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Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with analysts, Quality and process engineers, technicians, managers; supervisors, team leaders, and process operators; anyone who wants to improve their Business Analysis skills. Overview After completing this course, students will know how to: Plan, manage and close requirements for software development project in reduced time using Agile Scrum practices Minimize project uncertainty and risk by applying Agile principles through the Scrum method Ensure your project delivers required functionality and adds value to the business Create an environment of self-management for your software development team that will be able to continuously align the delivered software with desired business needs, easily adapting to changing requirements throughout the process. Learn how to apply Agile Scrum by measuring and evaluating status based on the undeniable truth of working, testing software, creating a more accurate visibility into the actual progress of projects. Many of today?s Project Management and Business Analyst Professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing on Agile development teams - only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied when using a traditional project management approach no longer work as effectively or at all. In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today?s Project Manager and Business Analyst must employ additional project management and business analysis tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects. INTRODUCTION - FUNDAMENTALS OF AGILE * Why Agile? * Exercise 1a: Waterfall-Lean-Agile Simulation * History & Mindset: Understand how the agile approach arose. * The Agile Lifecycle * Introducing Agile to the organization * Roles and Responsibilities on an Agile project team. Understand the purpose, the concepts, the theory, and some applications around the importance of people as individuals providing value through working in teams. * Establishing core hours - How will the team work during a day? * How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations * Exercise 1b: How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations * Planning and Managing Business Analysis Communication and Performance Agile and CMMI * Exercise 1c: Case Study Project ASSEMBLING THE TEAM ? SCRUM ROLES * Value-Driven Development: Understand why agile development focuses so heavily on working products, its more general casting as 'value-driven' development, with incremental, iterative and risk-driven approaches. Themes, theory and applications. * Exercise 2a: Identify the ?Product Owner? * Identify Project Success Criteria * Exercise 2b: Review the Scrum Cheat Sheet * Establish your Agile team using RACI * Exercise 2c: Build the Scrum Team DEFINE THE PRODUCT AND PROJECT VISION * Envision the Product and Project outcomes * Exercise 3a: Review Agile Checklist * Project Chartering (Project Planning) * Assemble the Agile project team ? what are their responsibilities? * Compile the Product Backlog (Coarse-Grain Requirements) * Discuss how to Plan Sprints and Releases * Exercise 3b: Product Vision ? Goals and Strategies * Establish the Project ?time-box? * Exercise 3c: Create a Release Plan * Embrace the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan * Managing different types of Personas on an Agile Project * Identifying and managing ?Information Radiators? * Planning in Agile Projects ? Common practices that work * Determine how the team will tracking and monitoring activities * Exercise 3c: Establish the Project Time-box TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES ? BUILDING THE SCRUM TASK BOARD * Communications * Exercise 4a: Discussion ? Tools and Techniques for Scrum * Planning, Monitoring and Adapting * Scrum Task Board * Exercise 4c: Create a Scrum Task board ? Identify work streams * Agile Estimating * Agile Analysis and Design * Burndown Chart * Team Velocity * Soft Skills Negotiation ESTIMATING AD PRIORITIZING EFFORT * Planning Releases. Understand the value, the concepts, the theory and some applications for learning and adapting at all levels and on all topics (the product, the process, the team, and the organization). * Exercise 5a: Brainstorm Business Functionality * Establishing decision and acceptance criteria for user stories * Planning Poker * Exercise 5b: Estimate Effort (Coarse-Grain) * Prioritize themes and releases * Prioritize user stories * Exercise 5c: Confirm the Estimated Effort (Fine Grain) * Estimating team velocity * Preparing for change ? Is the organization ready? * Exercise 5d: Hold a daily Scrum and update the Scrum Task Board * Exercise 5e: Conduct a Scrum or Scrums PLAN THE ITERATION (SPRINT) * Sprint Zero activities * Elements of a successful Sprint Planning meeting * Create a Sprint Backlog * How to create a task board * Exercise 6a: Using the case study ? Review Iteration Planning Checklist * Create a Sprint plan ? Establishing Sprint success metrics * Exercise 6b: Discussion Sprint ?Zero? Activities * Define the vision and Iteration Requirements * Estimating the level of effort (LOE) with