ACPAgile Certified Practitioner
Course Overview
Agile is a topic of growing importance in project management. The marketplace reflects this importance, as project management practitioners increasingly embrace agile as a technique for managing successful projects. The PMI-ACP® certification recognizes an individual’s expertise in using agile practices in their projects while demonstrating their increased professional versatility through agile tools and techniques. In addition, the PMI-ACP certification carries a higher level of professional credibility as it requires a combination of agile training, experience working on agile projects, and examination on agile principles, practices, tools and techniques. The global certification also supports individuals in meeting the needs of organizations that rely on project practitioners to apply a diversity of methods to their project management.
Key Takeaways
Course Outline
- Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions
- Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI’s seven domains of Agile development
- Focusing on business value
- Defining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
- Leveraging rapid feedback cycles
- Ensuring progressive elaboration of requirements
- Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
- Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing on the Definition of Done
- Engaging empowered business stakeholders
- Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
- Promoting effective collaboration and participation
- Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions
- Enabling knowledge sharing
- Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria
- Forming cross-functional teams
- Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision-making
- Influencing teams to design their own internal work processes
- Empowering teams to self-organize
- Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
- Creating safe environments for experimentation
- Developing high performance teams
- Raising productivity by eliminating waste
- Coaching styles that foster skill enhancement
- Planning at multiple levels
- Applying rolling wave planning
- Leveraging progressive elaboration
- Employing empirical planning
- Innovation Games
- Balancing priorities and team capabilities
- Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness
- Applying Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)
- Refining estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
- Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
- Controlling costs through quantitative measures
- Recognizing and mitigating risks
- Time Boxing to focus on immediate issues
- Engaging the team proactively to identify risks and create mitigation strategies
- Ensuring impediments are resolved and stakeholder expectations are adjusted
- Communicating risks and impediments
- Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
- Managing features and technical issues with Backlog
- Tailoring the process
- Conducting retrospectives to improve the team’s behavior
- Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas
- Evaluating work efficiency
- Removing nonvalue-adding processes
- Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)
- Review of Course Content
- Defining your exam preparation strategy
- Exam format and process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Optimizing your study time and focus
Who Should Attend?
Project Managers, project team members, SCRUM Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, members of the PMO and those looking at agile alternatives in their organization