This PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner course prepares candidate for the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification. It teaches how to effectively understand the flexibility and responsiveness of Agile with the effective governance and control of PRINCE2.
Course Scopes
This inclusive project management training course covers:
- The basic concepts of common agile ways of working
- The purpose and context for combining PRINCE2 and agile way of working
- How to apply and evaluate key areas to a project in an agile context
- How to fix and adapt the 6 aspects of a project in an agile context
- How to tailor PRINCE2 principles, themes, processes and management products to a project in an agile way
Course Objectives
- Prepare for the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner exam
- Configure and tune PRINCE2 to utilize Agile frameworks
- Implement PRINCE2 for its project direction and management
- Apply an Agile framework for product delivery
- Combine management control with delivery flexibility
Course Outline
Agile and Common Agile Methodologies
- Project or BAU
- Difference Between Project Work and BAU Work
- Agile and Common Agile Methodologies
- Agile Manifesto
- Waterfall or Iterative and Incremental
- Agile Basics
- Beyond a Basic View
- Agile Frameworks
- Agile Behaviours, Concepts, and Techniques
- Scrum
- Scrum – What is It?
- Scrum Theory
- Scrum Team
- Scrum Events
- Scrum Artefacts
- 6 General Practices of the Kanban Methods
- Kanban – Further Guidance
- Kanban Hints
- Lean Start-Ups
PRINCE2® Agile
- PRINCE2® Agile: Blending PRINCE2® and Agile Together
- What does PRINCE2® Agile Comprise of?
- Guidance Points
- PRINCE2® Journey with Agile
- Recap of PRINCE2®
- Hexagon (1)
- Hexagon (2)
- What to Fix and What to Flex
- Tolerance guidance
- 5 Targets
- Be on Time and Hit Deadlines
- Protect the Level of Quality
- Embrace Change
- Keep Teams Stable
- Accept that the Customer Doesn’t Need Everything
- Appropriate Balance
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
Tailoring PRINCE2® Processes
- Agile and the PRINCE2® Processes
- Directing a Project
- What to do?
- How Might it Look?
- Agile Contracts
- Starting up a Project and Initiating a Project
- SU and IP: What to Do?
- Cynefin
- Cynefin Framework
- Cynefin Domain Focus
- SU and IP: How Might it Look?
- Controlling a Stage
- What to Do?
- How Might it Look?
- Focus Area
- Frequent Releases: Considerations
- Managing Product Delivery
- What May You Find?
- What to Do?
- How Might it Look?
- Managing a Stage Boundary
- What May You Find?
- What to Do?
- How Might it Look?
- Retrospectives
- Closing a Project
- What May You Find?
- What to Do?
- How Might it Look?
Tailoring the PRINCE2® Themes
- Agile and the PRINCE2® Themes
- Business Case
- General View of Agile
- Guidance
- Defining Value
- Requirements and User Stories
- User Stories
- Requirements Prioritisation
- MoSCoW and Ordering
- Using Prioritisation
- Organisation
- General View of Agile
- Guidance
- Adjustments
- linking to the Delivery Team
- Delivery Team
- Project Structures
- Servant Leadership
- Incorporating a Wider Customer View
- Working Agreements
- Change
- General View of Agile
- Guidance
- Feedback Loop
- Risk
- Plans
- General View
- Guidance
- Estimation
- Progress
- General View
- Guidance
- Burn Charts
- Examples
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs)
- Information Radiators
- Quality
- General View of Agile
- Guidance
- How to Test?
- Quality in Relation to Scope
- PRINCE2® Management Products and Roles
- Tailoring of the PRINCE2® Products
- Work Packages
Principles and Behaviours
- Principles – Guidance
- Behaviours
- Agilometer
- Rich Communication
- Workshops
Prerequisites
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Project Management Professional® (PMP)
- Certified Associate in Project Management® (CAPM)
- IMPA Levels A, B, C, and D® (Certified Projects Director)
Overview
This course equips with the knowledge for the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification with the relevant skill and knowledge for an environment focused on management and delivery.
Our PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner course follows the Agile Foundation course and is the final step in gaining your full PRINCE2 Agile certification. You will have to implement the theory and knowledge you acquired in the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation course and learn how to apply these approaches and techniques to your own projects.
