PRINCE2 Agile Courses

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