DAY ONE

Introduction to the PMI-ACP® Exam and Agile Principles

• 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

Value-Driven Delivery

• 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

Stakeholder Engagement

• 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

DAY TWO

Team Performance

• 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

Adaptive Planning

• 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

DAY THREE