PRINCE2 Agile® Certification

This Prince2 Agile® Foundation training course allows with basic knowledge of PRINCE2® Agile and techniques to adapt the procedures in an agile context. You will learn about execution process of PRINCE2 Agile® principles inside organisation to increase efficiency of productivity and bring luxury or comfort in your organisation. Highly professional and knowledgeable tutors will assist you to grab key aspects of PRINCE2 Agile® and help you to prepare for exam.

Course Outline

Module 1: A Project or Business as Usual

Module 2: Difference Between Project Work and BAU Work

Module 3: An Overview of PRINCE2®

• PRINCE2®
• PRINCE2® Principles, Themes, and Processes
• PRINCE2® Management Products
• PRINCE2® Journey with Agile

Module 4: An Introduction to Agile

• An Overview of Agile
• Agile Manifesto
• Waterfall or Iterative and Incremental
• Agile Basics
• Agile Frameworks
• PRINCE2® Agile View
• Agile Behaviours, Concepts, and Techniques

Module 5: Blending PRINCE2® and Agile

• PRINCE2 Agile®: Blending PRINCE2® and Agile
• What does PRINCE2® Agile comprise of?
• Eight Guidance Points
• Beware of Prejudice!

Module 6: What to Fix and What to Flex

• Performance Targets and Tolerance
• Hexagon
• Tolerance Guidance
• Five Targets
• Be on Time and Hit Deadlines
• Embrace Change
• Protect Level of Quality
• Keep Teams Stable
• Accept That Customer Doesn’t Need Everything

Module 7: Agile Behaviours and PRINCE2® Principles

• Applying PRINCE2® Principles
• PRINCE2® Agile Behaviours

Module 8: Agile and PRINCE2® Themes

• Tailoring Business Case and Organisation Theme
• Three PRINCE2® Project Interests
• Tailoring Organisation Theme: Roles
• Tailoring Quality and Plans Theme
• Agile Estimating
• Tailoring Risk, Change, and Progress Theme
• Tracking Progress with Burn Charts

Module 9: Agile and PRINCE2® Processes

• Agile and PRINCE2® Processes
• Relating Agile Processes to PRINCE2® Processes
• Tailoring Starting Up a Project and Initiating a Project
• Starting Up a Project and Initiating a Project Processes
• Tailoring Controlling a Stage and Managing Product Delivery Processes
• Controlling a Stage and Managing Product Delivery Processes
• Scrum Overview
• Lean Startup
• Tailoring Managing a Stage Boundary Process
• Tailoring Closing a Project Process and Directing a Project

Module 10: Focus Areas

• Agilometer
• Requirements
• Rich Communication
• Workshops
• Frequent Releases

This PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner certification will help you to apply PRINCE2® principles, themes, processes, and management products to a project in an Agile context. During this PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner course, you will learn the following topics:

Module 1: Common Agile Methods       

• Difference Between Projects and BAU
• Agile and its Common Approaches
• History of Agile
• Different Levels of Agile Maturity and Agile Frameworks
• Understand Behaviours, Concepts and Techniques that Characterise Agile
• Define the PRINCE2 Agile® View of 'Agile'
• Kanban, Kanban Method and its Six General Practices, including Cumulative Flow Diagrams
• Lean Start-up
• Use of Workshops
• How to Transition to Agile?
• Define Scrum Theory
• Nature of the Scrum team, Scrum events, Scrum Artefacts and Sprints

Module 2: Understand Purpose and Context for combining PRINCE2® and Agile

• Describe the Complementary Strengths of PRINCE2® and the Agile Way of Working
• Define the PRINCE2 Agile®
• Eight 'Guidance Points'
• How PRINCE2® Controls and Governance can enable Agile to be used in many Environments?

