Course Description
The PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner 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 certification will help you to:
- Understand PRINCE2 governance requirements clearly and comprehensively
- Gain a broad range of knowledge of agile concepts and techniques including: Scrum, Kanban, Lean Start-up and Cynefin
- Explore the interface between PRINCE2 and agile ways of working.
Exam Certification
The exam certification accredited by PeopleCert on behalf of Axelos is included in the cost of this course.
Exam format
- Objective testing
- 50 questions each worth one mark
- 30 marks or more required to pass out of 50 questions - 60% pass mark
- Two-and-a-half hours’ (150 minutes) duration, no additional reading time
- Open book exam (official PRINCE2 Agile guide only).
Course Materials
All delegates enrolled on virtual course bookings receive a hard copy of course materials sent to a preferred postal address.
Target Student
PRINCE2 Agile is suitable for anyone who delivers projects, large or small, in an agile context. It is a valuable training and certification scheme for anyone working within an agile project environment, whether they're a project manager, project support, or part of the wider project team.
Pre-requisites
In order to take the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner examination, a candidate must hold a current version of any of the below certifications:
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- PRINCE2 Agile Foundation
- Project Management Professional (PMP)®
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®
- IPMA Level A® (Certified Projects Director)
- IPMA Level B® (Certified Senior Project Manager)
- IPMA Level C® (Certified Project Manager)
- IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)
Course Objectives
The key objectives of this course are to:
- Understand the basic concepts of common agile ways of working
- Understand the purpose and context for combining PRINCE2® and the agile way of working
- Be able to apply and evaluate the focus areas to a project in an agile context
- Be able to fix and flex the six aspects of a project in an agile context
- Be able to tailor the PRINCE2 principles, themes, processes and management products to a project in an agile context
Course Outline
All the below topics are covered within the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation course in detail. This Practitioner course reviews and revises the subjects listed below and enables application of the content with regards to practicing exam style questions
- The early chapters
- The Hexagon & MoSCoW
- Principles
- PRINCE2 Process
- 5 Targets
- Agile Behaviours
- PRINCE2 Themes
- Business Case
- Organization and Agile Leadership
- Quality and Requirements
- Agile Planning
- Risks, Issues and Progress
- Sprint Review and Retrospective
- The Agilometer
- Cynefin, Kanban
- Lean Start-up
- Rich communication
- Frequent releases
