AgilePM ®
Use Agile to improve your projects with the world's leading certification for Agile Project Management.
Description
AgilePM is the industry standard for an agile project approach. It provides a balance between controlling your projects, being flexible, and adapting to changes as they occur. It enables you to develop solutions incrementally, react effectively to change and increase collaboration.
APMG International has developed this course in partnership with the Agile Business Consortium, the leading not-for-profit professional body for promoting and enabling business agility worldwide.
AgilePM is a registered trademark of Agile Business Consortium Limited. All rights reserved. APMG International is a registered trademark of The APM Group Limited. All rights reserved.
Topics Covered
AgilePM focuses on eight principles for effective project delivery:
- Focus on the business need
- Collaboration
- Build incrementally from firm foundations
- Communicate continuously and clearly
- Deliver on time
- Never compromise on quality
- Develop in iterations
- Demonstrate control
Who Should Attend
The AgilePM certification is ideal for all project professionals at any stage of your career.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to join the Foundation course. However, you must hold the Foundation certification to attend the Practitioner course.
Practitioner
Once you have attained the Foundation certification, AgilePM Practitioner builds up to the next level of qualification and equips you with the knowledge and understanding required to apply AgilePM theory to your projects.
Following the course, you will be able to deliver solutions incrementally following the AgilePM methodology, including decision making at project initiation and critical points in the project's lifecycle while empowering project personnel and encouraging increased collaboration and ownership.
Foundation
The AgilePM Foundation certification provides participants with the eight core principles needed to facilitate a successful project, whilst providing flexibility that other project management methodologies do not provide.
Participants will need to complete some private evening study during the delivery of the course. To obtain the AgilePM Foundation certification you must achieve 50% or higher in the exam.
About the Exam
Foundation Exam
The AgilePM Foundation exam adheres to the following format:
- Multiple choice
- 50 questions per paper
- 25 marks required to pass - 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed book
Practitioner Exam
The AgilePM Practitioner exam adheres to the following format:
- Objective testing
- 4 questions per paper with 20 marks available per question (8 in total)
- 40 marks required to pass - 50%
- 2.5 hours in duration
- Open book (official AgilePM Handbook only)
Price
The prices for our AgilePM training courses are:
- AgilePM Foundation - $2195 excluding GST.
3-day course including the exam and the official AgilePM Handbook.
- AgilePM Foundation and Practitioner - $3495 excl GST.
5-day course including the exams and the official AgilePM Handbook.
- AgilePM Practitioner only - $1,695 excl GST
2 day course including the Practitioner exam.
For the dates of our courses, please see the Session Information below.
Outcomes
Following this course, you will be able to:
- Deliver solutions to your client incrementally
- Empower your project personnel
- Encourage collaboration and ownership of tasks and the project
Course Feedback
"Excellent way to get my Agile certification! The trainer knew her stuff and balanced preparing us for the exam with applying the Agile methodology to projects. Thank you!"