About Agile
Agile project management
consists of the family of iterative development frameworks like XP,
SCRUM, RUP, TDD. Agile project management is ideal for projects,
where requirements are highly volatile (evolving), or technology is
very new to the team, or both. While it is a right fit for product
development, it is not limited to that alone. It is beneficial for
any creative work like web based application development,
architecting phase of a civil, mechanical,electrical,plumbing
project, research projects etc. Even world bank sponsored programs
have successfully deployed agile project management, yielding them
better results than water fall (big bang single releases). About PMI-ACP Certification
- Certification is offered by the
Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.
- Exam comprises of 120 multiple
choice questions.
- Exam time is 3 hours.
- 50% of the questions are from
Agile tools and techniques.
- 50% of the questions are from
Agile knowledge and skills.
- Participants are required to
undergo 21 contact hours of instructor led training based on agile
project management, within 1 year of taking the exam.
- Participants can take the exam for
a maximum of three times, within the one year period after gaining
the required 21 contact hours.
The Course Objectives
Prepare the
participants for the PMI-ACP Certification.
To impart
sufficient knowledge and skills to the participants so that they can
start practising the agile project management methodology at their
work place.
Provide 21
contact hours of instructor led training credits to the participants
The course outline
Overview of agile project management
- Agile manifesto
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Popular agile methodologies
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Agile principles and practices
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Quick overview of the agile practices using scrum
Understanding the key roles and artifacts of scrum
- Scrum master (Agile project manager)
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Product owner
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Team members
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Product backlog
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Sprint planning meeting
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Sprint backlog
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Tracking board
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Sprint demo
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Retrospectives
Understanding user stories
- The anatomy of a user story
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User story development techniques
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Story points
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Ideal time
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Wide band delphi
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Playing poker
The sprint planning meeting
- The sprint planning meeting time box
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Feature prioritization
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The tracking board
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Definition of done
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Load balancing
Sprinting
- Self organized teams
- Work volunteering
- Daily stand up meetings
- Burn down chart updation
- Sprint demo meetings
Continuous improvement process
- Velocity
- Sprint retrospectives
- Scaling scrum
- Co-located and distributed teams
Best practices and concepts
- Agile tooling
- Osmotic communications
for co-located and distributed teams
- WIP limits
- Cumulative flow diagram
- Process tailoring
- Affinity estimating
- Product road map
- Story maps
- Wire frames
- Chartering
- Frequent verification
and validation
- Test driven development
/ test first development
- Continuous integration
- Project charter for an
agile project
- Participatory decision
models
- Process analysis
techniques
- Self assessment
- Value based assessment
Soft skills
- Negotiation
- Emotional
intelligence
- Collaboration
- Adaptive leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Servant leadership
- Building high
performance teams
Value based prioritization
- Return on investment (ROI)
- Net present value (NPV)
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Compliance
- Customer valued prioritization
- Minimally marketable feature (MMF)
- Relative prioritization / ranking
- Business case development
Agile implementation
- Agile contracting methods
- Agile project accounting principles
- Applying new agile practices
- Compliance (Organization)
- Control limits for agile projects
- Failure modes and alternatives
- Globalization, Culture and team diversity
- Innovation games
- Principles of systems thinking (complex,
adaptive, chaoes)
- Regulatory compliance
- Variance and trend analysis
- Vendor management
Course duration : 3 days, and upon completion of this course, participants are provided with 22 contact hours certificate issued by the Project management research institute, which they can use while applying for the PMI-ACP credential.
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