PRINCE2 Agile Foundation study plan

Define the core agile concepts (iterative vs incremental, timeboxing, empiricism, self-organisation) in your own words without notes

List and justify at least six reasons organisations adopt agile, matching each reason to a project scenario

Contrast agile and waterfall approaches across scope, planning, risk and control, producing a side-by-side comparison

Identify the five Scrum events, three artefacts and three accountabilities, and state the purpose of each

Build a personal glossary of 30 agile terms with your own one-line definitions

Draw from memory a Scrum board showing backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective

Apply Kanban principles by designing a workflow with explicit WIP limits and a pull policy for a sample team

Explain the Lean Startup build-measure-learn loop and distinguish a minimum viable product from a prototype

Calculate and interpret flow metrics (cycle time, throughput, cumulative flow) from a supplied numeric data set

Compare Scrum, Kanban and Lean Startup and select the most suitable for three described situations, giving a reason each

State the seven PRINCE2 principles and describe how each is interpreted in an agile delivery context

Explain the concept of 'blending' and describe what PRINCE2 provides that agile frameworks do not, and vice versa

Map PRINCE2 management products (for example the business case and the project plan) to their agile equivalents or counterparts

Describe the PRINCE2 Agile 'hexagon' concept of fixed and flexible constraints and apply it to two examples

Identify the roles of the project manager and the delivery team in a blended environment and remove overlaps

Explain how the business case theme is handled when scope is variable and benefits emerge over time

Describe how to organise roles in a blended project, mapping PRINCE2 accountabilities onto agile team structures

Justify where agile fits inside the PRINCE2 process model, identifying the pre-project, initiation and delivery boundaries

Summarise how the 'manage by exception' principle interacts with tolerance-setting for a delivery team

Take a timed 40-question practice set on domains 1-3 and record every error with its cause

Describe the tailoring of each PRINCE2 theme (business case, organisation, quality, plans, risk, change, progress) in an agile context

Explain how quality is addressed through agile techniques such as definition of done and iterative testing

Explain how change is handled through backlog prioritisation and how tolerances still apply

Describe how progress is reported using agile artefacts and what a checkpoint or end stage report would contain

Produce two tailoring recommendations per theme and justify each against a project characteristic

Sequence the seven PRINCE2 processes and state the purpose of each in a blended project

Describe how starting up a project and initiating a project accommodate agile working, including the project initiation documentation

Explain how controlling a stage and managing product delivery are carried out with timeboxes, stand-ups and reviews

Explain how managing stage boundaries and closing a project are handled when deliverables are released incrementally

Complete a 20-question quiz on agile process tailoring, scoring at least 80%

List the agile behaviours expected of a PRINCE2 Agile project manager and give an example of each in practice

Explain the five focus areas (agile framework, business case, requirements, teams, frequent delivery) and how they are assessed

Describe the eight Agilometer factors and what a high or low assessment implies for tailoring

Apply the Agilometer to a described project and recommend tailoring actions based on the result

Distinguish servant leadership and facilitative behaviours from command-and-control behaviours in given scenarios

Re-read your error logs from weeks 4 and 6 and rewrite each corrected concept from memory

Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions

Categorise every remaining wrong answer by domain and close the three weakest areas with targeted review

Recite the seven principles, seven themes, seven processes, five focus areas and eight Agilometer factors from memory

Rehearse exam technique for scenario-based questions, including eliminating options that contradict PRINCE2 principles