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Agile approaches are no longer limited to software development. They are more and more popular with various organizations that need to be more flexible and responsive to effectively address their increasing pace of change. Agile Project Management is an innovative approach to project management.

What is Agile Project Management?

Agile Project Management (AgilePM) is an iterative approach to planning and guiding project processes. At the core of agile is the requirement to exhibit central values and behaviors of trust, flexibility, empowerment, and collaboration. Agile project methodology breaks down projects into small pieces that are completed in work sessions that run from the design phase to testing and quality assurance. These sessions are often called sprints: sprints are generally short, running over days or weeks; they're typically two to four weeks long.

Does Agile have a project manager?

The role of Project Manager tends to be quite different on agile projects: it is the team member who deals with problems and handles interruptions to allow the other team members to concentrate on producing the work. So agile projects need documentation, reviews and processes just as traditional projects do to meet requirements, manage costs and schedules, deliver benefits and avoid scope creep; agile simply does not place as much emphasis on highly detailed documentation and does not expect to fully understand the requirements before work can begin. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of delivering a working product as something tangible for the client that can then be refined until it fulfills the client's needs. The key measure of project progress is this series of working deliverables.

Intro to Agile methods

This 1-hour webinar, followed by almost 100 professionals from all over Europe, will introduce you to the different agile methods, the principles of the AgilePM approach and the tools needed to manage projects in an Agile way. STRUCTURE OF THE WEBINAR

• • The "Agile Manifesto": philosophy, principles, behaviors
  • Intro to the most known and used agile PRACTICES: MoSCoW, Time Boxing, Iterative Development, Daily stand up meetings, etc..
  • Intro to the most known and used agile TOOLS: Burn charts, Kanban, User stories...
  • Intro to different agile APPROACHES: Scrum, Lean, XP, AgilePM, AgileBA, DevOps, SAFe ...
  • Overview of Agile Project Management (AgilePM): roles, responsibilities, principles, timeboxing ...
  • Q&A Session

AXELOS is delighted to announce that from 1 January 2018, all new ITIL Foundation certificates will include one year’s subscription to ITIL Membership. As Axelos announces:

"Following feedback from ATOs and end learners, we are reinforcing the importance of, and our commitment to, professional development. Professional development is core to our businesses and we would like to work closer with our training partners to use Membership as a platform to enhance their wider offering."

What is included in the ITIL Membership?

ITIL Membership includes toolkits, templates, white papers as well as guidance to support an end learner working through the portfolio.

How can you claim their ITIL Membership subscription?

Every candidate that earns a new ITIL Foundation certificate from 1 January 2018 will be contacted by AXELOS to activate their subscription. Candidates will be invited to claim a digital badge that links to their ITIL Foundation certification.  

Do you know? A new update for ITSM: ITIL 4!

ITIL 2011 framework and best practices have been a powerful tool for organizations to maintain and improve their it service management for decades. However, two of the biggest criticisms of ITIL v3 have been its relationship with the ITSM community and failure to keep up with recent trends in software development and IT operations. The update will include practical guidance on how to shape and tailor your IT management strategy in the increasingly complex modern environment.

Want to know more?

Download now our last document about this matters, it's free! ITIL 4: all the answers to the most common questions

Developed by QRP in-house experts, our fully accredited PRINCE2 Foundation e-learning has been taken from the official PRINCE2 2017 syllabus and made into an interactive and exclusive online training solution in order to prepare you for the PRINCE2 Foundation exam and PRINCE2 Practitioner exam, and even more. Managing Director of QRP Jacobus Groot explains:

"The world is going digital and so is QRP. As one of the first ATOs we made a transition to fully online examinations in all cases and it did not stop here. The launch of this new e-learning Package is the start of a new era for QRP as we now offer complete e-learning solutions without any paper involved. QRP strives to be a leader in flexible learning solutions for all. Developing professionals to facilitate change: less paper, less travel , more interaction, more sustainability. With this development we are pleased to get the digitalisation support a more sustainable planet too. I can't wait to launch the various local language versions as soon as the new translated manuals are out! This way we can bring learning to even more countries in the World."

What’s in Prince2 online?

The e-learning is broken into 20 bite sized lessons which include videos, quizzes and a collection of interactive readings that provide more in-depth detail on the PRINCE2 method. In order to create knowledge retention we have included the Q-Trainer functionality - it is a tool that repeats questions in such a way that the knowledge will be stored in your long-term memory. All those items combined with the 2 PRINCE2 Foundation exams simulator and the online tutor support ensure that you gain the required level of knowledge to obtain the PRINCE2 Foundation Certification.

Online Prince2 Foundation & Practitioner Exam included

The PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner exam will take place online thanks to the remote ProctorU technology which gives you the freedom to take your exams at a time and location convenient for you, using a webcam and a reliable high-speed connection.