Module 3: Apply and Evaluate Focus Areas to a Project in an Agile Context

• Purpose and Use of the Agilometer Throughout a Project
• Six Sliders used on the Agilometer
• Requirements Terminology, Decomposition and Prioritisation
• How is Requirements Prioritisation used?
• Rich Communication Focus Area, its Importance and its Key Techniques
• How to Manage Frequent Releases and the Benefits of 'Failing Fast'?

Module 4: Fix and Flex Six Aspects of Project in an Agile Context

• How to use the 'Hexagon' in Relation to the Six Aspects of Project Performance?
• Use of Tolerances in terms of What to 'Fix' and What to 'Flex'
• Understand Five Targets that Underpin the Use of the Hexagon
• Why the 'Fix and Flex' Approach is Good for the Customer?

Module 5: Apply PRINCE2® Principles, Themes, Processes, and Management Products to a Project in an Agile Context

• Describe Five PRINCE2 Agile® Behaviours
• Two Common Organisation Roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner
• How to Adjust Roles?
• Servant Leadership, its use and Importance
• How to Define Working Agreements?
• Quality Setting Techniques
• Quality Testing, Quality Checking and Management Techniques
• Approaches to Planning and Typical Planning Techniques
• Understand Approaches to Risk and How Agile Concepts Mitigate many Typical Risks?
• How to Blend PRINCE2® with Agile Approaches Controls, Responds to, and Minimises the Impact of Change?
• How Empowered Self-Organising Teams Handle Change Dynamically within Set Tolerances?
• Common Feedback Loops and their Importance
• Progress Monitoring Techniques
• Agile Techniques that may apply to each PRINCE2® process including Cynefin
• How to Flex the 'Direct a Project' Stage and the Benefits of Collaborative Working?
• How to 'Manage by Exception' with Emphasis on Empowerment, Quantity of Deliverables, Rich information Flows and Value of Deliverables?
• Why PRINCE2®' Stages' may not be Required?
• Typical output mechanisms when 'Controlling a Stage' and 'Managing a Stage Boundary'
• Use of retrospectives and How to Make Them Effective?
• Different Approaches to Manage Product Delivery including Scrum and Kanban
• How to Define Work Packages, Product Descriptions, Quality Criteria and Tolerances?
• Give guidance on Behaviours, Risk and The Frequency of Releases
• How to Manage Stage Boundaries and the Similarities between a Stage and a Release?
• How to Tailor PRINCE2® Products?
• Agile Techniques that May Apply to Each PRINCE2® Theme
• Describe Guidance on the Use of Contracts
• PRINCE2 Agile® Delivery Roles
• Tips for the PRINCE2 Agile® Project Manager

This PRINCE2® training course is fully accredited by PeopleCert on behalf of AXELOS, includes both foundation and practitioner exam. Passing the PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner Exam, you will demonstrate your acquired skills and knowledge to lead a successful PRINCE2® project. This certification training course covers both basic and advanced concepts of PRINCE2®, which are as follows:

Module 1: Introduction to Projects and the PRINCE2® methodology

• Define the Characteristics of a Project
• Six Aspects of Project Performance
• Integrated Elements of PRINCE2®
• Understand the Key Concepts Relating to Projects and PRINCE2®
• PRINCE2® Principles
• Initiating and Directing a Project Process

Module 2: Business Case Theme

• Benefits Management Approach
• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Business Case Theme
• Business Justification and Key Concepts

• Review of Initiating and Directing a Project Process

Module 3: Risk Theme

• Risk Management Approach
• Purpose of a Risk Budget
• Key Concepts Related to Risk

Module 4: Quality Theme

• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Quality Theme
• Quality Planning and Assurance, Customer Expectations and Acceptance Criteria

Module 5: Organisation Theme

• Purpose and the Key Management Products
• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Organisation Theme
• Roles and Responsibilities of individuals Involved in Organisation Theme

Module 6: Plans Theme

• Types of Plans
• Recommended Approach to Planning and Defining Analysing Products

