Bring an Agile approach to digital service delivery.
In our increasingly digital world, organizations across both private and public sectors are recognizing the need to develop and maintain effective digital services to support customers and citizens.
AgileDS training and certification is based on the Agile Digital Services (AgileDS) Handbook, published by the Agile Business Consortium.
Offering practical advice and guidance, the Handbook enables organizations to develop a consistent approach, common language and skilled workforce for the successful design and delivery of digital services.
AgileDS training and certification will help candidates to:
- Understand the underpinning philosophy, principles and techniques of AgileDS in a project situation.
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an AgileDS project to a given scenario.
- Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritisation, user experience, iterative development and timeboxing.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile Digital Services project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel.
- Understand the mechanisms for planning, control and governance of an Agile Digital Services project.
- Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile Digital Services project.
- Describe the Agile Digital Services approach to managing requirements.
Additional recognition with Agile Business Consortium
Successful AgileDS candidates can claim Business Agility Professional Level 1 – Explorer status and a digital badge from the Agile Business Consortium for added recognition of your Agile credentials. If you're a successful AgileDS candidate, click here to claim your additional recognition and digital badge.
Further details of Business Agility Professional recognition can be found at the Consortium’s website.
AgileDS Foundation
Understand the key concepts of AgileDS to work effectively as an AgileDS project team member.
- Practising project managers.
- Agile team members working in a Digital Services environment who wish to become Agile Project Managers.
- Agile team members working in a Digital Services environment who wish to become more effective team members.
- The underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile and Digital Services.
- The lifecycle of an Agile and Digital Services project, including alternative configurations.
- The artefacts produced during an Agile Digital Services project and their purpose.
- The techniques used and their benefits and limitations.
- The roles and responsibilities within an Agile Digital Services project.
- Multiple choice
- 50 questions
- 25 marks or more required (out of 50) to pass (50%)
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed-book
AgileDS Practitioner
Understand how to apply and tailor the AgileDS guidance to a given scenario situation.
- Practising project managers.
- Agile team members working in a Digital Services environment who wish to become Agile Project Managers.
- Agile team members working in a Digital Services environment who wish to become more effective team members.
- AgileDS Foundation certified individuals.
- Apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile Digital Services in a project situation.
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile Digital Services project to a given scenario.
- Produce and evaluate the content of Agile Digital Services products produced during an Agile project.
- Apply key Agile techniques in a project situation including MoSCoW Prioritisation; Iterative Development and Timeboxing.
- Identify the Agile Digital Services techniques to be used for a given situation.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile Digital Services project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles.
- Understand the mechanisms for planning, control and governance of an Agile Digital Services Project which are specific to an Agile project.
- Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile and Digital Services project.
- Describe the Agile Digital Services approach to managing requirements and identify action to rectify problems with requirements.
- Complex multiple-choice
- 4 questions per paper with 20 marks available per question
- 40 marks (50%) required to pass
- 2.5 hour duration
- Open-book (AgileDS Handbook only)
