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Agile Project Management Training Courses (AgilePM® )

The Agile training courses have been designed to help you successfully pass the Agile Project Management Foundation and Practitioner exams. The courses includes both exams which are fully accredited by APMG International.   

What is an Agile project?

Agile management or agile process management refers to a method that’s used to manage the design and build activities of engineering, information technology, and various business areas that seek to offer a new product or service development which is flexible and can be used in an interactive manner.

What is the meaning of Agile project management?

Agile project management is an approach that’s used when managing a creative project process, this is where team members accept and except that changes will be made along the way. The team will develop successful iterations of a product and then use the resulting observations to improve the results and create a more successful product which meets the aim of the project. 

Pre-Course Reading

There are some pre-course work and a little reading that we recommend to be done before the course begins. This will ensure you have the best possible start to your course.

Prerequisites

This course is open to everyone and there are no prerequisites.

Who Should Attend the Agile certification?

This course is recommended for anybody interested in project management, including managers and those who work as part of a project team.

Agile Training Structure

This course is in two parts: Foundation and Practitioner.

• The Foundation part lasts three days and includes a one-hour multiple choice examination on the afternoon of the third day.
• The Practitioner part is a one day workshop including a two-hour examination.

Agile Course Content

The course covers the following topics:

• The basics of Agile Project Management.
• Roles and Responsibilities.
• Preparing for an Agile project.
• The factors that lead to success.
• How to manage an Agile project.
• Agile lifecycles.
• Processes and Products.
• Communication in an Agile project.
• Iterative development.
• Prioritisation and Timeboxing.
• Maintaining control in an Agile project.
• Managing risk.
• Requirements and Estimating.
• Agile Planning.
• Building in quality.

Agile Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Exam

Agile Foundation exam:

• Multiple choice format.
• 60 questions.
• Passmark is 50% or 30 out of 60.
• 60 minutes duration.
• Closed-book.

Agile Practitioner exam:

• Objective testing, a type of multiple choice.
• 4 questions per paper, 20 marks available per question.
• Passmark is 50% or 40 out of 80.
• Two-and-a-half hours duration.
• Open-book examination.

What is an Agile Practitioner?

An Agile Certified Practitioner is for anyone in the project management industry whose organisation currently uses or is going to use agile practices. With an Agile Practitioner certification, the holder will be able to implement principles into project management on a daily basis.    

Why choose The Knowledge Academy?

• We provide you with the official Agile Project Management Handbook.
• We give you The Knowledge Academy courseware folder, which has all presentation slides used during training and practice papers, ensuring you are prepared for the exam.
• We make the learning experience enjoyable.
• We are trusted by globally leading brands such as JP Morgan, HSBC and Sony as a learning partner of choice.
• We provide pre- and post-course support so you never feel alone.
• Our courses are hands-on, using real world examples.
• As a market leader, we have an extremely high global pass rate.
• Over 90% of our delegates come back to us for further training.
• We have the best instructors in the industry which is reflected in our position as the market leader for professional qualifications.
• We provide value for money and trained over 25,000 delegates last year.
• We have some of the most luxurious course venues worldwide.

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What is Agile Project Management?

Agile Project Management is a method of project management designed to allow projects to be flexible and adaptive throughout their development. By combining traditional project management techniques with the ideas behind Agile, which is traditionally a method of software development, Agile Project Management provides an approach which allows managers to embrace change and ensures that the project delivered will be exactly what the customers want. Agile Project Management is provided by the global accreditation provider APMG.

What is Agile Software Development?

Agile software development is a set of methods and practices that are used to create effective solutions through collaboration. Solutions for Agile come from self-organizing and cross-functional teams that utilise the appropriate practices for their context.

What is Agile in IT?

Agile is an approach for software delivery that builds software from the original creation all the way to the end of the project. With Agile you will build the software in gradual stages instead of all at once, this will help to deliver a more effective software as more changes can be made throughout the process.

Case Study

Mastek, a multinational IT services company based in India, used Agile Project Management to improvement its approach to product development.

Although they are based in India, Mastek have off-shored some parts of their business. Structuring the business in this way means it is essential that products are delivered on time and according to customer requirements. To do this, the Agile methodology was used to work directly with the customer or business at each stage. This has strengthened Mastek’s customer relationships, as their clients are actively involved in developing the products and able to decide if alterations are needed. Using Agile also means Mastek and their clients understand each other better; how they work, what pressures they are under and what challenges may occur.

Overall, since implementing Agile Project Management, Mastek have synchronized their onshore and offshore teams to work as extensions of each other, managed to reduce the governance required, and increased communication between these teams by using social media and video conferencing.

* Dependant on experience and industry Source: payscale.com and itjobswatch.co.uk