About this Course

You will be trained to become an Agile certified practitioner and be able to align your Agile development experience with PMI's six domains of practice and create a personalized plan for self-study to focus your efforts from after the course to your exam date. 

Audience Profile

Experienced Agile practitioners who plan to take the PMI-ACP^® exam, as well as PMP^® credential holders with Agile project management experience who wish to enhance their accreditation.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Prepare to pass the PMI-ACP exam while completing the required 21 contact hours/PDUs
• Navigate the tools, techniques, knowledge and skills exam areas
• Align your Agile experience with PMI's six domains of practice
• Review relevant topics in the PMI suggested reference materials
• Create a plan for self-study between the course and your exam date

Course Outline

1. Introduction to the PMI-ACP Exam

• Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions
• Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
• Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI's six domains of Agile development

2. Implementing Value-Driven Delivery

Focusing on business value

• Defining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
• Leveraging rapid feedback cycles

Ensuring progressive elaboration of requirements

• Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
• Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing on the Definition of Done

3. Maintaining Stakeholder Engagement

Engaging empowered business stakeholders

• Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
• Promoting effective collaboration and participation

Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions

• Enabling knowledge sharing
• Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria

4. Boosting Team Performance Practices

Forming cross-functional teams

• Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision-making
• Influencing teams to design their own internal work processes

Empowering teams to self-organize

• Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
• Creating safe environments for experimentation

Developing high performance teams

• Raising productivity by eliminating waste
• Coaching styles that foster skill enhancement

5. Implementing Adaptive Planning

Planning at multiple levels

• Applying rolling wave planning
• Leveraging progressive elaboration

Employing empirical planning

• Balancing priorities and team capabilities
• Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness

Applying Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)

• Refining estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
• Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
• Controlling costs through quantitative measures

6. Problem Detection and Resolution

Recognizing and mitigating risks

• Time Boxing to focus on immediate issues
• Engaging the team proactively to identify risks and create mitigation strategies
• Ensuring impediments are resolved and stakeholder expectations are adjusted

Communicating risks and impediments

• Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
• Managing features and technical issues with Backlog

7. Facilitating Continuous Improvement

Tailoring the process

• Conducting retrospectives to improve the team's behavior
• Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas

Evaluating work efficiency

• Removing nonvalue-adding processes
• Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)

8. Preparing to Pass the Exam

• Defining your exam preparation strategy
• Gaining insight into the exam format and process
• Applying proven tips for exam success
• Optimizing your study time and focus