PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is designed for project leaders, scrum masters, coaches, product owners, and team members who intend on taking the PMI-ACP© exam.

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