Agile Project Management (ICP-APM)

Course Code: 1507

$1495

Overview
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What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

The Agile Project Management Training course is a 2-day course aimed to help participants learn advanced project management skills and be the servant leader for their agile teams that deliver value to the customers. This is an advanced level course for participants already familiar with Agile methodologies who desire to take their project management skills to the next level. The course meets the requirements for the ICP-APM designation (ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Project Management).

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Understand Agile project management principles and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
Acquire valuable insights into how you can build trust and ‘empower and inspire’ Agile teams
Gain insight on how to establish transparency in communication inside the team as well as with customers
Learn techniques to develop teams into high-performance Agile teams
Gain powerful Agile Project Management skills using Agile estimation techniques that help derive estimates quickly and more accurately while aiding in iteration and release planning
Combine best methods from multiple Agile project management methods to apply to your Agile team
Establish a plan for incorporating Agile project management practices into specific work areas
Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing Agile team
Learn how to establish and communicate appropriate expectations to Agile teams, including roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
Convert prioritization of requirements from a point solution to a continuously evolving part of the Agile development process

Outline

Module 1: The reality of Agile projects

Taking an Agile view
Tolerating ambiguity and uncertainty
Understanding where traditional practices fall short

Module 2: Managing constraints

Strategically leveraging constraints
Managing tradeoffs to enhance quality
Managing risk
Managing budget, vendors and contracts

Module 3: Understanding Agile team performance and metrics

Measuring team performance
Team productivity metrics
Determining the health of the project

Module 4: Establishing and empowering teams

Establishing effective teams
Working with project and team charters, and working agreements
Creating an empowered team
Servant leadership and building trust
Developing team members and managing resources

Module 5: Maximizing value and Agile planning & estimating

Gain an understanding of adaptive planning
Learn how to leverage your plan to deliver quality and value
Learn how much to invest up front
Understand progressive elaboration
Learn continuous planning, collaboration and transparency of estimation
Review estimating and estimation techniques for an Agile team
Iteration and release planning estimation

Module 6: Communication and Collaboration

Creating stakeholder engagement
Building community
Establishing fluid communication planning
Creating open information and visible communications

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. However, completing the Foundation of Agile course would be beneficial.

Who Should Attend

The Agile Project Management course is highly recommended for anyone considering the use of Agile methodology for software development and project management, such as –

Project managers
Analysts
Developers
Programmers
Testers
IT managers/directors
Software engineers
Software architects
Software managers
Testing managers
Team leaders
Customers/stakeholders
Product owners/Product managers

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Certification

Upon completion of the course, participants get the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Testing (ICP-TST) certification. The ICP-TST certification focusses on Agile testing techniques and processes as well as the mindset and role of an Agile tester. It equips participants with the skills to ‘Agilize’ different types of testing on an Agile project and understand how to best collaborate on an Agile development cadence.

There is no official ICAgile exam associated with this course. The certification can be achieved only after completing the course successfully.