The course covers the following key areas:
AgilePM fundamentals
- AgilePM philosophy and framework components
- Balancing time, cost, quality, and features in AgilePM projects
- Applying AgilePM’s eight principles in real-world scenarios
Individuals and interactions, collaboration, and communication
- Agile leadership styles and situational empowerment
- Shaping appropriate Agile teams and roles
- Ensuring effective collaboration and communication across teams
Risk management and project approach
- Tailoring AgilePM to mitigate risks
- Using the Project Approach Questionnaire to assess and manage project risks
- Distinguishing between VUCA-related and approach-related risks
Defining and estimating project work
- Defining work at each project lifecycle phase
- Estimating work based on project phase and the practice of 'last responsible moment'
- Applying MoSCoW prioritisation to ensure delivery of the Minimum Usable Subset
Planning and controlling the work of the project
- Agile planning concepts for different lifecycle phases
- Tracking progress and responding to change across sprints and tranches
- Tailoring Scrum for multi-team project planning and dependency management
- Ensuring regulatory compliance and financial governance in AgilePM projects
Exams
The Practitioner exam tests participants' ability to apply and analyse AgilePM principles and practices. The exam includes scenario-based questions that assess the participant's ability to:
- Understand AgilePM concepts and roles
- Apply AgilePM techniques to real-world scenarios
- Analyse the appropriateness of AgilePM methods for given project situations
- Each of the four questions contains 15 question lines, each of which attracts 1
mark, giving a total of 60 marks - The pass mark is 30 (50%)
