Program Objectives
This training program is open to anyone interested in expanding their professional skills. The practical examples and exercises are chosen so they map well to the daily work of Business Analysts; participation is expressly open to everyone, regardless of current professional role. The course teaches methods, tools, and content that can be applied in many different work contexts.
The following typical tasks from the daily work of Business Analysts serve as worked examples in the exercises; they can be adapted to other fields of activity during the course:
- Requirements workshops
- Process reviews
- User stories
- Data mappings
- Stakeholder interviews
PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner (Version 2)
- Course organization
- Recap: Introduction to PRINCE2 Agile® - The synthesis of control and agility
- Recap: The seven principles of PRINCE2®
- Recap: The seven practices of PRINCE2®
- Recap: The seven processes of PRINCE2®
- Recap: Tailoring PRINCE2® to agile environments
- Challenge: Assessing the landscape
- Challenge: Tailoring initiation
- Challenge: The "agile contract"
- Challenge: Forming the team
- Challenge: Scope creep
- Challenge: Quality under pressure
- Challenge: Questionable progress
- Challenge: A risk materializes
- Challenge: Management upwards
- Challenge: The stage exit review
- Challenge: Justifying the approach
- Challenge: Reassessing the business case
- Introduction to PRINCE2 Agile® management products
- Applying PRINCE2 consistently
- Question banks for knowledge checks
- Exercises, case studies, and exam preparation
DevOps Foundation
- Introduction to DevOps and its rationale
- The emergence of DevOps
- The cultural and philosophical approach of DevOps
- Fundamental understanding of DevOps
- DevOps stakeholders and collaboration
- Culture, Organizational Change Management (OCM), and change enablement in DevOps
- Reasons for adopting DevOps
- Common misconceptions about DevOps
- Core DevOps practices (Part 1)
- Excursion: Continuous Everything - The holistic approach
- The value stream
- The deployment pipeline
- Core DevOps practices (Part 2)
- Version control in DevOps
- Excursion: The tool landscape
- Configuration management
- Value stream thinking: From need to customer benefit
- Definition of Done (DoD)
- Excursion: The reality of automation - Strategies for typical challenges
- DevOps anti-patterns
- Service management as an enabler for DevOps
- Key practices in DevOps
- Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in DevOps
- DevOps and Scrum: Iterative work in conjunction with continuous flow
- DevSecOps - Security best practices
- DevOps and Lean/Kanban: Flow, Work In Progress (WIP) limits, and continuous improvement
- Measuring and improving with DevOps
- DevOps in practice
- Knowledge sharing
- AI in DevOps: Generative AI, AIOps, and guardrails for flow, quality, and stability
- DevOps exam preparation
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Apply PRINCE2 Agile principles and practices to manage complex projects in agile contexts.
- Adapt PRINCE2 methodologies to suit specific project challenges and environments.
- Understand and implement core DevOps principles, culture, and practices.
- Facilitate collaboration and efficiency between development and operations teams.
- Utilize key DevOps tools and techniques for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
- Integrate security practices into the DevOps lifecycle (DevSecOps).
- Measure and improve IT processes using DevOps metrics and KPIs.
- Analyze the role of AI in enhancing DevOps workflows.
Career Prospects
This program is relevant for professionals in roles such as:
- Project Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Agile Coaches
- IT Operations Managers
- Software Developers
- System Administrators
- IT Consultants
- Business Analysts
- Professionals seeking to bridge the gap between project management and IT operations.
The acquired skills are applicable in environments requiring flexible project management and efficient, collaborative IT service delivery.