IntroductionAbout PRINCE2

Depending on where you might be in your career, we explain below the key benefits of earning your AgilePM professional qualification.Transcript

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• I want to start a career as an agile project managerIn this video Madeleine Parsley describes why she chose to take a
• I want to add agile to my existing project management skillsPRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner course
• I want to advance my career with an AgilePM qualification. with Knowledge Train, and how she has benefited from gaining her

Start a career in agile project managementPRINCE2 certification

Agile approaches. have become increasingly popular in organisations and industries in recent years. Agile enables a flexible, responsive approach to product development to compensate for unpredictable market environments and project contexts.Madeleine explains that she wanted to gain technical insights about

Iterative developmentproject management

The iterative and incremental approach of to improve her ability to manage projects at work.

. Growth in non-IT organisations also rose significantly. to listen on your device.

With an expected increase of over 21 million new About PRINCE2project management rolesPRINCE2 between 2017 and 2027 is the world’s most widely used  ^{applicable to any project, of any size in any industry. PRINCE2 certification can provide several} , there are bound to be many opportunities for both new and experienced agile project managers.benefits

Is agile project management the right career for you?PRINCE2 training

An increased demand for qualified professionals in both virtual classrooms and self-paced online formats.

With the growth of agile in recent years, there has been an increased demand for On an instructor led PRINCE2 course, you will receive high-quality training from an experienced PRINCE2 trainer.project managersInteractive trained in agile practices. Agile requires a different mindset from traditional self-paced online coursesproject management have been designed to maximise the effectiveness of the learning experience. All courses are designed using instructional design best practices to make the learning experience enjoyable and prevent students from being overwhelmed by too much information..Transcript

• Agile focuses on Here’s the full transcript of the video.flexibility, responsiveness to change, and autonomy00:00:08 Sevcan Yasa for teams, whereas traditional approaches focus more on strict project governance and resource management.: So, thank you so much for joining us today. Can we start by taking your name, your job role, and the company you work for please?
• Agile projects work in 00:00:15 Madeleine Parsleyiterative and incremental: Yeah, my name is Madeleine Parsley. I’m a senior research portfolio manager and I work at UK Research Innovation. ways to deliver value early and frequently. Traditional projects use a ‘waterfall’ approach – work progresses only after meeting predefined targets.00:00:23 Sevcan Yasa

If you are flexible, adaptable and enjoy working collaboratively, you might already be suitable for an agile career.: Can you tell us a bit about your role, please.

Low barriers to entry00:00:27 Madeleine Parsley

Enterprise-level roles: So I look after all of our research investments into productivity.

Complex enterprise-level projects often require integration with other activities beyond the scope of the agile teams.Why did you take the PRINCE2 course?

Fulfilling an enterprise-level agile project management role requires detailed knowledge of how agile can interface with other agile and non-agile approaches to project development.00:00:42 Madeleine Parsley

These roles are reserved for agile experts capable of creating new (and sometime never seen before) solutions to complex issues.: I decided to take a PRINCE2 course because I found that I needed more technical insight into how to manage the programme of work that I oversee.

Team-level roles00:00:59 Sevcan Yasa

Most agile project managers begin their career in a team-level role, responsible for sourcing the appropriate tools, resources, and staff, to boost team effectiveness and efficiency.: Did you used to do PRINCE2 or project management prior to taking the course?

They act as ‘servant-leaders,’ helping optimise the project team’s efficiency outside of time-boxed increments but otherwise keeping out the way, so developers have the autonomy to tackle problems they see fit.00:01:05 Madeleine Parsley

Career progression: Yeah, so I’ve done the APM project managers qualification uhm prior in a previous in a previous job role, but I felt which gave me a good background, but my organisation specifically needed PRINCE2 methodologies. So, while I was able to adapt the APM methods, I needed specific things that are unique to PRINCE2.

Agile project managementHow did PRINCE2 qualification help you? can make a great career progression path for existing roles. 00:01:39 Madeleine ParsleyProject managers: Made me feel a lot more confident with running the programme. It has allowed me to work more independently and I have like the confidence that I know what I’m doing and I’ve got the, obviously all the learning materials and worksheets and stuff to look back on if I need to check things, but I’m also able to anticipate future work based on the topics in PRINCE2., procurement managers, contract officers, administrators, and other professionals can move into agile project management.What are the challenges in your role?

An agile project management career can provide opportunity for 00:02:22 Sevcan Yasagrowth, learning and personal development: In terms of PRINCE2, and generally in your role, what do you think are the challenges?.00:02:30 Madeleine Parsley

How can AgilePM help you start a career?: I suppose the challenges with, well, one of the principles of PRINCE2 is that you’re able to tailor it, so I think that the challenge in my role is understanding which bits I should tailor uhm, and also, when you work in a large organisation like I do, which is working on knowledge capital, we’re not building anything. Umm, sometimes uh, it can be a challenge to persuade people that this is the right way of doing things, but since gaining qualification I feel like I’ve been able to get colleagues or stakeholders buy in to activities or pieces of work more easily.