the team * Creating user Stories for the Product Backlog -Guidelines to consider * The art of slicing user stories * Exercise 6c: Review the Sprint Plan * Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements using 2-4 week Sprints * Exercise 6d: Adapting a change-driven Project plan that works * Adapting a change-driven (Agile) Project plan that works ? what are the key differences from traditional (waterfall) project plans? * Finalize the Iteration Plan and how the team will operate RUNNING THE SPRINT - FROM PLANNING TO REVIEW AND RETROSPECTIVE * Managing your Scrums and setting expectations with your team * Exercise 7a: Using the case study ? Review the Review Planning checklist * Using Burndown charts to track progress * Exercise 7b: Using the case study ? Review the Review Retrospective checklist * Manage changes during the Sprint ? What questions to ask * Prepare for the Sprint Review * Exercise 7c: Review of roles - Quiz * Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment * Hold a Sprint Retrospective - What is working and what needs to be improved upon during the Sprints * Update the product backlog - Rework the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan * Plan and Execute the next Sprint * Create an environment for continuous improvement ? Product, Process and People ADDITIONAL INFORMATION * Useful books and links on Agile

Delegates with existing Agile project delivery experience can choose to take the Certification Assessment without enrolling on the course. Get your Continuing Professional Development recognised with a UK CPD Certification Service accredited C-ASDM certificate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frequently Asked Questions I will receive my certificate as soon as I have completed the course You will initially receive an Assessment Completion report after completing the assessment. The report details the certification status: 'Pass' or 'Fail',  and also includes information on which questions were answered incorrectly. The certificate is issued by the CPD Certification Service approximately four to six weeks after completing the certification assessment. A CPD certification is recognised by employers Yes! CPD certification is recognised by private and public sector employers, and in central government departments as a valuable way to evaluate the skills of an individual. Listing your CPD certification as well as the number of CPD Points you have achieved on your CV is essentially showcasing your achievements in continuing your professional development. One CPD Point is equivalent to an hour of training CPD points are units that quantify time, and the quality of learning and development activities. Delegates will earn 3 CPD Points upon successful completion of the  CPD-ASE Certification Assessment,  but will 13 CPD Points after completing the two-day course. My CPD certificate will expire after three years Your certificate will not expire however, best practice suggests a renewal after three years. You can do this by enroling in the C-ASDM course to ensure your knowledge of Agile as a Delivery Method is up to date. I will receive my certificate as soon as I have completed the course You will initially receive an Assessment Completion report after completing the assessment. The report details the certification status: 'Pass' or 'Fail',  and also includes information on which questions were answered incorrectly. Your certificate is issued by the CPD Certification Service approximately four to six weeks after successfully completing and passing the C-ASDM Certification Assessment. A CPD certification is recognised by employers Yes! CPD certification is recognised by private and public sector employers, and in central government departments as a valuable way to evaluate the skills of an individual, and the quality of the learning activities. Listing your CPD certification as well as the number of CPD Points you have achieved on your CV is essentially showcasing your achievements in continuing your professional development. One CPD Point is equivalent to an hour of training CPD points are units that quantify time, and the quality of learning and development activities. Delegates will earn 3 CPD Points upon successful completion of the  C-ASDM Certification Assessment,  but will 13 CPD Points after completing the two-day course. My CPD certificate will expire after three years Your certificate will not expire however, best practice suggests a renewal after three years. You can do this by enrolling on the C-ASDM course to ensure your knowledge as Agile as a Delivery Method is up to date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Service Features Certification * Agile Scrum as a Delivery Method - Essentials (C-ASDM) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On-going support Email support No Telephone support No Webchat support No Online support No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community Support Delegates who achieve the pass mark for CPD certification are additionally offered access to our private 'Certified Scrum Practitioners’ Guild', a private Slack community of like-minded Agile professionals.

