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Agile Project Management® Foundation Level with Practitioner (AgilePM)

APMG Accredited Training

Chaired by
Steve Browne

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14 - 18 July, 2025
09:25 - 16:15

Virtual Using Zoom

Overview

The pressure on the public sector to deliver better services quicker, smarter and cheaper in an ever-changing world means learning and adapting - applying flexible ways of working. Delivering projects using an agile approach has become expected.

If you want to help your team communicate better, manage risks and deliver high quality services in a faster manner, you need a clear strategy to implement more effective methodologies.

Our five-day course covers the established certification by APMG and the Agile Business Consortium. It gives an extensive breakdown of the principles of this modern project management approach and highlights how it differs from and extends traditional methodologies.

Leave the course fully qualified in AgilePM Practitioner Level and confident in your ability to apply agile in your organisation to transform and improve project management.

This course is aimed at professionals who are operating in an agile environment and need to be able to run projects in more complex and scalable situations.

Exams

Foundation exam at the end of day 3 and practitioner exam at the end of day 5

Download the full course information here.

Project Management Consultant,
AgilePM Accredited Trainer

Steve started as a computer programmer, working for a subsidiary of Nat West bank, before taking on a role in pre-sales consultancy and client training both in the UK and internationally.

He became involved in Project Management in the 1980’s while working for a services company. Two spells as a company director saw Steve develop a strong interest in formal methods. A return to full time project management included a series of increasingly complex projects and led to programme and portfolio management roles. He has worked with both on-shore and off-shore teams to deliver change ...


Steve Browne

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand Agile Project Management which is based on the internationally recognised framework of DSDM

  • Increase your value as a project manager in an agile project environment

  • Assess the difference between simple lightweight agile approaches which typically operate at the solution delivery (or ‘work package’) level and the greater holistic view of how multiple work streams are co-ordinated with the appropriate level of governance and control

  • Be prepared for the Foundation & Practitioner exams


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Agenda

Day 1 Scrum Essentials:

09:15 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 09:45 Introductions and Logistics

09:45 - 10:45 Scrum and Agile

  • Introduction to Scrum and Agile

  • How Scrum works

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 The team and their workload

  • The Scrum Team and its values

  • The Product Backlog

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Focussing attention

  • The Product Goal

  • The Sprint and Sprint Planning

14:30 – 14:40 Break

14:40 – 15:30 Pulling together

  • Working in a Sprint

  • The Sprint Review and Retrospective

15:30 – 15:40 Break

15:40 – 16:10 Getting the job done

  • Backlog Refinement and Estimating

  • Empiricism and Lean Thinking

16:10 - 16:30 Some AgilePM Fundamentals concepts

  • VUCA

  • Project vs Product

16:30 Finish

Day 2 – Foundation part 1

08:45 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:15 Recap

09:15 - 10:30 AgilePM Fundamentals

  • Iterative and incremental

  • AgilePM framework

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Individuals and Interactions

  • Stakeholders

  • Agile leadership

  • Roles and patterns

12:00 - 12:30 Collaboration and Communication

  • Effective collaboration

  • Benefits of collaboration

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Collaboration and Communication continued

  • Effective communication

14:00 - 14:45 Project Process and Lifecycle

  • From initial idea, through delivery, to measuring the improvement it has made

  • Increments

  • Lifecycle phases

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 15:30 Project Process and Lifecycle continued

  • From initial idea, through delivery, to measuring the improvement it has made

15:30 - 16:30 Defining and Organising Requirements

  • Backlogs and Vision

  • Requirements and User stories

  • Refining requirements over the lifecycle

16:30 - 16:45 Homework

16:45 - 17:00 Questions & Close

Day 3 – Foundation part 2

08:45 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:00 Homework Review and Day 2 Recap

10:00 - 10:45 Estimating and Prioritising the work

  • Key ideas about estimating

  • Estimating through the lifecycle

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Estimating and Prioritising the work continued

  • MoSCoW prioritisation

11:30 - 12:30 Planning and Control

  • Outputs, outcomes and benefits

  • Planning horizons

  • Transparency and demonstrating control

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Governance and Risk

  • Agile governance

  • Governance work products

  • Risk management and tailoring

14:30 - 14:45 Break

14:45 - 15:15 Revision

15:15 - 15:30 Foundation Exam Administration

15:30 - 16:10 Foundation Exam

16:10 - 16:30 Exam discussion

16:30 - 16:45 Homework

16:45 - 17:00 Questions & Close

Day 4 – Practitioner part 1

08:45 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:45 Homework Review

09:45 - 10:45 Team structure and Way of Working

  • Analyse the team

  • Analyse the challenges

  • Processes and tools

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Risk Management

  • Risk register

  • Identifying risks

  • Approach based risk

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Defining and Estimating the Work

  • T-shirt estimating

  • Agreeing a persona

  • Product goals

  • User stories

  • MoSCoW prioritisation

  • Story point estimation

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 15:45 Responding to change over following a plan

  • Responding to change

  • Planning workshop

15:45 - 16:15 Delivery Planning

  • Analyse the delivery plan

16:15 - 16:45 Homework

16:45 - 17:00 Questions & Close

Day 5 – Practitioner Part 2

08:45 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:00 Homework Review

10:00 - 10:30 The multi-team dimension

  • Multi-team planning

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:15 Regulatory Compliance

  • Identifying regulation

  • Integrating inspection

11:15 - 12:00 Demonstrate Control

  • Practical ways to ensure control

  • Ensuring senior stakeholders are comfortable with progress

12:00 - 12:30 Review and questions

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Practitioner Exam Administration

14:00 - 16:00 Practitioner Exam

16:30 - 17:00 Questions & Close

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