Duration
3 Days
18 CPD hours
This course is intended for
This course is designed for project leaders, scrum masters, coaches, product
owners, and team members who intend on taking the PMI-ACP© exam.
Overview
Upon successful completion of this course, you will know:
? Agile principles and practices that will enhance team productivity and improve
customer satisfaction
? How to create transparent communication among stakeholders
? How to manage project's scope, schedule and budget in an Agile environment
? How to maximize business value and deliver most value early in the project
? How to build high-performing team
? How to plan at multiple levels and manage stakeholders' expectations
? How to detect, track and resolve risks in an Agile project
This course provides participants with a solid foundation of the PMI-ACP© exam.
Participants will be introduced to PMI Agile concepts and practices.
INTRODUCTION TO THE PMI-ACP© COURSE AND EXAM
AGILE PRINCIPLES AND MINDSET
* Agile project Management Framework:
* ? What is Agility
* ? Agile Manifesto
* ? Agile Principles
* ? Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming (XP), Lean
* ? Agile leadership
* ? Agile process overview
VALUE-DRIVEN DELIVERY
* What is Value-driven delivery, how to deliver value early and minimize waste
* Assessing Value - Return on Investment (ROI), net present value (NPV),
Internal rate of return (IRR), earned value management, managing risk
* Value Based prioritization ? Customer-Valued prioritization, prioritization
schemes (Kano analysis, MoSCoW, relative prioritization / ranking
* Delivering incrementally ? Minimal Viable Product (MVP), Minimal marketable
Feature (MMF), Work In progress (WIP), WIP Limits, Bottlenecks, Cumulative
Flow Diagram (CFD)
* Contracting in Agile projects
* Verification and validation
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
* Identifying project stakeholders
* Managing stakeholder engagement
* Establishing a shared vision ? Agile chartering, Definition of 'Done' (DoD),
Agile modelling, wireframes, personas
* Communication Management ? face to face communication, two-way communication,
knowledge sharing, information radiators, social media
* Working collaboratively ? workshops, brainstorming, collaboration games
* Interpersonal skills for Agile success ? emotional intelligence, active
listening, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory
decision making
TEAM PERFORMANCE
* Agile team roles
* High-performing Agile teams ? stages of team development
* Adaptive leadership
* Creating collaborative team spaces ? co-located teams, osmotic communication,
distributed teams
* Tracking team performance in Agile teams ? burn charts, velocity
ADAPTIVE PLANNING
* Defining adaptive planning
* Principles of Agile planning
* Tools for sizing and estimating
* Releases and Iterations planning
PROBLEM DETECTION ?ND RESOLUTION
* How problems impact a project
* Detecting problems ? lead time and cycle time, defects, variance analysis,
trend analysis, control limits
* Managing projects threats and issues ? risk-adjusted backlog, risk severity,
risk burndown graphs
* Solving problems
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
* Multiple levels of improvement ? processes, product, people
* Implementing continuous process improvement ? process tailoring, systems
thinking, process analysis, value stream mapping, project pre-mortems
* Working towards continuous product improvement ? product feedback loops and
learning cycle
* Leading continuous people improvement ? retrospectives, team self-assessments
PMI-ACP© EXAM PREPARATION
* PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars Overview
* PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars
* PMI-ACP© Candidate Requirements
* PMI-ACP© Candidate Fees
* PMI-ACP© Exam Application Process