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of Agile approaches to product development. It explains what Agile is and when and why to use it. The scope of the programme includes: The course emphasises the collaborative nature of Agile and the flexibility it offers to customers. The principal training objectives for this programme are to help participants understand: * Why and when to use Agile * How to use Agile * The roles involved in Agile development * The cultural factors to take into account * How to manage Agile developments 1 INTRODUCTION (COURSE SPONSOR AND TRAINER) * Why this programme has been developed * Review of participants' needs and objectives 2 BACKGROUND TO AGILE * Issues with traditional approaches to product development * How Agile helps * Roots of Agile * Agile lifecycles * Product v project 3 HOW AGILE WORKS * The Agile Manifesto * Agile principles * Process control: defined v empirical * Different Agile methods * The Scrum framework * DSDM Atern 4 MANAGING AGILE * When to use Agile * Managing Agile projects * Team organisation 5 AGILE TECHNIQUES * Daily stand-ups * User stories * Estimating * MoSCoW prioritisation 6 COURSE REVIEW AND ACTION PLANNING (COURSE SPONSOR PRESENT) * Are there opportunities to use Agile? * What actions should be implemented to adopt Agile? * Conclusion

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Anyone with the need to understand how business analysis is performed to support agile projects or who must transition their existing business analysis skills and practices from waterfall to agile. Overview In this course, students will: Understand the fundamentals of agile delivery and agile business analysis Compare and contrast business analysis on waterfall and agile projects Explain the value proposition for agile product development Define the 4 main types of project life cycles Complete an in-depth walkthrough of the agile delivery life cycle Explain the major flavors of agile Understand the major standards available to assist in transition of skills Define business analysis tailoring and understand how to apply it Learn over 20 business analysis techniques commonly used on agile projects In this course, students will gain an understanding about agile business analysis. Students will learn how business analysis on an agile project is ?the same? and ?different? than business analysis performed on waterfall projects. Students will understand how the business analysis role changes on an agile team. A number of business analysis techniques suited for supporting agile teams will be introduced as will the various standards available to the community to help teams and organizations transition. Since few organizations are pure agile, students will also learn about delivery approaches that use a combination of practices from waterfall and agile and will also be introduced to the important concept of business analysis tailoring ? the key skill used to adapt business analysis skills to all environments ? regardless of the delivery life cycle selected. INTRODUCTION * What is agile * The Agile Manifesto * Agile principles * Agile benefits * Hands-on activity LEARNING AND COURSE OBJECTIVES * The current state of agile * Agile trends * Agile skills * Value proposition * The business case for agile * The BA role changes on an agile project * Hands-on activity UNDERSTANDING PROJECT LIFE CYCLES * Project life cycle * Product life cycle * Incremental versus Iterative * Hybrid approaches to delivery * Choosing a project life cycle AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT AGILE * The agile development life cycle * A sequence of iterations * Essential concepts * Inside each iteration * Iteration goal * Iteration planning * Sequence of tasks * Work period * Testing * End of iteration activities * Evaluation and feedback * Structured walkthroughs * Evaluation guidelines * The BA role in structured walkthroughs * Scripting scenarios * Defect list * Retrospectives * Hands-on exercise TYPE OF AGILE DELIVERY APPROACHES * The flavors of agile * Scrum * Scrum roles * Extreme Programming (XP) * Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) * Feature Driven Development (FDD) * Testing * Best practices used by FDD * Kanban * Kanban Boards * Agile Unified Process * Scaling Frameworks INTRODUCTION TO AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSIS * What is business analysis? * What is agile business analysis? * Framework for agile business analysis * Business analysis components * International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA©) * Project Management Institute (PMI©) * Context to business analysis * Our industry BA standards * Our industry Agile BA standards * Product Owners * What stays the same * What is expected to change * Agile requirements deliverables * Lightweight documentation * Requirements repository * Where business analysis fits in * The BA workload * Hands-on exercise BUSINESS ANALYSIS TAILORING * Business analysis tailoring (defined) * Tailoring considerations * What tailoring looks like * The PMI Guide to Business Analysis * Determining the ?best? BA approach * Methodology vs Standard * Why use methodologies * Determining your methodology * Business analysis impacts TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSIS * Agile BA techniques * Backlog refinements * Behavior Driven Development (BDD) * Burndown chart * Collaborative games * Definition of done * Definition of ready * INVEST * Iteration planning * Kanban board * Minimum marketable features (MMF) * Minimum viable product (MVP) * MoSCoW * Narrative writing * Persona analysis * Product roadmap * Progressive Elaboration * Prototyping * Purpose alignment model * Retrospectives * Story slicing * Hands-on Exercise PRIORITIZATION TECHNIQUES * Requirements prioritization * Prioritizing on agile projects * Prioritization criteria * Business benefit * MoSCoW * Pair-choice comparison * Setting priorities with multi-voting * Cost to acquire and operate * Determining business value * Story point estimating * Planning poker * Project velocity * Hands-on activity COURSE WRAP-UP * Making the transition to agile * How my role will be different * Course summary * Retrospective * Questions ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans BA08 - Agile for Business Analysts training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the BA08 - Agile for Business Analysts course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 1.875 Days 11.25 CPD hours This course is intended for The job roles best suited to the material in this course are: team leaders, project managers, managers of scrum teams, teams transitioning to scrum, professionals intending to pursue the scrum master certification. Overview How to use the Scrum Framework to deliver products and services faster and with higher quality. How to leverage lean principles to identify waste in a system, process, or organization. Techniques and metics Scrum Masters use to improve. team happiness and performance. The patterns and practices of high-performing teams. How the Scrum Master role scales in an Agile implementation. This course is an adaptive, repeatable process that equips individuals and organizations in how to thrive in a world where change is the only constant. From Fortune 100 companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc) to nonprofits. Scrum has a proven record of reducing burnout, doubling throughput in half the time, and increase employee happiness. CORE SCRUM * The Scrum Framework * The Origins of Scrum (Optional) * The Scrum Team * Developers * Scrum Master * Leadership/Management * Scrum Events * The Sprint * Product Backlog Re1nement * Estimation * Sprint Planning * Sprint Review * Sprint Retrospective * Daily Scrum * Scrum Artifacts LEAN PRINCIPLES * Describe a Kaizen mindset and explain how small, iterative changes can lead to revolutionary leaps. * Describe the three pillars of Scrum ? Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation,? which implement the work of Ogunnaike and Ray. * Explain the importance of reducing and eliminating waste in the system. * Perform a root-cause analysis (e.g., using the ?5 Whys? technique). * Assess the Process EZciency of their Scrum Team and recall that the de1nition of Lean is a Process EZciency of 25% or higher. * Explain how the work of Takeuchi and Nonaka on Lean and the Toyota Production System paved the way for Scrum. * Describe the origins of the name ?Scrum? from Takeuchi and Nonaka?s ?New New Product Development Game. * Recognize that a Lean mindset suggests that you address a defect immediately after it is identi1ed as opposed to a mindset where defects are stored to be 1xed later. AGILE MANIFESTO * Recognize the four values of the Agile Manifesto and their signi1cance in the context of complex adaptive systems. * Identify the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto and describe their function in guiding practices that support teams in implementing and executing with agility. * Explain that Scrum is one of the driving forces that gave rise to the Agile movement and predates the Agile Manifesto. * Explain why the majority of ?Agile? teams are late, over-budget, and with unhappy customers (i.e., not agile) and explain what needs to be done to 1x that. PATTERNS OF HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS * Yesterday?s Weather * Happiness Metric * Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster * Stable Teams * Swarming * Interrupt Buffer * Good Housekeeping (formerly Daily Clean Code) * Scrum Emergency Procedure SCRUM@SCALE * Descaling * Scaling the Scrum Master REGISTERED SCRUM MASTER CREDENTIAL * Access and complete the Registered Scrum Master by Scrum Inc. exam. * Download their Registered Scrum Master Credential (upon successful completion of the exam). * Be Recognized in the International Registry of Agile ProfesstionalsTM * State the renewal process. ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans Agile Scrum training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Agile Scrum course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for 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 by collaborating working Overview At the end of this course, you will be able to: Understand the key concepts relating to PRINCE2. Understand the key concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2 Agile. Understand how PRINCE2 principles, themes, processes and management products are tailored and applied in an Agile context. Understand the agile ways of working, key terms and techniques. Understand the focus areas in an Agile context. PRINCE2 Agile is the world?s most complete project management solution, combining the flexibility and responsiveness of Agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2©. As a PRINCE2© Accredited Training Organization of PeopleCert, all students attending this training will be provided with the exam voucher as a part of delivery. COURSE OUTLINE * Course Introduction and Agile Overview * PRINCE2 Summary * Culture * Blending PRINCE2 and Agile * Combining PRINCE2 and Agileÿ * Combining PRINCE2 and Agile (Contd.) * Homework Day 1ÿ * PRINCE2 Agile Themes * PRINCE2 Agile Processes * Agile frameworks, Concepts, and Techniques * Agile Focus Areas * Mock Exam PRINCE2© IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF AXELOS LIMITED, USED UNDER PERMISSION OF AXELOS LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. * ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Notes New Horizons is an Authorised Training Organisation (ATO) for Peoplecert for ITIL4 and PRINCE2 Nexus Humans PRINCE2 Agile Foundation with Exam training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation with Exam course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for Application Consultants and Program Managers Overview Participants learn about the SAP Activate methodology in agile implementation techniques in SAP projects.The course enables participants to apply the Agile techniques in their projects through project use cases and simulations.This class is highly interactiveThis course complements agile courses from other providers, like Certified Scrum Master and/or PMI-ACP training. In this course, students will gain knowledge on how to use techniques in SAP projects. THE BASICS * Agile and SCRUM 101 * Introduction to SAP Activate * Agile Project Fit STARTING AGILE * Roles and Responsibilities * Agile Project Organisation * Prepare Agile Project BACKLOG * Explore Phase Overview * Create Product Backlog * Definition of Done ITERATIVE BUILD * Release Planning * Sprint Cycle * Testing and Deploy SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS * Summary and key points APPENDICES * Agile Manifesto * Agile Use Cases * Agile Fit Questions * Agile Lean Design Templates * Agile and SAP Solution Manager ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans ACT200 SAP Agile Project Delivery training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the ACT200 SAP Agile Project Delivery course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner is designed for those who are already certified in either PRINCE2 or PRINCE2 Agile Foundation levels. Candidates can sit PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner if they hold any of the following project management certifications: PRINCE2 Foundation, PRINCE2 Agile Foundation, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or IMPA Levels A,B, C and D (Certified Project Director). Overview The PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner course explores practical application of the PRINCE2 Agile method with real-world scenarios. Developed in response to demand from user communities, PRINCE2 Agile provides structure, governance and controls when working with agile concepts, methods and techniques. As a PRINCE2© Accredited Training Organization of PeopleCert, all students attending this training will be provided with the exam voucher as a part of delivery. INTRODUCTION AN OVERVIEW OF AGILE INTRODUCTION TO PRINCE2 AGILE THE 5 TARGETS STARTING-UP A PROJECT, INITIATING A PROJECT AGILE AND THE PRINCE2 THEMES CHANGE ORGANIZATION PRINCIPLES AND BEHAVIORS PLANS QUALITY CONTROLLING A STAGE AND MANAGING A STAGE DIRECTING A PROJECT CLOSING A PROJECT RICH COMMUNICATION KANBAN AND THE KANBAN METHOD LEAN START-UP FURTHER GUIDANCE * IPRINCE2© is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Notes New Horizons is an Authorised Training Organisation (ATO) for Peoplecert for ITIL4 and PRINCE2 Nexus Humans PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner with Exam training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner with Exam course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is designed for project leaders, scrum masters, coaches, product owners, and team members who intend on taking the PMI-ACP© exam. Overview Upon successful completion of this course, you will know: ? Agile principles and practices that will enhance team productivity and improve customer satisfaction ? How to create transparent communication among stakeholders ? How to manage project's scope, schedule and budget in an Agile environment ? How to maximize business value and deliver most value early in the project ? How to build high-performing team ? How to plan at multiple levels and manage stakeholders' expectations ? How to detect, track and resolve risks in an Agile project This course provides participants with a solid foundation of the PMI-ACP© exam. Participants will be introduced to PMI Agile concepts and practices. INTRODUCTION TO THE PMI-ACP© COURSE AND EXAM AGILE PRINCIPLES AND MINDSET * Agile project Management Framework: * ? What is Agility * ? Agile Manifesto * ? Agile Principles * ? Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming (XP), Lean * ? Agile leadership * ? Agile process overview VALUE-DRIVEN DELIVERY * What is Value-driven delivery, how to deliver value early and minimize waste * Assessing Value - Return on Investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), Internal rate of return (IRR), earned value management, managing risk * Value Based prioritization ? Customer-Valued prioritization, prioritization schemes (Kano analysis, MoSCoW, relative prioritization / ranking * Delivering incrementally ? Minimal Viable Product (MVP), Minimal marketable Feature (MMF), Work In progress (WIP), WIP Limits, Bottlenecks, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) * Contracting in Agile projects * Verification and validation STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT * Identifying project stakeholders * Managing stakeholder engagement * Establishing a shared vision ? Agile chartering, Definition of 'Done' (DoD), Agile modelling, wireframes, personas * Communication Management ? face to face communication, two-way communication, knowledge sharing, information radiators, social media * Working collaboratively ? workshops, brainstorming, collaboration games * Interpersonal skills for Agile success ? emotional intelligence, active listening, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory decision making TEAM PERFORMANCE * Agile team roles * High-performing Agile teams ? stages of team development * Adaptive leadership * Creating collaborative team spaces ? co-located teams, osmotic communication, distributed teams * Tracking team performance in Agile teams ? burn charts, velocity ADAPTIVE PLANNING * Defining adaptive planning * Principles of Agile planning * Tools for sizing and estimating * Releases and Iterations planning PROBLEM DETECTION ?ND RESOLUTION * How problems impact a project * Detecting problems ? lead time and cycle time, defects, variance analysis, trend analysis, control limits * Managing projects threats and issues ? risk-adjusted backlog, risk severity, risk burndown graphs * Solving problems CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT * Multiple levels of improvement ? processes, product, people * Implementing continuous process improvement ? process tailoring, systems thinking, process analysis, value stream mapping, project pre-mortems * Working towards continuous product improvement ? product feedback loops and learning cycle * Leading continuous people improvement ? retrospectives, team self-assessments PMI-ACP© EXAM PREPARATION * PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars Overview * PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars * PMI-ACP© Candidate Requirements * PMI-ACP© Candidate Fees * PMI-ACP© Exam Application Process

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours Overview Lead the transformation to Business Agility with SAFe Become a Lean-Agile Leader Understand customer needs with Design Thinking Enable Agile Product Delivery Implement Lean Portfolio Management During this two-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework© (SAFe©) and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps.Participants in the class gain insights into mastering Business Agility in order to thrive in the competitive market. They discuss how to establish team and technical agility and organize and re-organize around the flow of value. They also learn and practice the skills for supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Participants in the class explore the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and design thinking approach to agile product delivery. Learners also develop an understanding for implementing a Lean Portfolio Management function in their enterprise. During this two-day course, attendees gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps. Participants in the class gain insights into mastering Business Agility in order to thrive in the competitive market. They discuss how to establish team and technical agility and organize and re-organize around the flow of value. They also learn and practice the skills for supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Participants in the class explore the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and design thinking approach to agile product delivery. Learners also develop an understanding for implementing a Lean Portfolio Management function in their enterprise.