What is Agile, PRINCE2 and Project Management?

197 Pages·2016·26.78 MB·English

p2a; Passing the Prince2agile® Practitioner
Exam at Your First Attempt
Simon Harris, pmp, p2, p2a, cgeit
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Contents
§0s1=Presenter:SimonHarrisPRINCE2P2ACGEITPMPIPMA-D . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
§0s2=PRINCE2Agile®Overview§1-§6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
§0s3=Navigation&SubSections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Section:1s4-§1Introduction&Context–in5slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
§1s5=CourseObjectives–1/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
§1s6=Aboutyourself–2/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
§1s7=Aboutthemanual–3/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
§1s8=Abouttheexam–4/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
§1s9=Examstructure–5/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
§1s10=RevisionAid:Our1stQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section:19s145-§19KanbanMethod–8s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
§19s146=KanbanandtheKanbanMethod1/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
§19s147=The6generalpracticesoftheKanbanMethod2/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
§19s148=The6generalpracticesoftheKanbanMethod3/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
§19s149=The6generalpracticesoftheKanbanMethod4/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
§19s150=The6generalpracticesoftheKanbanMethod5/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
§19s151=Kanban–furtherguidance6/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
§19s152=CumulativeFlowDiagrams(CFDs)7/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
§19s153=CumulativeFlowDiagrams(CFDs)7/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
§19s154=Kanbanhints8/8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
§19s155=Paper_1Qn_36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
§19s156=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-15:Kanban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section:34s226-§34TheExam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Section:35s227-§35Endofslidedeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
§35s228=WhoAreLogicalModelLtd(LML)? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
§36CaseScenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ProjectScenario-Chestertons’CheeseGoldenClogProject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chestertons’GoldenClogProjectSchedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Rebranding–Additionalinformationforquestions7to18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
MarketingCampaign–Additionalinformationfor19to26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
CONTENTS
Website–Additionalinformationforquestions27to38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
MovePremises–Additionalinformationforquestions39to50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
CoursetoSyllabustoAssessmentCrossReference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Apdx:LML’sP2aPractitionerExamQuestionAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
§2s21=Paper_1Qn_3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
§4s38=Paper_2Qn_8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
§4s45=Paper_2Qn_25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
§4s47=Paper_1Qn_25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
§6s59=Paper_1Qn_7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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§10s83=Paper_1Qn_8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
§10s84=Paper_1Qn_31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
§11s87=Paper_1Qn_9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
§13s103=Paper_1Qn_41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
§14s108=Paper_1Qn_10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
§15s120=Paper_1Qn_29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
§16s127=Paper_1Qn_13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
§17s133=Paper_1Qn_44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
§19s155=Paper_1Qn_36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
§20s162=Paper_1Qn_30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
§21s169=Paper_1Qn_32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
§22s177=Paper_1Qn_18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
§23s184=Paper_1Qn_35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
§25s194=Paper_1Qn_34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
§26s199=Paper_1Qn_14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
§29s211=Paper_1Qn_43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Apdx:LML’sP2aPractitionerBack@Work™SkillBuilder{#ApdxB@W} . . . . . . . . . 149
§2s14=BaselineExercise-0:WhatisAgile,PRINCE2andProjectManagement? . . . . . 150
§4s49=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-1:WhatIsChestertons’Investment? . . . 152
§6s61=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-6:Rankthe5behaviours . . . . . . . . . . 156
§8s73=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-2:ClassifyChestertons’Project . . . . . . 159
§9s78=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-7:ApplytheAgilometer . . . . . . . . . . 163
§12s92=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-16:IdentifytheMVP . . . . . . . . . . . 167
§13s101=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™CaseSegmentExercise-3:UserStories . . . . . . 170
§13s102=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™CaseSegmentExercise-4:MoSCowTheRequire-
mentsList . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
§15s119=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-5:AssignRoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
§17s132=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-12:ReleasePlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
§18s143=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-8:CritiqueaWork-Package . . . . . . . 179
§18s144=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-9:ExecutingProjectsinSprints . . . . . 182
CONTENTS
§19s156=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-15:Kanban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
§20s161=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-10:Estimating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
§22s176=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-11:AdvertQualityPlanningforQuality
Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
§24s189=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-13:Retrospectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
§29s210=Back@Work_Skill-Builder™Exercise-14:PreparingaWorkshop . . . . . . . . 191
CONTENTS 1
VnCtl:14/08/201619:32:05ThisfileispartofLogicalModelLtd’sp2atrainingcourse¹
¹http://learn.logicalmodel.net/bundles/prince2-agile-exam-and-elearning-course
§0 s1 = Presenter: Simon Harris
PRINCE2 P2A CGEIT PMP IPMA-D
§0s1=Presenter:SimonHarrisPRINCE2P2ACGEITPMPIPMA-D
§0 s1 Hello, welcome to this training course.
• Helloandaverywarmwelcome.
• <Sync 1 Me> I am Simon. I will be your host and your trainer on your journey through this
course’scontents.Ifullysupportthiscourse.Tocontactme;[e-mail]
or call [phone]. Or join the course’s discussion forum where you’ll find peer
supportfromfellowlearnersforcasestudyworkandcommunity
– FormanyyearsI’veworkedasafreelancecontractor.Contractshavetakenmetomany
organisations and industries. All of them have cultures and norms that have given me
alternativeperspectivesanddifferentinsights.
