TARGET PMI AGILE CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER (PMI-ACP)® CERTIFICATION

Structura cursului

• Everything about PMI-ACP Certification

  ◦ PMI-ACP Exam Requirements
  ◦ Exam Questions
  ◦ Application – registration process
  ◦ Exam
  ◦ Maintaining Certification
  ◦ Exam-Taking Tips
  ◦ Learning plan
  

• Agile Principles and Mindset

  ◦ Agile Manifesto - values and principles
  ◦ Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban,
  ◦ DSDM, Lean, Extreme Programming
  ◦ Agile process overview
  ◦ Servant Leadership – Agile Leadership practices
  

• Value-driven Delivery

  ◦ Agile contracting and project accounting principles
  ◦ Agile Risk management
  ◦ Cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs)
  ◦ Customer-valued prioritization
  ◦ Frequent verification and validation
  ◦ Incremental delivery
  ◦ Managing with Agile KPIs
  ◦ Minimum viable product (MVP)
  ◦ Prioritization schemes
  ◦ Relative prioritization
  ◦ ROI/NPV/IRR
  ◦ Software development practices (CI, Refactoring, TDD)
  ◦ Task boards / Kanban boards
  ◦ Work in Progress (WIP) limits
  

• Stakeholder Engagement

  ◦ Active Listening
  ◦ Agile chartering
  ◦ Brainstorming
  ◦ Collaboration games
  ◦ Communication management
  ◦ Conflict resolution – levels of conflict
  ◦ Definition of “done”
  ◦ Emotional intelligence
  ◦ Facilitation
  ◦ Knowledge sharing – written communication
  ◦ Negotiation
  ◦ Participatory decision models
  ◦ Personas
  ◦ Stakeholder management
  ◦ Wireframes
  ◦ Workshops
  

• Team performance

  ◦ Adaptive leadership
  ◦ Agile team roles
  ◦ Building Agile Teams
  ◦ Burn-down / burn-up charts
  ◦ Caves and common
  ◦ Co-location (physical and virtual)
  ◦ Development mastery models (Dreyfuss-skill acquisition, Shu-Ha-Ri-mastery,
  ◦ Tuckman- team formation)
  ◦ Osmotic communication
  ◦ Tacit knowledge
  ◦ Team motivation
  ◦ Team Space
  ◦ Training, coaching, mentoring
  ◦ Velocity
  

• Adaptive Planning

  ◦ Affinity estimating
  ◦ Agile discovery
  ◦ Agile sizing and estimating techniques
  ◦ Daily stand-ups (ground rules, three questions)
  ◦ Defining and testing acceptance criteria
  ◦ Estimating initial velocity
  ◦ Estimating tasks
  ◦ Fast failure
  ◦ Ideal time
  ◦ Iteration planning process
  ◦ Planning poker and story points
  ◦ Product roadmap
  ◦ Progressive elaboration
  ◦ Relative sizing
  ◦ Release planning process
  ◦ Slicing stories
  ◦ Spikes – Architectural and risk-based spikes
  ◦ Story maps
  ◦ User stories
  ◦ User story backlog – refinement, requirement reviews
  ◦ Value-based analysis and decomposition
  

• Problem Detection and Resolution

  ◦ Control limits
  ◦ Cost of change
  ◦ Cycle time
  ◦ Defect rate
  ◦ Escaped defects
  ◦ Expected monetary value
  ◦ Failure and success models
  ◦ Lead time
  ◦ Risk-adjusted backlog
  ◦ Risk burndown graphs
  ◦ Risk severity
  ◦ Technical debt
  ◦ Throughput/productivity
  ◦ Trend analysis (lagging metrics/leading metrics)
  ◦ Variance analysis (common cause/special cause)
  

• Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)

  ◦ Agile hybrid models
  ◦ Feedback methods
  ◦ Fishbone Analysis
  ◦ Five Whys
  ◦ Kaizen
  ◦ Learning cycle
  ◦ PMI Code of Ethics and Professional
  ◦ Conduct
  ◦ Process analysis and process tailoring
  ◦ Product feedback loop
  ◦ Retrospectives
  ◦ Self-assessment tools and techniques
  ◦ Systems thinking
  ◦ Value-stream mapping