PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation & Practitioner in USA, Columbus, OH
PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation & Practitioner combines agile concepts with the world’s most popular approach to project management. Developed in response to user demand, The PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certificate is designed to help professionals deliver agile projects by tailoring PRINCE2 management controls with a broad toolset of agile delivery techniques and frameworks. The PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification teaches you to blend structure, governance and control with agile methods, techniques and approaches.
What will you learn
- Learn best practices and techniques.
- Learn to be handle projects in Agile environment.
- Learn Agile approaches like lean, Kanban and scrum.
- Learn PRINCE2® principles, themes and processes.
- Learn new concepts like Agilometer and agile contracts.
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites to begin the PRINCE2® Agile Foundation. To attend PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner training, you require PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certification to be completed.
Who can do PRINCE2 Agile Certification Training?
- Project Manager
- Project Support
- Team Leaders
- Teams transitioning to Scrum
- Managers of Agile teams
- Members of Agile teams such as developers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners
Exam Format
The PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation exam details are as follows:
- Number of questions: 50
- Exam Mode: Online/Web-based closed book
- Duration: 60 mins
- Each question carries 1 mark
- Passing score: 55% or above (Minimum of 28 marks)
The PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner exam details are as follows:
- Number of questions: 50
- Exam Mode: Online/Web-based, open book (Digital materials will be provided by Peoplecert)
- Duration: 150 mins
- Each question carries 1 mark
- assing score: 60% or above (Minimum of 30 marks)
Understand Key Concepts Relating to Projects and PRINCE2
- Recall the PRINCE2 Principles
- Explain the Purpose of PRINCE2 Themes
- Explain the Purpose of PRINCE2 Processes
- Explain the Purpose of PRINCE2 Management Products
- Explain the Responsibilities of PRINCE2 Roles
Understand Key Concepts Relating to Projects and PRINCE2 Agile
- Explain how PRINCE2 Agile is used in a project context and explain the difference between projects and business as usual (BAU)
- Recall Agile Ways of Working Suitable for PRINCE2 Agile
- Describe Blending PRINCE2 and Agile
- Describe the Roles and Responsibilities in PRINCE2 Agile
Understand How PRINCE2 is Tailored and Applied in an Agile Context
- Explain How PRINCE2 Principles are Applied in Agile Context
- Explain the PRINCE2 Agile Behaviors
- Explain the PRINCE2 Agile Guidance for Each Theme
- Explain the PRINCE2 Agile Guidance for Each Process
- Explain the PRINCE2 Agile Guidance for Tailoring Management Products
- Explain what to fix and what to flex, including setting tolerances and the five targets.
Understand Agile Ways of Working, Key Terms, and Techniques
- Recall the Definition of Agile Terms
- Explain Key Agile Concepts and Techniques
Understand the Focus Areas in an Agile Context
- Explain the PRINCE2 Agile Focus Areas
Understand the basic concepts of common agile ways of working
- Differences between projects and BAU (Business as usual)
- Describe agile and its common approaches
- How and why agile approaches have developed and where they are used
- Differences between Agile and Waterfall
- Agile Manifesto
- Different levels of agile maturity and well-known agile frameworks
- Behaviours, concepts and techniques that characterize agile
- Define the PRINCE2 Agile view of ‘agile’
- Kanban, the Kanban method and its six general practices, including the use of Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs)
- Core concepts of Lean Start-up
- The use of workshops
- How to transition to agile
- Scrum theory, Scrum team, Scrum events, Scrum artifacts and Sprints
The purpose and context for combining PRINCE2® and Agile
- Complementary strengths of PRINCE2 and the agile way of working
- Benefit from using PRINCE2 Agile and in what contexts/situations
- Define the make-up of PRINCE2 Agile
- The eight ‘guidance points’
- How PRINCE2 controls and governance can enable agile in any environment
- Typical PRINCE2 ‘project journey’ in an Agile context
Apply and evaluate the focus areas to a project in an agile context
- The purpose and use of the Agilometer in a project
- The six sliders used on the Agilometer and how to improve them
- Requirements terminology, decomposition and prioritization, including MoSCoW and Ordering
- How requirements prioritization is used
- Rich communication focus area, its importance and its key techniques
- How to manage frequent releases and the benefits of ‘failing fast’
Fix and flex the six aspects of a project in an agile context
- How to use the ‘hexagon’ in relation to the six aspects of project performance
- The use of tolerances in terms of what to ‘fix’ and what to ‘flex’ in relation to the six aspects of project performance
- The five targets that underpin the use of the hexagon
- Why the ‘fix and flex’ approach is good for the customer
Tailor the PRINCE2 products in an agile context
- The five PRINCE2 Agile behaviours
- Incorporating Agile in all seven PRINCE2 processes and themes
- Organization roles of Scrum master and Product owner
- Adjust roles, including the use of specialist roles, and the options for team organization in a project
- Define the make-up of a typical delivery team
- Servant leadership, its use and importance
- How to define Working Agreements
- Quality setting techniques including ‘definition of done’ and the use of acceptance criteria
- Quality testing, quality checking and management techniques
- Planning and typical planning techniques
- Approaches to risk and how agile concepts mitigate typical risks
- Blending PRINCE2 with agile approaches controls, responds to, and minimizes the impact of change, including risk management and configuration management
- Empower self-organizing teams
- Feedback loops and their importance
- Progress monitoring techniques includes: ‘work in progress’ boards, burn charts, information radiators
- Agile techniques that apply to each PRINCE2 process including Cynefin
- Flex the ‘Direct a Project’ stage and the benefits of collaborative working
- ‘manage by exception’ with emphasis on empowerment, quantity of deliverables, rich information flows and value of deliverables
- Why PRINCE2 ‘stages’, timeboxes, Scrum of Scrums
- Output mechanisms when ‘Controlling a Stage’ and ‘Managing a Stage Boundary’
- Effective use of retrospectives
- Approaches to manage product delivery including Scrum and Kanban
- Define Work Packages, Product Descriptions, quality criteria and tolerances
- Guidance on behaviours, risk and the frequency of releases
- Manage stage boundaries and the similarities between a stage and a release
- Assess quantity, quality and benefits of stage deliverables
- How to effectively close a project, including evaluation of the use of agile
- Tailor PRINCE2 products, including Work Packages, Highlight Reports and Checkpoint Reports
- Agile techniques that apply to each PRINCE2 theme, requirements, defining value and user stories
- Guidance on the use of contracts
- PRINCE2 Agile delivery roles
- How to use the Health Check
- Fundamental values and principles of agile
- Tips for the PRINCE2 Agile project manager
What is PRINCE2 Agile®?
PRINCE2 Agile® is designed to help professionals tailor management controls when working in an agile environment, this certification will help you to understand PRINCE2 governance requirements, agile concepts and techniques and the interface between them.
How to you become a Prince2 Agile Certified professional?
You need formal PRINCE2 Agile training from a registered, accredited training organization like Learners Ink, and you must pass the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner exam.
What are prerequisites for Prince2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner certification?
To earn the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification, you need to pass the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation or PRINCE2 Foundation exam. There are no prerequisites for PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certification.
Will I be provided with study material for Prince2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner?
We provide soft copies of the entire study material to you right after the training session!
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