AgilePM Foundation & Practitioner Online

Description

The Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) certification aims to address the needs of those working in a project-focused environment who want to be Agile. It provides organisations with a leaner, more structured approach to project management enabling them to respond far more quickly to change and provides a way to implement high-priority initiatives

This course is available for instructor-led training. To find out more, click here.

Audience Profile

• New and experienced project staff
• People who may go on to Practitioner training
• Consultants/contract staff operating in an AgilePM® environment
• Project Managers considering a career in an AgilePM® environment
• Anybody wishing to improve employment prospects in an AgilePM® environment

Course Benefits

• 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 processes 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.
• Develop a more advanced, applied level of knowledge to gain an understanding of agile and the ability to apply relevant project management methods, leading to successful agile projects.
• Clarify different management styles needed for successful agile projects compared to traditional projects and be able to tailor these to the situation.
• Actively promote trust and close co-operation between the business and developers and gives the business ongoing visibility into what is happening.
• Combine knowledge of more traditional management methodologies with agile to better adapt to a changing business environment.
• Improve time-to-market and project success rates while simultaneously accelerating results by encouraging stakeholder involvement, feedback and effective controls.

What’s Included

• 12 Month licence period
• Exam

Exam Format 

Foundation:

• Multiple choice format
• 50 questions per paper
• 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
• 40 minutes duration
• Closed-book.

Exam Format 

Practitioner:

• Objective testing
• 4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question
• 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
• Two and a half hours duration
• Open book examination (restricted to the AgilePM® handbook only)