Scrum v Agile qualifications
PRINCE2 foundation qualified for 2 years and am looking to increase my qualifications and skills as a PM.
Unsure of which course (Agile or Scrum master) to do first and if anyone can recommend any legit and decent companies to undertake online training for these with exams please.
Any other recommendations for qualifications to work towards in my PM career please? (I like to have a plan of qualifications or courses to work towards to climb the ladder).
Thank you for your help!
What do you mean by PM? Project Manager or Product Manager?
If PM = Product Manager, then start with a Product Owner course. In Scrum Product Owners are Agile Product Managers. PSPO I is a great one.
In Scrum the majority of teams are aligned with Products than projects (although you can use Scrum for a project). There might be a lot of project management going on for a Scrum Team, but project management activities are distributed amongst the team. For example a Product Owner would take care of budgets and forecasting, However, a Scrum Master is anything but an Agile project manager.
And by the way, Agile and Scrum are different. Anyone saying they are using Agile might be using Scrum by aligning with the values and principles of the Agile manifesto. Scrum is the most popular of all the Agile frameworks and birthed the Agile manifesto.
PRINCE2 foundation qualified for 2 years and am looking to increase my qualifications and skills as a PM.
The most important project is the Sprint, because that is the one that allows empiricism to be established and maintained. Try and facilitate the growth of others. Teams are expected to be cross-functional and self-managing, so richer and more robust solutions can be leveraged when facing a complex challenge.
Most of the project management function is therefore refactored over the Developers, a little falls on the Product Owner, and hardly any on the Scrum Master. He or she is accountable for the effective implementation of the framework. If a Scrum Master manages anything, it is people's understanding of Scrum.
I think that this article by Gabriel Steinhardt can shed some light on your query:
As you already have Prince 2, the new Prince 2 Agile edition is bound to be available this year, though I don't know the exact date of publication.
What I can add - consider pursuing whatever course/class/training/whatever that is in line with your understanding/needs/flair/preference for Agile/Scrum.
Scrum Org(Alliance/Inc) has some decent products, SAFe has some decent products, PeopleCert has some decent products, some product management content are also of high quality - look for Gabriel Steinhardt, Steven Haines, Rich Mironov articles.