– As course host I’m going to share all those insights with you and use them to explain
the benefits to you of all the ways of working that the axelos’ prince two agile manual
contains.
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• Ifyouarecurious:…
– About agile this course gives you a hype-free and pragmatic tour of the mind-set,
frameworksandtechniques.
– Ifyoucuriousaboutwhatprincemightofferyouasanagilepractitionerthenthiscourse
explains how prince and agile complement each other. The synergies are greater than
theparts.Usedwithunderstandingratherthandogmait’sagreatwinwin.
• <Sync2Next>Wedoneedtocoversomeadminaswego.
– Firsttheminimuminsandoutsfornavigationthroughthecoursematerialsondifferent
platforms.
– So we can move to the next lesson and introduce the course topic here is just one
navigationdetail„theslidetransitions,particularlyfromlessontolesson.
– Some apps will stop at animations till you Click the “Next Antm” button. Its probably
bottomrightoftheplayer’swindow.Ifthingsstopinasecondortwoyou’llneedtouse
itnow!
– Maybethisiswelcomeback?
– Some eLearning platforms and video trigger the animations. Most formats pause
betweenlessons.Tomoveonyoumayhavea“Next”button,ifsoitisprobablybottom
your right hand side. You may have a “Complete Lesson and Continue” button if so
probablytopyourright.
– Podcasts give you the video sound tracks of a whole section of slides so don’t pause
and omit visuals. So you can relate the audio references to the visual elements I have
includedthefullsetoftheslideimagesandthesenotesintheCourseDownloadsunit.
– Each time you hear me say sync we are moving on a bullet point or graphic within a
slide.Refertotheworkbooksinthedownloadsection.
– The full downloads also include revision aids, the exercise and practice case study, also
alltheaxelos’officialpracticeexampapers,butmoreonthemlater.
• Ok for introductory breadth and overview before we embark on depth in later lessons you
needtomovetothenextlesson.
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Slide and base diagrams Copyright ©AXELOS Limited 2015 Reproduced under licence from
AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. From PRINCE2 Agile® section as detailed on slide image.
Explanatorytextphotosandadditionalitems©LogicalmodelLtd2016
§0 s2 = PRINCE2 Agile® Overview §1- §6
§0s2=PRINCE2Agile®Overview§1-§6
§0 s2 Course P2a
• <Auto0Manual>
• InthiscoursewewillexploretogetherAXELOS’definitionofagilewaysofworking.
– WecoverhowtotailorPRINCEforusewithagiletechniquesandframeworks,concepts
andbehaviours.
PRINCE2®
• prince is a project control structure. It proudly declares that it applies to any project of any
sizeinanyindustryandanycontext.
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– It is right too. I personally know of a multi-billion dollar LNG project run to prince
even though the prince name does not appear anywhere in the company’s in-house
documentation.
– In fact they use Oil industry standard terms like assess, select, define, execute, operate
but the heartbeat is P2. prince terms like Corporate or Programme Management don’t
appear but a group called the Investment committee perform exactly that role but lets
stayontheagileprincetopic.
• Agileissometimesseennarrowlyasanapproachforsoftwaredevelopmentanditworksgreat
there. Partly because software has no physical deliverable and its suits the human ability to
excelthrougharefinementbasedapproach.Considerforexamplehowdoworldclassathletes
getworldclass?Refinementorinathletes’vocabularypractice.
– The truth is any work based on skill, intellectual property or knowledge and service
deliverycanbeequallyflexibleinapproachandsocanbenefitfromagilepractices.
– Agileoffersthemostadvantageswheretherearehighdegreesofcomplexityforexample
fromnoveltyandorfromaneedtogetmanyelementsinteracting.Thesechallengesare
trueofmanymanyfieldsofactivityandanagileapproachessuitthemall.
• Avoiding fragile agile and seeking robust agile with control isn’t a trade-off. We don’t have
tocompromiseagilewaysofworkingtoaddgovernance.
– The insights about how to combine prince and agile create synergy without either
compromisingtheother.Itreallyisfinemarriage.
An aside;
• listening out for when I say prince2 or prince2agile or just agile is hard so from now axelos’
prince2agileguidanceisP2a,agileisagileandprince2isplainprince
• P2afollowsprince’s7principalsandtailorstheapplicationofthe7processesand26templates
and9rolesandthe7themessoyoucanadoptagileinasbroadachoiceofsettingsasyoucan
imagine.
• Ieineveryprojectirrespectiveofit’sindustry,size,specificnatureorit’scontext
• I have been using and teaching the concepts and techniques of agile and adaptive project
managementinbroadindustrycontextsformanyyears.
– (Itsprobablymorethan20yearssinceIdeliveredmyfirstprojectmanagementtraining
classandI’veworkedinprojectsandprogramsforover30years).
– ThroughoutthattimeI’vefollowedorcreatedandrolled-outmanygovernance,control
and management structures by incorporating best of breed ideas. Both P2a and I are
focussed on how we use agile and complex adaptive systems principles without being
boundtoanITworld.
• It is important to say right from the start that this course is focussed on passing AXELOS’
practitionerexam.
– Before I go further be aware that while there is a lot of practitioner value in this course
sittingtheexamrequiresyoualreadyholdtheprincepractitionercertificate.Ifyoudon’t
yet hold the PRINCE2®-Practitioner certificate then we have course materials for that
too–detailsonourwebsiteandinthecourseresources.