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3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is intended for

This course is designed for project leaders, scrum masters, coaches, product owners, and team members who intend on taking the PMI-ACPÂ© exam.

Overview

Upon successful completion of this course, you will know:
? Agile principles and practices that will enhance team productivity and improve customer satisfaction
? How to create transparent communication among stakeholders
? How to manage project's scope, schedule and budget in an Agile environment
? How to maximize business value and deliver most value early in the project
? How to build high-performing team
? How to plan at multiple levels and manage stakeholders' expectations
? How to detect, track and resolve risks in an Agile project

This course provides participants with a solid foundation of the PMI-ACPÂ© exam. Participants will be introduced to PMI Agile concepts and practices.

Introduction to the PMI-ACPÂ© Course and ExamAgile Principles and Mindset

Agile project Management Framework:

? What is Agility

? Agile Manifesto

? Agile Principles

? Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming (XP), Lean

? Agile leadership

? Agile process overview

Value-Driven Delivery

What is Value-driven delivery, how to deliver value early and minimize waste

Assessing Value - Return on Investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), Internal rate of return (IRR), earned value management, managing risk

Value Based prioritization ? Customer-Valued prioritization, prioritization schemes (Kano analysis, MoSCoW, relative prioritization / ranking

Delivering incrementally ? Minimal Viable Product (MVP), Minimal marketable Feature (MMF), Work In progress (WIP), WIP Limits, Bottlenecks, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)

Contracting in Agile projects

Verification and validation

Stakeholder Engagement

Identifying project stakeholders

Managing stakeholder engagement

Establishing a shared vision ? Agile chartering, Definition of 'Done' (DoD), Agile modelling, wireframes, personas

Communication Management ? face to face communication, two-way communication, knowledge sharing, information radiators, social media

Working collaboratively ? workshops, brainstorming, collaboration games

Interpersonal skills for Agile success ? emotional intelligence, active listening, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory decision making

Team Performance

Agile team roles

High-performing Agile teams ? stages of team development

Adaptive leadership

Creating collaborative team spaces ? co-located teams, osmotic communication, distributed teams

Tracking team performance in Agile teams ? burn charts, velocity

Adaptive Planning

Defining adaptive planning

Principles of Agile planning

Tools for sizing and estimating

Releases and Iterations planning

Problem Detection ?nd Resolution

How problems impact a project

Detecting problems ? lead time and cycle time, defects, variance analysis, trend analysis, control limits

Managing projects threats and issues ? risk-adjusted backlog, risk severity, risk burndown graphs

Solving problems

Continuous Improvement

Multiple levels of improvement ? processes, product, people

Implementing continuous process improvement ? process tailoring, systems thinking, process analysis, value stream mapping, project pre-mortems

Working towards continuous product improvement ? product feedback loops and learning cycle

Leading continuous people improvement ? retrospectives, team self-assessments

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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

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