AgilePM Foundation

A three-day grounding in AgilePM3 Edition 2, covering the philosophy, principles, lifecycle, roles, practices, and project artifacts of the framework. Scrum is treated as the default delivery engine throughout. Suitable for project managers, business analysts, team members, and sponsors working in or moving toward structured agile delivery.

Day 1

Unit 1 - Introduction to AgilePM and Business Agility The evolution from DSDM through AgilePM to AgilePM3 Edition 2. What Business Agility means and why AgilePM and Scrum now work together as a combined framework.

Unit 2 - Key Concepts VUCA and why agility is the response. The Agile Manifesto and ABC principles. Incremental delivery and iterative development: what each means and why both matter.

Unit 3 - Scrum Overview Empiricism, Scrum values, and lean thinking. Scrum Team roles, artifacts, events, and commitments. Product Backlog Refinement as an ongoing activity, not an event. Unit 4 - AgilePM Fundamentals The AgilePM philosophy, the project variables triangle, and the eight principles in depth. How AgilePM's project management layer works alongside Scrum's delivery engine.

Day 2

Unit 5 - Individuals and Interactions Agile leadership and its nine principles. The three Domains of Interest: Value Ownership, Solution Delivery, Delivery Enablement. Project and delivery team roles in depth, including equivalent non-Scrum roles and the Business Analysis perspective.

Unit 6 - Collaboration and Communication Why collaboration and communication are principles, not just soft skills. Planning effective communication. Transparency of process and progress through events, practices, and artifacts.

Unit 7 - Project Lifecycle Framework Increments of value and time. The six lifecycle phases: Pre-Project, Feasibility, Foundations, Delivery, Deployment, and Realization. Key project artifacts by phase. Lifecycle configurations for single-team and multi-team contexts.

Unit 8 - Requirements, Estimating and Prioritization The backlog hierarchy. User Stories, acceptance criteria, and the Definition of Done. Estimating by analogy and decomposition. MoSCoW prioritization, the MUST, and how contingency is built into scope.

Day 3

Unit 9 - Planning and Control Three planning concepts and levels of planning horizon. The Delivery Plan as an evolving artifact. Multi-team Sprint planning, Cross-Team Refinement, and Scrum of Scrums. Four tracking and control concepts: outcome-based measurement, transparency, responding to change, and management by exception.

Unit 10 - Risk Management and Project Approach Risk ownership by domain. How AgilePM embeds risk management into day-to-day practice. The Project Approach Questionnaire: purpose and use across the lifecycle.

Unit 11 - Governance, Compliance and Project Artifacts Agile governance vs. compliance-based governance. Solution quality and process quality. Regulatory compliance in practice. Financial governance, the Cone of Uncertainty, and the key project artifacts that support it.