PRINCE2 Agile Combined and Digital Core Guidance (Including Exams)
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Introduction
PRINCE2 Agile® is a forward-thinking certification blending the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the defined governance of PRINCE2®.
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.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) 35.
Audience profile
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.
Agile professionals, project managers and aspiring project managers who want to be able to combine PRINCE2® and Agile in the most effective way when using PRINCE2®, Agile behaviours, concepts, frameworks and techniques.
Other key delivery team staff, including Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Developers
Business professionals with an interest in iterative and incremental project delivery through collaborative working.
Pre-requisites
Students will be required to complete pre-course reading prior to their attendance to ensure that they are prepared for the course. Students should receive their courseware two weeks prior to the start date of the course. It is therefore encouraged that students read, and familiarize themselves with, the PRINCE2 Agile Handbook prior to the start of the course. Whilst attending the course students should also be prepared to complete evening work.
To take the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification, a candidate must hold one of the below certifications:
- PRINCE2 Agile Foundation (preferable)
- PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
- International Project Management Associate (IPMA) Level A® (Certified Projects Director)
- International Project Management Associate (IPMA) Level B® (Certified Senior Project Manager)
- International Project Management Associate (IPMA) Level C® (Certified Project Manager)
- International Project Management Associate (IPMA) Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)
Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand agile concepts, frameworks, and techniques
- Learn about scrum theory and the nature of the scrum team, scrum events, scrum artifacts and sprints
- Learn how to manage frequent releases and the benefits of ‘failing fast’
- Understand how blending PRINCE2 with agile approaches can help control, respond to, and minimize the impact of change, including risk management and configuration management
- 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 apply or tailor the PRINCE2 principles, themes, processes and management products to a project in an agile context
- Understand theory through practical application
Course content
Module 1: Overview of PRINCE2 Agile Foundation | |
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Module 2: PRINCE2 Summary | |
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Module 3: Blending PRINCE2 and Agile | |
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Module 4: Combining PRINCE2 and Agile | |
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Module 5: PRINCE2 Agile themes | |
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Module 6: PRINCE2 Agile processes | |
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Module 7: Agile frameworks, concepts, and techniques | |
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Module 8: Agile focus areas | |
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Module 9: Overview of Agile | |
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Module 10: Introduction to PRINCE2 Agile | |
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Module 11: The 5 targets | |
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Protect the level of quality |
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Module 12: Starting up a project and initiating a project | |
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Module 13: Business case | |
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Module 14: Change | |
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Module 15: Organization | |
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Module 16: Principles and behaviours | |
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Module 17: Managing product delivery | |
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Module 18: Plans and progress | |
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Module 19: Quality | |
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Module 20: Controlling a stage and managing a stage boundary | |
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Module 21: Directing a project | |
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Module 22: Closing a project | |
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Module 23: Rich communication | |
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Module 24: Kanban and the Kanban Method | |
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Module 25: Lean startup | |
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Module 26: Further guidance | |
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Associated certifications and exam
This course prepares students to write the Axelos’s Exam MC-P2AFE: PRINCE2 Agile Foundation exam and MC-P2APE: PRINCE2 Agile Practioner exam. Exam Format is 1-hour, multiple choice questions, 50 questions with a pass mark of 55% & a closed book exam. The delivery method of the exam is Proctor-Led & Computer-Based.
This course also prepares students to write the Axelos’s Exam EP-P2A: PRINCE Agile Practitioner exam. Exam Format is 2½ hours, multiple choice questions, 50 questions each worth one mark, 30 marks or more required to pass out of 50 questions: 60% pass mark & an open book (official PRINCE2 Agile guide only) examination. The delivery method of the exam is Proctor-Led & Computer-Based.
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT letter of attendance.
PRINCE2 Agile® is a registered trademark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.
PRINCE2 Agile® Overview
PRINCE2 Agile® is a solution combining the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2®. PRINCE2 Agile framework covers a wide range of agile concepts, including SCRUM, Kanban and Lean Start-up. It provides guidance on tailoring PRINCE2 in an agile context and includes:
- How to tailor the integrated set of PRINCE2 principles, themes and processes
- How to produce the PRINCE2 management products
- How to map the common agile roles to the PRINCE2 project management team structure
- How to incorporate the fundamental agile behaviours, concepts and techniques into PRINCE2
The strength of PRINCE2 lies in the areas of project direction and project management whereas agile has a very strong focus on product delivery. When PRINCE2 and agile are combined, project direction, project management and project delivery are optimized to create a complete project management solution.
PRINCE2 Agile is an extension module tailored for forward-thinking organizations and individuals already benefiting from PRINCE2. It provides further guidance on how to apply agile methods to the world’s most recognized project management method.