COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this course, you will learn about:

•  Agile development lifecycle end to end with real-world examples,
•  Compare Agile development practices to the traditional approaches for project management,
•  Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban and Lean),
•  How to build self-organizing high performing teams,
•  Real-world techniques for planning, estimating and prioritizing requirements in an Agile way,
•  Learn how to engage your business customers and delight them through early and frequent delivery of value,
•  Requirements gathering through vision, product road map, collaboration, brainstorming, defining high level
• user stories (Epics) and defining acceptance tests,
•  Key Agile Project management processes of release planning, iteration planning, iterations monitoring and
• meetings, along with other factors such as prioritizations using different techniques,
•  Create effective visible Agile tracking reports using burn downs, burn up etc,
•  Get understanding advanced topics such as scaling Agile to large projects, distributed teams and lean portfolio
• management, and
•  Prepare participants to pass the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP examination.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Agile project managers, Scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, developers, testers, IT leaders, project

stakeholders, and other team members interested in passing the PMI-ACP certification exam.

PREREQUISITES

For a good learning experience with this course, you are required to have:

•  2,000 hours working on project teams within the last 5 years or PMP certification
•  Additional of 1500 hours working on agile project teams or with Agile methodologies within the last 3 years,
•  21 contact hours of education this must be earned in Agile practices

COURSE OUTLINE

PMI-ACP Certification and Exam Format

Overview of Examination/ Overview of Agile Tools And Techniques

• Introduction to Agile and Agile Methodologies
• (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean Agile, FDD, Crystal, DSDM)
• Comparison of Agile Frameworks?
• What is Agility
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Principles and Values
• Agile Triangle
• Agile Methodologies
• Agile Project Lifecycle

• Agile Project Visioning, Project Initiation Setting a Stage
• Multiple Levels of Planning (Release Planning, Iteration Planning, Portfolio Planning)
• Time Boxing
• Agile Burndown and Burnup Charts
• Agile Cumulative Flow Diagrams
• Agile Kanban Boards
• Agile Retrospectives

• Agile Requirements, User Stories
• User Stories
• Theme & Epics
• Agile Story Maps
• Agile Wireframes
• Agile Project Charter
• Agile Personas
• Agile Modeling

• Project Estimation
• Agile Relative Sizing/Story Points
• Ideal Days
• Elapsed Time
• Agile Planning Poker
• Agile Wideband Delphi
• Agile Affinity Estimating

• Project Communication
• Project Communication
• Agile Information Radiator
• Agile Team Space
• Osmotic Communications for Collocated and Distributed Teams
• Agile Tooling
• Agile Daily Stand-Ups

• Agile - Product Quality
• Agile Frequent Verification and Validation
• Agile Test First Development
• Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• Agile Definition of Done
• Agile Continuous Integration

• Soft Skills
• Agile Emotional Intelligence
• Agile Collaboration
• Agile Adaptive Leadership
• Agile Negotiation
• Agile Conflict Resolution
• Agile Servant Leadership

• Value-Based Prioritization
• Time Value of Money
• Business Case
• Agile Return on Investment (ROI)
• Agile Net Present Value (NPV)
• Agile Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• Payback Period

• Agile Compliance
• Agile Customer-Valued Prioritization
• Agile Minimally Marketable Feature (MMF)
• Agile Relative Prioritization or Ranking

• Risk Management
• Risk Management in Agile
• Agile Risk Adjusted Product Backlog
• Agile Risk Management (Risk Identification, Assessment, Response, Review)
• Agile Risk Burndown Chart
• Agile Risk Profile Graphs
• Progressive Risk Reduction Steps
• Agile Risk-Based Spike

• Agile Metrics and Value Stream Analysis
• Definition Metrics
• Types of Metrics
• Agile Velocity
• Agile Cycle Time
• Earned Value Management (EVM) for Agile Projects
• Earned Value Terms Defined
• Earned Value Metrics
• Baseline Metrics
• Measuring Metrics
• Burnup/Burndown Charts
• Agile Escaped Defects

• Agile Knowledge and Skills
• Assessing and Incorporating Community and Stakeholder Values
• Active Listening
• Brainstorming Techniques
• Building Empowered Teams
• Coaching and Mentoring within Teams
• Agile Communications Management
• Feedback Techniques for Product
• Incremental Delivery