Audience: Who is the course for?
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Business Analysts
- Project Board and Project Steering Representatives
- Project Management Office Personnel
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Managers
- Those involved in the management of Agile projects and programmes
Course duration:
This is a three day course. The exam is taken on the third day.
Benefits to the individual:
- Recognised qualification
- Can be used in conjunction with other corporate processes such as PRINCE2 and ITIL
- An easily replicated approach to planning, resourcing and managing a successful project
Benefits to the business:
- A flexible and responsive approach ensures that the final solution meets business and customer requirements
- Project discipline means deadlines are met, business value targets are achieved and the project budget is tightly controlled
- Reduced risk of long term project failure
- Greater customer satisfaction
Prerequisites:
There are no pre-requisites for this course. Some evening study during the course will be necessary in order to pass the exam.
Course outline:
The objectives of this course are to enable delegates to:
- Understand the concepts, benefits and risks of Agile development
- Understand the philosophy, approach and principles of Agile project management, using DSDM Atern
- Understand the DSDM Atern lifecycle and products
- Set up appropriate project teams
- Plan and run a facilitated workshop
- Model and prototype aspects of the solution
- Elicit, analyse, prioritise and manage requirements
- Create a time-boxed plan for a project
- Understand the importance of negotiation and collaboration
- Use their skills to set up and manage an Agile project
Over the three day course, the following topics are covered:
Agile Project Management Fundamentals
- What is Agile? Major agile approaches
- Benefits of Agile project management
- When to use Agile project management
- Risks and benefits of Agile
- Preparing for successful Agile projects
- Agile project management principles
The Agile Project Management Process
- Agile project management framework
- Configuring the Agile Project Lifecycle
Products and Deliverables
- Management, business and solution focus
Agile Project Teams
- Agile project roles and responsibilities
- Agile project team empowerment
- Agile project team structure
Agile Project Management Techniques
- Facilitated Workshops
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Iterative Development
- Time-boxing
- Modelling
Project Management and Control
- Agile requirements
- Agile planning
- Agile risk management
- Testing, quality and maintainability
- Agile estimating and measurement
- Agile configuration management
Exam details:
The one hour exam consists of 60 multiple choice questions and is taken on the third day of the course. The pass mark is 30/60 or 50%.
Agile Foundation - course description