Course Overview:
The PMI-ACP formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles & your skill with agile techniques. The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD). In this powerful course, you’ll gain and understand the concepts, principles, and methods of Agile development and become empowered to execute on your plans for incorporating Agile practices and techniques into your organization.
The Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that you’re ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery. This PMI-ACP exam prep training not only prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort but ensures that you’re prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam.
This course provides a proven combination of class learning and testing that prepares students for some of the most difficult of testing situations. Questions are designed to allow you to learn through practice so that you will be able to apply what you have learned for the exam.
Course Outline:
Introduction
- Why Agile Project Management
- Project Management Industry Trends
- Value of this PMI-ACP training
- What Is An Agile Project Manager
- PMI-ACP Eligibility & Requirements
- PMI Exam Overview & Contents
- Exam Domains
Domain 1: Agile Principles & Mindset
- Advocate for agile principles and values in the organization
- Ensure common understanding of agile principles
- Educate and influence agile
- Transparency equates to trust
- Safe environment for experimenting
- Experiment with new techniques and processes
- Share knowledge new collaboration
- Emergent leadership
- Practice servant leadership
Domain 2 : Value-Driven Delivery
- Overview of the Value-driven Delivery
- Value-driven Delivery Principles
- Financial Assessment Metrics
- Prioritization overview
- Prioritization techniques
- Delivering Incrementally
- Minimal Viable Product
- Reprioritization or relative prioritization
- Agile compliance
- Agile tools
- Agile contracts
Domain 3 : Stakeholder Engagement
- Working with the project stakeholders
- Establishing a shared vision
- Creating collaboration
- Communicating with project stakeholders
- Using interpersonal skills
- Engage and empower business stakeholders
- Share information frequently with all stakeholders
- Form working agreements for participation
- Assess organizational changes to maintain a stakeholder engagement
- Used collaborative decision-making and conflict resolution
- Establish a shared vision for project stakeholders
- Maintain a shared understanding of project success
- Provide transparency for better decisions
- Balance certainty and adaptability for better planning
Domain 4: Team Performance
- Develop team rules and processes to foster buy in
- Help grow team interpersonal and technical skills
- Use generalizing specialist
- Empower and encourage emergent leadership
- Learn team motivators and demotivators
- Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams
- Team Empowerment
- Encourage communication via collocation in collaboration tools
- Shield team from distractions
- Align team by sharing project vision
- Anchor team to measure velocity for capacity and forecast
Domain 5: Adaptive Planning
- What Is Adaptive Planning?
- Progressive elaboration and rolling wave planning
- Transparent planning and key stakeholders
- Managing expectations by refining plans
- Adjusting planning cadence based on project factors and results
- Inspect and adapt the plans to changing events
- Size items first independently of team velocity
- Adjust capacity for maintenance and operations demands to update estimates
- Start planning with high-level scope schedule and cost range estimates
- Refine ranges as the project progresses
- Use actuals to refine the estimate to complete
Domain 6: Problem Detection & Resolution
- Create a safe an open environment to surface problems
- Engage team in resolving threats and issues
- Resolve issues or reset expectations
- Maintain a visible list of threats and issues
- Maintain a threat list and add threat remediation efforts to the backlog
Domain 7: Continuous Improvement
- Periodically review and tailor the process
- Improve team processes through retrospectives
- Seek product feedback via frequent demonstrations
- Create an environment for continued learning
- Used values dream analysis to improve processes
- Spread improvements to other groups in the organization