PRINCE2 e-learning course: test your knowledge 

With an ever growing database of test questions and 2 complete PRINCE2 Foundation mock exams, you are assured all aspect will be covered and all subjects continuously tested against your knowledge to ensure the best possible preparation towards sitting the official PRINCE2 Foundation exam. In the PRINCE2 Practitioner online course,  there are 2 project Scenario exercises that will prepare you for the practitioner exam.

Interactivity Readings about PRINCE2 method

Our experienced PRINCE2 experts explain the method through a wide range of video, interactive readings and practice exam questions, which will help you to not only know PRINCE2 and obtain the PRINCE2 Foundation & PRINCE2 Practitioner certification, but also apply it for your projects. The course has been designed to ensure that it provides an interactive and engaging explanation of the PRINCE2 method.

Access the PRINCE2 online course from all types of devices

Anytime, anywhere… any device: you can access the PRINCE2 online course from all types of devices (laptops, smartphones or tablets), wherever you want and whenever you want, and without having to take time off work. So you can learn at a pace that suits you, at home, at work or on the go!     Learn more about the PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner online course Buy now your PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner Elearning Package Got questions? Contact us and we’ll help you choose the perfect training solution to suit your needs

A big news was released few days ago by Axelos Global Best Practice: "Following the successful update of PRINCE2 in English, AXELOS is delighted to announce the schedule for translation of the PRINCE2 2017 updated manual and the supporting Foundation and Practitioner examinations. The first languages to become available will be German, Dutch, Polish, Danish, French and Norwegian." For our Lux audience, this news is especially relevant as it specifically indicates the launch date of the translated PRINCE2 manual and official Foundation and Practitioner exams in French. "The translation, taken from the  second impression of the new manual will be accompanied with the supporting examination questions that have become available after a recently completed standard review of the latest questions. This is to ensure that the translation into the languages is done from the highest possible quality of the source English material." FIRST FRENCH PRINCE2 2017 COURSES AVAILABLE:

• 12-13-14-15-16 November, Luxembourg - REGISTER!

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Start the new year with the right knowledge! If you missed out on the five articles below, we give you another chance to download and learn! These are the top 5 most visited and downloaded articles of 2017, enjoy your reading! 1. PRINCE2 for small scale projects: This article is an excellent review of the challenges people face when using PRINCE2 for smaller projects, together with very useful and practical recommendations on how to scale down the method without losing the essence of its principles. It explains explains the rationale for a ‘light-touch’ approach to the management of small projects based on PRINCE2. Since the launch of PRINCE2 in 1996 organizations have worked to embed the method and this introduction describes some of the outcomes. DOWNLOAD 2. PRINCE2 2017 Chapter 4 Tailoring and adopting PRINCE2: The fourth chapter of the official PRINCE2 2017 manual has the goal to show how to use the inherent flexibility of PRINCE2 to tailor it for any project and build an organizational PRINCE2-based project management method. This chapter includes situations that the project manager may encounter. The chapter also contains specific lists of tips that refer to how to ensure that the tailoring of the methods actually adds value, and illustrates 5 common situation where to tailor PRINCE2. DOWNLOAD 3. Five Ways PRINCE2 can be Agile: AGILE practices started in the 1990 : working groups of experts edited the “AGILE Manifesto” followed quickly by the launch of the “AGILE alliance”. At present, there are about 13 agile approaches used in project management. We asked our expert trainer and consultant Antoine Breton IF and HOW PRINCE2 can be tailored and applied to the so called “Agile Projects”. In this article, he shows 5 PRINCE2  elements that can actually give Agility to your projects. DOWNLOAD 4. What’s the future for Project Management? This article from QRP International has the goal to explain what’s the general status within Project Management world, and how the changes in this environment have helped raise the need for an updated version to PRINCE2. By analyzing the latest report in Project Management, the “The Future Project Management Professional” from Axelos, the article examines the 4 main aspects of change for the profession of Project Manager, and highlights how these changes have a great impact on a well-known and internationally recognized certification like PRINCE2. DOWNLOAD 5. PMO Definitions Challenges Solutions: This is a KEY document for anyone embarking in a PMO challenge. As project management has become accepted as a mainstream management discipline, many organisations have established a PMO (Portfolio, Programme or Project Management Office) function to increase the maturity of their project management approach. This paper describes the community of stakeholders that benefit from the existence of a PMO, the services that are most important to them, the key challenges that PMOs are facing and the ideas that are helping to meet these challenges. DOWNLOAD PRINCE2 2017 Process Map Not an article, but still in the TOP 10 of most downloaded item from our Knowledge Center is definitely the updated PRINCE2 Process Map to 2017 version: a graphical ‘at a glance‘ representation of all the PRINCE2 processes and how they fit together and it shows all the processes involved in running a PRINCE2 project from start to finish. This version of the Process Map is the renewed and updated one according to the new 2017 version of the PRINCE2 method. A key document for all project managers that want to run a project following the recommended steps. DOWNLOAD REMAIN UP-TO-DATE Register to our newsletter to receive new content directly in our inbox!