Course Overview

If you’re experienced using agile approaches, have good collaboration skills, eagerly embrace complexity and thrive on rapid response times, then your talents are in demand. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP^®) formally recognises your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers.

The PMI-ACP^® spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) So it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.

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. 

This global certification also supports individuals in meeting the needs of organisations that rely on project practitioners to apply a diversity of methods to their project management.

Target Audience

If you work on agile teams or if your organisation is adopting agile practices, the PMI-ACP® is a good choice for you. Compared with other Agile certifications based solely on training and exams, the PMI-ACP® is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill.

Pre-Requisite

In line with the requirements set by PMI®, each participant will be issued a so-called student kit, which contains all the necessary materials for the participant to attend the training. The student kit includes a set of workbooks that the participants will use during the course. We will also provide a handout of all the presentation slides and a set of mock exam questions.

Learning Outcomes

• Understanding and applying multiple agile approaches including Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and Test-Driven Development.
• Ability to engage stakeholders effectively to gather requirements, incorporate feedback, and ensure project success.
• Ability to deliver value to customers through iterative development cycles and employing agile metrics for informed decision-making.
• Understand the contents of the PMI Agile Practice Guide
• Know the way PMI-ACP® exam questions are asked and how to answer these  questions
• Understand the topics that will be asked on the PMI-ACP® exam
• Know how to apply for the PMI-ACP® examination

Course Topics

• Agile values and principles; what are the values and principles that the Agile methodology is based on?
• Agile frameworks and terminology; the explanation of the framework of the methodology and the terminology used in Agile
• Agile methods and approaches; The different methodologies that make up the Agile framework
• Stakeholder management; who are the stakeholders in an Agile environment and how are they managed?
• Communication management; How is communication done in Agile?
• Building agile teams; what are the roles in an Agile team?
• Team motivation; how to motivate self-organizing Agile teams?
• Physical and virtual co-location; How to best locate Agile teams
• Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration); the advantages and disadvantages of different decision models 
• Incremental delivery; what is incremental delivery of value on an Agile project?
• Agile sizing and estimation; How do we estimate work in an Agile environment?
• Value based analysis and decomposition; How do we apply Value based analysis in Agile? 
• Continuous improvement; what is continuous improvement and how does it apply to Agile?
• Agile hybrid models; what are the different forms of hybrid models using Agile?

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Course Outline

Agile Basics

• The Agile Manifesto
• Agile and Lean values and principles
• Difference between Agile and Waterfall methods
• Overview of the different Agile Methodologies
• Agile Concepts
• Agile roles and responsibilities
• Agile requirements and planning processes
• Defining the vision

Agile Characteristics

• Stakeholders, User Roles and Personas
• Initiation and Defining the Requirements
• What are Stories and Epics?
• Story Writing
• Estimating from Stories

Agile Tools

• Wall charts
• Velocity
• Burn-up and burn down
• Product Backlogs

The ‘heart’ of an Agile project

• Iteration planning
• Collaborative work
• Make flow visible with the story wall
• Daily standup
• Showcase
• Retrospective

Agile and other methodologies

• Agile without Iterations – Kanban flow
• Agile and Lean – Leagile

Testing in Agile Projects

• How to test and when to test

Design and Development Practices

• TDD
• Continuous Integration
• Refactoring
• Pair Programming

Leadership Roles and Responsibilities

• How to manage Agile teams
• How to stimulate self-management
• How to create empowered teams
• Roles and Responsibilities in Agile

Listening and Collaboration skills

Dealing with Issues and Conflicts

The PMI-ACP Environment

Domains, Sub Domains, Tasks and Tools & Techniques

The Agile Approach in Projects according to PMI

Declaration of Interdependency

(Agile) Iron Triangle / Triple Contraints

The Agile Team

Agile Methodologies

• XP (Xtreme Programming) 
• Scrum
• LSD (Lean Software Development)
• Crystal Family
• ASD (Adaptive Software Development)
• DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method) Atern
• FDD (Feature Driven Development)
• Kanban

Agile Planning

• PMI-ACP Exam Syllabus (Updated)

Working with Agile TERMS

Working with Agile ARTIFACTS