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Course Content Outline:

The agile approach to project management can help companies respond faster and more effectively to change. As a result, having a solid grasp of what agile is—and how to effectively use agile approaches in an organization—can help you increase your value as a project manager, and enhance your personal marketability. In this course, learn about agile principles and the agile mindset, and discover essential strategies for breaking down work in an agile fashion, engaging your stakeholders, planning an agile project, and managing team performance. This course covers the knowledge domains for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam. If you’re pursuing the PMI-ACP® certification, this course can help you approach the exam topics with confidence.

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Additional study-aids for the PMI-ACP examination included in the course:

o  Agile Glossary – 400+ terms explained, download and print for pre-exam reference

o  300+ pager Scrum Body of Knowledge

o  The latest version of the Scrum Guide: The comprehensive guide to Scrum by Donald Sutherland and Jeff Schwaber

o  PMI ACP handbook

About the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification

• The PMI-ACP certification is managed by the Project Management Institute (PMI®)
• Since 2011, the PMI-ACP certification has become one of the most widely recognized global credentials available, for professionals who implement Agile methodologies.

Requirements in attaining the PMI-ACP certification:

• Education: At a minimum, A high school diploma is required.
• General project experience
• 2000 hours (a minimum of 12 months) working on project teams earned within the past 5 years
• Agile project experience
• 1500 hours (a minimum of 8 months) working on agile project teams or in agile methodologies within the last 3 years.
• Project Management Education: 21 PMI contact hours of accredited education

PMI-ACP Exam Details

The PMI-ACP exam is designed to objectively assess and measure project management and Agile knowledge.

• The certification exam is offered in a computer-based testing (CBT) environment.
• There are 120 total multiple-choice questions which make up the PMI-ACP exam
• 20 randomly placed “pre-test questions” are included, and do not count towards the pass/fail determination
• Individuals have 3 hours to complete the exam
• While PMI does not publish a precise passing score, individuals should assume a score of 65% is required (65 of 100 questions)

The PMI-ACP Exam Content

The PMI-ACP exam covers a variety of agile tools, techniques, knowledge, and skills over the following seven domains:

Domain                                                                         % of Exam

I. Agile Principles and Mindset                                      16

II. Value-driven Delivery                                                20

III. Stakeholder Engagement                                         17

IV. Team Performance                                                    16

V. Adaptive Planning                                                       12

VI. Problem Detection and Resolution                       10

VII. Continuous Improvement                                      9

PMI-ACP Tools and Techniques include the ten toolkits, each with its own set of agile concepts:

1.    Agile Analysis and Design

• Product roadmap
• User stories/backlog
• Story maps
• Progressive elaboration
• Wireframes
• Chartering
• Personas
• Agile modeling
• Workshops
• Learning cycle
• Collaboration games

2.    Agile Estimation

• Relative sizing
• Story point
• T-shirt sizing
• Wideband Delphi
• Planning poker
• Affinity estimating
• Ideal time

3.    Communications

• Information radiator
• Team space agile tooling
• Osmotic communications for colocated and distributed teams
• Two-way communications (trustworthy, conversation-driven)
• Social media-based communication
• Active listening
• Brainstorming
• Feedback methods

4.    Interpersonal Skills

• Emotional intelligence
• Collaboration
• Adaptive leadership
• Servant leadership
• Negotiation
• Conflict resolution

5.    Metrics

• Velocity
• Throughput
• Productivity
• Cycle time
• Lead time
• Earned value management (EVM) for agile projects
• Defect rate
• Approved iterations
• Work in progress (WIP)

6.    Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting

• Reviews
• Kanban board
• Taskboard
• Timeboxing
• Iteration and release planning
• Variance and trend analysis
• WIP limits
• Daily stand-ups
• Burndown charts
• Burn-up charts
• Cumulative flow diagrams
• Backlog grooming and refinement
• Product-feedback loop

7.    Process Improvement

• Kaizen
• 5Y
• Retrospectives and introspective
• Process tailoring and hybrid models
• Value stream mapping
• Control limits
• Pre-mortem (rule setting, failure analysis)
• Fishbone diagram analysis

8.    Product Quality

• Frequent verification and validation
• Definition of done (“done done”)
• Continuous integration
• Testing, including exploratory and usability

9.    Risk Management

• Risk-adjusted backlog
• Risk burn down graphs
• Risk-based spike
• Architectural spike

10. Value-Based Prioritization

• Return on investment (ROI)
• Net present value (NPV)
• Internal rate of return (IRR)
• Compliance
• Customer valued prioritization
• Requirements reviews
• Minimal viable product (MVP)
• Minimal marketable feature (MMF)
• Relative prioritization and ranking
• MoSCoW
• Kano analysis

PMI-ACP Knowledge and Skills include the following concepts:

·       Agile values and principles

·       Agile frameworks and terminology

·       Agile methods and approaches

·       Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values

·       Stakeholder management

·       Communication management

·       Facilitation methods

·       Knowledge sharing and written communication

·       Leadership

·       Building agile teams

·       Team motivation

·       Physical and virtual co-location

·       Global, cultural, and team diversity

·       Training, coaching, and mentoring

·       Developmental mastery models (e.g., Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)

·       Self-assessment tools and techniques

·       Participatory decision models (e.g., convergent and shared collaboration)

·       Principles of systems thinking (e.g., complex adaptive and chaos)

·       Problem solving

·       Prioritization

·       Incremental delivery

·       Agile discovery

·       Agile sizing and estimation

·       Value-based analysis and decomposition

·       Process analysis

·       Continuous improvement

·       Agile hybrid models

·       Managing with agile Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

·       Agile project chartering

·       Agile contracting

·       Agile project accounting principles

·       Regulatory compliance

·       PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

FAQ

Q. Does this course provide me the required 21 PMI PDU to take the PMI ACP examination

A. *Be warned that various training providers scam you of your $$ by promising it*

Being an online UDEMY course, this does not qualify for the 21 PMI PDUs . But once you activate your access to the course, we provide you an ability to obtain 10 PMI PDUs and a scrum certification for FREE. The 10 PMI PDUs can be used against re-certification (you need 60 PMI PDUs in total). Kindly contact our email helpdesk on additional details