Module 7: Change Theme

• Change Control Approach, Issue Register, Issue Report 
• Types of Issue
• Change Control Procedures
• Review of Evening Work

Module 8: Progress Theme

• Daily Log, Lessons Log and Report, Work Package
• Controlling a Stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Closing a Project Process

Module 9: Review of PRINCE2® Characteristics

Module 10: Apply PRINCE2® Principles

• Continued Business Justification
• Role and Responsibilities
• Experience, Tailor the Principles
• Focus on the Product

Module 11: Assess Effectiveness of Applying the Quality Theme

Module 12: Demonstrate Understanding of Key Management Products

Module 13: Applying the PRINCE2® Risk, Change, and Controlling Themes

Module 14: Carrying out the Activities

• Initiating and Directing Project Process Activities
• Controlling Stage Process Activities
• Managing Product Delivery Process Activities
• Managing Stage Boundary Process Activities
• Closing a Project Process Activities

This PRINCE2® Foundation training course covers the foundation level topics, allowing you to understand critical concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2®, benefits management approach, the purpose of a risk budget, change control approach, issue register, and issue report. This certification training course covers the following topics:

Module 1: Introduction to Projects and the PRINCE2® Methodology

• Define the Characteristics of a Project
• Six Aspects of Project Performance
• Integrated Elements of PRINCE2®
• Understand the Key Concepts Relating to Projects and PRINCE2®
• PRINCE2® Principles
• Initiating and Directing a Project Process

Module 2: Business Case Theme

• Explain the Purpose
• Benefits Management Approach
• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Business Case Theme
• Business Justification and Key Concepts

• Review of Initiating and Directing a Project Process
• Review of Evening Work

Module 3: Risk Theme

• Risk Management Approach
• Purpose of a Risk Budget
• Key Concepts Related to Risk

Module 4: Quality Theme

• Explain Purpose
• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Quality Theme
• Quality Planning and Assurance, Customer Expectations and Acceptance Criteria

Module 5: Organisation Theme

• Purpose and the Key Management Products
• Minimum Requirements to Apply the Organisation Theme
• Understand the Roles and Responsibilities of all of those Involved in Organisation Theme

Module 6: Plans Theme

• Types of Plans
• Recommended Approach to Planning and Defining Analysing Products

Module 7: Change Theme

• Change Control Approach, Issue Register, Issue Report 
• Types of Issue
• Change Control Procedures
• Review of Evening Work

Module 8: Progress Theme

• Daily Log, Lessons Log, Lessons Report, Work Package etc.
• Controlling a Stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Closing a Project Process

This PRINCE2® Practitioner Training course covers advanced concepts such as initiating project process activities, reviewing PRINCE2® characteristics, and applying the PRINCE2® risk, change and controlling themes. This training covers the following topics:

Module 1: Review of PRINCE2® Characteristics

Module 2: Apply PRINCE2® Principles

• Continued Business justification
• Role and Responsibilities
• Experience, Tailor the Principles
• Focus on the Product

Module 3: Assess Effectiveness of Applying the Quality Theme

Module 4: Demonstrate Understanding of Key Management Products

Module 5: Applying the PRINCE2® Risk, Change, and Controlling Themes

Module 6: Carrying out the Activities

• Initiating and Directing Project Process Activities
• Controlling Stage Process Activities
• Managing Product Delivery Process Activities
• Managing Stage Boundary Process Activities
• Closing a Project Process Activities

 

This PRINCE2® Overview training covers the introduction to PRINCE2®, components of PRINCE2®, benefits of PRINCE2®, and applying PRINCE2® to projects. This PRINCE2® Overview training covers the following topics:

Module 1: Introduction to PRINCE2®

• What is PRINCE2®?
• PRINCE2® in a Project Management Context

Module 2: Components of PRINCE2®

• Principles
• Themes
• Processes

Module 3: Applying PRINCE2® to Projects

• Benefits of PRINCE2®
• PRINCE2® in your Organisation