IntroductionCapture lessons from current and previous projects, share them, and show evidence that actions changed as a result.

Define clear roles and decision rights across business, user, and supplier interests to prevent confusion and weak leadership.

Depending on where you might be in your career, we explain below the key benefits of earning your AgilePM professional qualification.Set tolerances for key objectives and escalate only exceptions, so senior oversight is efficient and focused.

To skip to the section most relevant to you, click one of the links below:Plan and control in stages with stop or continue decisions at boundaries, using current forecasts and actuals.

• I want to start a career as an agile project managerStart with products and quality criteria, then tailor PRINCE2 to context without stripping out essential controls.
• I want to add agile to my existing project management skills
• I want to advance my career with an AgilePM qualification.

Start a career in agile project management

Agile approachesContents 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.

Iterative development

The iterative and incremental approach of Agile

Self-pacedSince its introduction in 2010, AgilePM has established itself as the leading framework and qualifications scheme for agile project managementPRINCE2 Practitioner (with Foundation) self-paced online.

Practical framework£1,399 +vat

Based on the Agile Business Consortium’s Agile Project Framework, AgilePM guidance offers a practical agile methodology that combines the standards and visibility favoured by traditional project managers with the flexibility and responsiveness provided by Agile.

Scalable corporate solutionsInstructor-led

AgilePMPRINCE2 Foundation course offers a structured and scalable corporate Agile solution based on decades of proven practice£1,299 +vat. AgilePM is the perfect way to support adopting or improving agile project management practices in organisations.

How can AgilePM improve my ability to manage projects?.

Benefits of AgilePMProject manager’s responsibility

The AgilePM qualifications scheme was developed by the Agile Business Consortium in partnership with APMG International and provides several key benefits over equivalent qualifications: A responsibility of the project manager is to identify, document and disseminate lessons, via lessons reports to the project board. Members of the project board distribute the lessons reports to appropriate parties within the organisation’s various projects.

• AgilePM is practicalLessons log
  AgilePM directly addresses many of the common risks faced by Aside from lessons identified during the current project, PRINCE2 also emphasises the importance of project managerslessons learned. The Project Approach Questionnaire helps create a shared understanding of project risks and how they can be avoided. from previous projects. In PRINCE2, the very first activity the project manager performs during the starting up a project process is to create a lessons log, in order to document previous lessons. Lessons reports may then be generated at the end of each stage and are a required output of the closing a project process.
• AgilePM addresses the full project lifecycleAuditing
  The informality of many When assessing whether an organisation’s approach to project management is compliant with PRINCE2, assurance auditors may require evidence that lessons are being ‘learned’, i.e. proof that steps have been taken to avoid repeating previous mistakes.agile approachesOne potential source of evidence is an adapted quality control process if the original strategy was modified after being found wanting. often does not suit many organisations with established methods for approaching For example, suppose the projectsquality management and approach for a software project called for ‘user acceptance testing’ but some users recruited for the testing were found to lack the necessary experience. In later testing procedures, a more focused category of user could be recruited, in response to the lesson learned about inappropriate users.programmesHiring based upon lessons. AgilePM offers a flexible approach that still retains many formal project delivery concepts. Recruiting an individual with experience in a similar project, or purchasing documentation from a previous project, can be an effective means of avoiding past mistakes. A number of high-profile project managers from the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, were recruited to work on the London 2012 Olympic Games project management team – they brought with them their own lessons learned.
• AgilePM includes change management practicesLessons repository
  AgilePM goes a step further than most other An organization’s project management approachesproject management office, detailing how products will be implemented. This is integral to the AgilePM lifecycle and ensures that users are supported once the products are made available. (
• AgilePM incorporates other agile practicesPMO
  AgilePM incorporates a range of popular agile practices to support effective product development. Such as ) should create a repository of lessons reports, ensuring that lessons are made available to future projects. Learning from experience is crucial to PRINCE2’s ‘best practice’ approach to MoSCoW prioritisationproject management, timeboxing and iterative development..

If you enrol in an Define roles, responsibilities, and relationshipsAgilePM Foundation & Practitioner courseThe ‘define roles, responsibilities, and relationships’ principle emphasizes that each person involved in a project should be aware of the particular contribution that he/she is expected to make to that project. For example, a lack of clear leadership is a common cause of project failure. With defined roles and responsibilities in place, the risk of project failure due to inadequate leadership can be reduced.

Advance your career with an AgilePM qualification

One flaw of many £1,899 +vatagile methods is their lack of guidance regarding traditional project management duties. This is something that is addressed by AgilePM by building See all datesproject management processes into its framework.

Understanding multiple approaches

Despite what many say, agile is not the ‘end-all-be-all’ solution to project management. In many industries, dispensing the reliability and predictability of traditional project management often has disastrous results.Self-paced

While learning how to apply a pure-agile approach can certainly pay dividends, PRINCE2 Practitioner (with Foundation) self-paced onlineproject managers need to have a holistic understanding of multiple approaches.£1,399 +vat

AgilePM complements existing knowledge

If you have existing project management experience, AgilePM will provide you with a broader view of project management that compliments your existing knowledge.

What if you must lead a project with non-Agile aspects? What if your agile project relies on products produced by non-Agile projects?

These are the questions AgilePM seeks to answer by offering a mix of Instructor-ledboth project governance and iterative developmentPRINCE2 Foundation course so you can find the solution that best suits your project.

Learning every aspect of £1,299 +vatproject management can teach you how to manage projects with non-Agile aspects and help you better interface with the broader organisation where Agile has not yet penetrated.See all dates

Professional developmentTolerances

Earning an AgilePM qualification shows employers that you’re committed to furthering your professional career and taking an active interest in developing your skillset with the latest advances in There are 7 performance targets for which tolerances are set on a PRINCE2 project. These are: time, cost, quality, scope, benefits, risk, and agile project managementsustainability..

These are important aspects that potential future employers are looking for in more experienced candidates. What’s more, our Project tolerancesAgile Project Management courses When the project is commissioned tolerances are agreed for each of these elements at the project level by the business layer. Changes to these project-level tolerances can only be made by the business layer. have won awards, so you can know that you’re in competent hands when you learn with us.Once an exception to a project-level tolerance occurs, the project board must escalate the problem to the business layer for a decision.

Global employment opportunitiesStage tolerances

AgilePM qualifications can help take your career to the next level. Thousands of organisations need AgilePM-qualified project managers to help facilitate agile transformation, manage change projects, and improve product delivery. Stage tolerances are calculated by the project manager when planning each stage. They are then approved by the project board when it approves a stage plan. Similarly, work package tolerances are approved by the project manager when a work package is authorised.

AgilePM is internationally recognised, allowing you to take your skills and experience abroad.Work package tolerances

Recent surveys show that the median salary of qualified agile project managers is £51,000 per annum If a team manager raises an issue, indicating a deviation from work package tolerances, the project manager must assess the issue and take corrective action, unless the stage tolerances will be affected. If the issue will affect the stage tolerances, the project manager must create an exception report, and escalate the matter to the project board.^{[3]Benefits of ‘managing by exception’}, with the opportunity for career advancement and increased salary as you gain experience. By working in this way, the project board ‘manages by exception’ i.e. only gets involved when key decisions need to be taken (when an issue exceeds agreed tolerances) and hence is a very efficient use of senior management time. Note that in

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