boxes 
to keep a project on track
• Manage a Solution Development Team

• Communicate with business stakeholders in a project environment
• Use Agile techniques, including prioritisation of requirements 
to ensure on-time project delivery
• Identify risks to delivery of projects managed using the DSDM Agile approach

Course Outline:

• What is Agile? And why use DSDM?

• Philosophy, Principles, and Project Variables


• Preparing for Success

• Preparing for Agile Project Management

• The DSDM Process


• The People - DSDM Roles and Responsibilities

• The DSDM Products


• Key Practices - Prioritisation and Timeboxing


• Planning and Control Throughout the Lifecycle


• Other Practices - Iterative Development, Facilitated Workshops, Modeling and Prototyping


Agile Project Management Foundation Examination

All delegates will sit the APMG Agile Project Management Foundation examination (a multiple choice paper) in the late afternoon of the second day of the course.

Exam timing

The Foundation examination is taken at 15:00 during the afternoon on Day two and candidates may take 40 minutes to complete it

Full details of the examination can be found on the APMG website.

APMG-International Agile Project Management is a trademark of The APM Group Limited.

Related training courses

• QAAUSE - Agile User Stories and Estimating

• PPMAGP - APMG Agile Project Management Practitioner

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