APMG AgilePM® Practitioner (v2014) – Course Description
The APMG AgilePM® Practitioner v2014 certification is designed for professionals who want to apply Agile Project Management principles effectively in real-world project environments. Building on the AgilePM® Foundation level, this course focuses on practical application, enabling candidates to manage agile projects with confidence, control, and adaptability.
AgilePM® Practitioner v2014 equips learners with the skills needed to handle complex project challenges, balance flexibility with governance, and deliver successful outcomes aligned with business objectives. The course emphasizes real-life scenarios, advanced techniques, and decision-making skills essential for leading agile projects across industries.
What is required?
- AgilePM Foundation certificate.
Who is the Practitioner level for?
- AgilePM Foundation Certified Professionals.
- Agile team members who want to become Agile Project Managers.
Course Summary
As the AgilePM Practitioner certification is for those who have passed the Foundation exam, it’s objective is to transition learners from understanding the framework to applying it effectively. It is designed for professionals in project focused environments who want to be agile.
What are the key things that you will learn?
- How to apply a variety of agile practices to a project, for example, workshops, the MoSCoW technique to define project priorities, iterative development and modeling.
- How to test, estimate and evaluate profit delivery in an Agile project.
- Facilitation and support mechanisms within an Agile project.
- The agile approach to manage and prioritize requirements.
Course Structure
The standard agenda for an AgilePM Practitioner course includes:
- Roles and Responsibilities – the Project Managers view
- Agile Project Management – through the lifecycle
- The Effective Use of the Products
- Deliver on time – Combining MoSCoW Prioritization and Timeboxing
- People, Teams and Interactions
- Requirements and User Stories
- Estimating – How and When
- Project Planning through the Lifecycle
- Quality – Never Compromise Quality
- Risk management
- Tailoring the approach.
Exam Format:
- Objective testing examination. 4 questions (20 points per question).
- 40/80 points required to pass the exam (50%).
- Duration 2.5 hours.
- Open book (only the official AgilePM manual is allowed).
Since its introduction in 2010, AgilePM has fast established itself as the world’s leading framework and certification for Agile project management, with over 200,000 exams sat worldwide.
The AgilePM qualification is based on the AgilePM Handbook, published by the Agile Business Consortium.
The Handbook offers a practical and repeatable methodology that achieves an ideal balance between the standards, rigour and visibility required for good project management, and the fast-pace, change and empowerment provided by Agile.
Agile Project Management training and certification help individuals to:
- Apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of AgilePM in a project situation
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario
- Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritisation, iterative development and timeboxing
- Understand and assign roles and responsibilities within an Agile project
- Understand the mechanisms for governance and control of an Agile project
- Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
- Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements.
Prerequisites
To be eligible for the APMG AgilePM® Practitioner v2014 certification, candidates must hold a valid AgilePM® Foundation v2014 certificate issued by APMG International.
This prerequisite ensures that learners have a solid understanding of Agile Project Management principles, terminology, and framework before progressing to the Practitioner level.
