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PRINCE2 Agile™ Practitioner Certificate in Agile Project Management

Hello,

You'll shortly be attending the PRINCE2 Agile™ Practitioner Certificate in Agile Project

Management course – and to help you prepare for the course, we have put together this

pre-course learning resource. The objective of this learning resource is to help you

refresh your existing knowledge of PRINCE2, just in case you're feeling a bit rusty! In

order to gain the maximum benefit from the course, it is important that you refresh your

knowledge with PRINCE2 Practitioner level certification.

To help you achieve this we have created an online quiz. This quiz will provide you with

an opportunity to refresh your PRINCE2 Foundation knowledge.

We've also included a brief introduction to some of the key concepts that will be

covered during the course.

ONLINE QUIZ

We recommend that you attempt the

quiz a couple of times to reassure you

that you are ready to attend the course.

Note: The test is completely anonymous

and your score is not being tracked.

LAUNCH QUIZ

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PRINCE2 PROCESS MAP

PRINCE2 Agile™ – What’s in it? And what’s in it for me?

Lead author and Chief Examiner for the new guidance, Keith Richards, will discuss what

is included within the new solution and how you and your organization can benefit from

it. Keith cover topics such as the reasons for combining PRINCE2 with Agile methods,

the respective strengths of both, the complementary aspects of the two approaches and

the challenges that arise from using them together.

View Video

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AGILE

Agile is an umbrella term

covering frameworks that

adhere to the Agile

manifesto

AGILE MANIFESTO

The Agile manifesto was

written by a group of

developers and consultants

attending a conference at

Snowbird, Utah in 2001.

In Agile, Values are more important than Rules.

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AGILE PRINCIPLES

There are 12 Agile principles:

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SCRUM

Scrum is the most widely used Agile

framework. The 17 page (yes that’s all!)

guide can be downloaded from

www.scrumguides.org

Kanban

Kanban (or parts of it) are often used. The

following video is a good introduction.

Mike Burrows keynote presentation

at the London Lean Kanban Day:

Kanban, the Hard Way

Extreme Programming – XP

Extreme Programming – XP introduced

several practices that are widely used

including Pair Programming, Continuous

Integration and Test Driven Development –

TDD.

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MIXING FRAMEWORKS

Many Agile teams implement a blend of frameworks, e.g. Scrum teams often use

Kanban boards to represent their Product and Sprint backlogs. Furthermore, they use

TDD to help them write quality code.

SPOTIFY TRIBES

Introduces an Agile culture using a combination of

Kanban and Scrum.

View Video Part 1

View Video Part 2 These two videos offer a great

insight into how Spotify

"I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT"

View Video Part 1

View Video Part 2

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BLENDING PRINCE2 AND AGILE

PRINCE2 Agile Lead Author Keith Richards discusses how

the PRINCE2 project management methodology may be

combined with agile to effectively manage projects.

View Video Part 3

View Video Part 4

That's all for now, hope you found this pre-course learning resource useful. Enjoy your

course!