Course : PRINCE2® Agile Practitioner: Certification

PRINCE2® Agile Practitioner: Certification

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PRINCE2 Agile® is a complete agile management solution. It combines the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2®. In this course you’ll learn why and how to combine PRINCE2® and agile, before taking the official PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner exam.

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Practical course in person or remote class

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Price : 2430 € E.T.

3d - 21h00

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Teaching objectives

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:

Understand the basic concepts of the most common agile methods
Understand the purpose and context for combining PRINCE2® and agile
Apply and evaluate project focus areas in an agile context
Adapt PRINCE2® principles, themes, processes and product management to a project in an agile context
Prepare for and take the PRINCE2® Agile® Practitioner exam

Intended audience

Certified PRINCE2® Practitioners who lead or manage projects in environments that use agile development methods.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of agile or knowledge equivalent to that provided by the MAG course (code MAG). Present the PRINCE2® Foundation and PRINCE2® Practitioner certificates. Good English.

Course schedule

Introduction

What is PRINCE2 Agile®?
Agile between project mode and operational activities.
Definition of agile.
Agile methods: Agile Manifesto, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, SAFe, DSDM/Agile PM, DevOps, Crystal.
PRINCE2®: principles, themes and processes.

Exercise

Evaluate the five PRINCE2 Agile® recommended behaviors by importance.

Basic concepts of agile project management

Iterative and incremental development.
Scrum: roles, artifacts, events.
Planning: “timeboxing”. Deliverable-oriented planning.
Estimating: point scoring, Fibonacci sequence, “T-shirt”.
Progress: burn-down and burn-up graphs.
Kanban: Kanban Board, Cumulative Flow Diagram
Lean start-up: fail fast, Minimum viable product (MVP).

Storyboarding workshops

Questions on agile management concepts.

Management principles, themes, processes and products

Principles of PRINCE2® and agility.
Performance aspects: variables, constants and priority management.
Processes: business case, complexity assessment ("cynefin"). Frequent deliveries. Contracts. Retrospective.
Management products: flexibility, formality.
Managing requirements: user story. Priority management (MoSCoW).
Quality management: DoD (Definition Of Done). DoR (Definition Of Ready). Quality review.
Testing strategy: Test Driven Development, Business Driven Development.

Exercise

Writing user stories and identifying priorities with MoSCoW.

Organization

Team structure and characteristics.
Adapting the role of the project manager and the leader.
Communication: workshop, daily stand-up, visual management, customer feedback.

Exercise

Assign roles according to the skills and needs of a project.

Transition

Agilometer and agile risk assessment.
Management of the team's agile attitude.
Advice to the agile project manager.
Agile project assessment.

Exercise

Evaluate a project according to the six aspects of the "Agilometer".

Exam

Review of knowledge and questions and answers.
Preparing for and taking the certification exam in English.

Exam

PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner certification.

Certification

A] For an in-person course, the certification exam is held on the final afternoon. The official book "PRINCE2 Agile®" (ISBN: 9780113314676) is provided in hard copy for the exam. B] For a remote learning course, a voucher is provided to take the exam online at some point after the session. The official PDF e-book is provided. It is recommend that you have a PC for the exam and another device (smartphone, tablet, laptop) to read the official PDF e-book (Adobe Digital Editions installed). You can print out the official e-book for the sake of convenience. The PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner exam is a 2.5 hour exam in English: Up to 50 multiple-choice questions each worth 1 point. Passing grade: 60%, or 30/50.

Remote certifications

See the certifier’s official documentation for the list of prerequisites for completing the online certification exam.

Practical details

Exam

Upon successful completion of the PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner certification, participants will earn 21 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Teaching methods;

Intensive training for the exam. Approximately two hours of extra reading/work are required outside of class time for optimal preparation.

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