In response to the How was the PRINCE2 course?growing demand for qualified agile project managers00:03:25 Madeleine Parsley, the Agile Business Consortium, together with APMG International, developed the AgilePM qualifications scheme.: So, I did the Foundation and the Practitioner in one week. I found it quite intense and there was a lot of learning obviously. They were quite long days, but I definitely found during the two of them together really, really helpful. It was easy for me to block out a week for the training rather than find time to self-learn and fit it in around my other commitments.

Holistic approach00:03:55 Madeleine Parsley

Based on the AgilePM Handbook (a subset of the DSDM Agile Project Framework), AgilePM offers a holistic approach to agile management, which covers : I enjoyed the classroom element of it, although it was online, people were willing to participate. I definitely found that having prior experience of project management was helpful and I was able to pick up the information quite quickly because of that background.the entire agile project lifecycle00:04:23 Sevcan Yasa.: And just in terms of the Practitioner, do you have knowledge before do you feel like the Practitioner course was slightly harder than the Foundation? Or do you think that the Practitioner was, you know, just the same level as you expected?

The advantage that AgilePM holds over other equivalent qualifications is that while other 00:04:39 Madeleine Parsleyagile courses: I preferred the Practitioner exam to the Foundation exam. I found it. Yeah, I I felt much more confident about the Practitioner than I did about the Foundation. The Foundation was more about testing your knowledge rather than your understanding, so it felt like a memory test, whereas the Practitioner I enjoyed more because you had the open book aspect of it, and it was more realistic because you were applying your understanding to a case study. may cover individual methods and frameworks, AgilePM teaches students a broad range of skills applicable through the entire agile project lifecycle.How did Knowledge Train stand out?

Easy integration with other methods00:05:23 Sevcan Yasa

You can use : And how did you find out about Knowledge Train?AgilePM00:05:27 Madeleine Parsley: And in order to understand whether you actually wanted to go through with Knowledge Train, what did you do?Scrum00:05:43 Madeleine Parsley, : So, we well, I looked up a few different providers and looked at like the availability of courses. What kind of courses they offered because I knew that there were a couple of us from my organisation that did it and I knew that we both we all needed Foundation and Practitioner and understanding there was a critical business need for it and we wanted to get it done quickly.PRINCE200:06:12 Madeleine Parsley, and : It was also working out cost efficiencies and yeah, I wrote a paper on it and presented it to senior colleagues who picked Knowledge Train.PRINCE2 AgileWould you recommend Knowledge Train?.00:06:29 Sevcan Yasa

If you want to begin your career as an : Would you recommend Knowledge Train to friends, families and colleagues?agile project manager00:06:38 Madeleine Parsley and or looking to enhance your CV with a well-known agile project management qualification, look no further than AgilePM.: Yeah.

Learn to manage agile projects effectively

A 2021 survey by PRINCE2 renewal and AXELOS membershipAPM (the Association for Project Management) showed that 66% of project managers see agile as a key asset to project managers in the future Simon Buehring^{[2]6 Mar 2026}.

As Agile’s influence on the project management industry Understand the validity of your PRINCE2 qualification and how AXELOS membership can benefit your career. Learn more about renewal processes by reading on.continues to grow , more project professionals have learned new agile tools and frameworks so they can better adapt to changing demands.

Benefits of Agile

Some key benefits often attributed to Agile include greater value realisation, faster speed to market, improved collaboration, and improved customer satisfaction. In agile, products are delivered early and incrementally.

Each iteration enables users to give feedback which is incorporated into the product in later development. This helps to ensure quality from the start, and helps teams deliver valuable productsPRINCE2 Foundation exam mock questions.

Since its introduction in 2010, AgilePM has established itself as the leading framework and qualifications scheme for Simon Buehringagile project management19 Feb 2026

based on decades of proven practice . AgilePM is the perfect way to support adopting or improving agile project management practices in organisations.PRINCE2 6

How can AgilePM improve my ability to manage projects?

Benefits of AgilePM

The AgilePM qualifications scheme was developed by the Agile Business Consortium in partnership with APMG International and provides several key benefits over equivalent qualifications:

• AgilePM is practical
  AgilePM directly addresses many of the common risks faced by project managers . The Project Approach Questionnaire helps create a shared understanding of project risks and how they can be avoided.
• AgilePM addresses the full project lifecyclePRINCE2 glossary
  The informality of many agile approachesSimon Buehring often does not suit many organisations with established methods for approaching 19 Feb 2026projects and Access a comprehensive PRINCE2 glossary of terms to support your understanding and exam preparation. Essential for students and practitioners alike.programmes . AgilePM offers a flexible approach that still retains many formal project delivery concepts.
• AgilePM includes change management practices
  AgilePM goes a step further than most other project management approaches
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Advance your career with an AgilePM qualification