PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Review Course

Be at the forefront of Agile practices in your organization. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is the only industry-agnostic, experience-based, and ISO accredited certification exam for agile. It showcases your ability to apply various agile approaches, such as SCRUM, Lean, Kanban, and more. This course satisfies the 28 contact hours needed to take the PM-ACP exam and is developed by Agilists for Agilists and shows the ability to demonstrate the Agile Mindset and Leadership.

At the end of this course, participants should be able to

• Discuss why Agile is fast becoming a preferred approach to delivering projects
• Understand the Mindset domain and its components
• Understand the Leadership domain and its components
• Understand the Product domain and its components
• Understand the Delivery domain and its components
• Evaluate one’s preparedness for the PMP Exam

Course Outline

• Introduction
  • The PMI ACP Exam
• Why Agile?
  • Changes in the workplace
  • Characteristics of the Agile Mindset
  • Summarizing the Core Principles
  • Why use an Agile Approach
  • Professional, team, and organizational agility
  • Creating organizational change
  • Agile Triangle
• Mindset Domain
  • Experiment Early
    • Build an increment of the product to validate the solution
    • Iterative and Incremental Life Cycles
  • Embrace the Agile Mindset
    • Embrace the 4 values and 12 principles
    • Use Agile Frameworks
    • Apply Principles of Systems Thinking
    • Interpret the output of agile suitability tools
    • Integrate Agile Hybrid Models based on needs
  • Promote a Collaborative team environment
    • Establish team vision and working agreements
    • Form and develop high-performing teams
    • Use retrospective findings
    • Use collaborative practices to break down silos
    • Commit to the team’s decisions even in disagreement
    • Evaluate the team’s understanding of Agile
    • Identify factors for inter-team coordination
  • Build Transparency
    • Provide accessible project status and information
    • Establish a feedback loop
    • Use communication strategies for collocated and distributed teams
  • Foster Psychological Safety
    • Promote a no-blame culture
    • Create a safe environment
    • Solicit and provide constructive feedback.
  • Shorten Feedback Loops
    • Include customers from day 1
    • Deliver value as often as possible
    • Use tools and techniques to shorten feedback
  • Embrace Change
    • Promote a Growth Mindset
    • Respond to changing requirements and priorities
    • Encourage and model T-shaped skills
• Leadership Domain
  • Empower Teams
    • Establish an environment of Trust
    • Promote collective ownership of goals
    • Training, coaching, and mentoring
    • Coaching and mentoring members
    • Employ emotional intelligence techniques
    • Interpret non-verbal cues during team interaction
    • Self-assessment tools and techniques
  • Facilitate Problem Resolution
    • Investigate the root cause of problems
    • Determine resolution strategies with the team
    • Ensure problems are resolved on time
  • Promoting knowledge sharing
    • Create an environment to capture and share knowledge
    • Leverage organizational knowledge assets
    • Allocate time for knowledge sharing and making required updates
  • Promote agile mindset principles and practices
    • Create awareness around agile values and principles
    • Foster an environment of continuous improvement
    • Recognize and celebrate agile behavior
  • Promote a shared vision and purpose
    • Define and ensure a common understanding of purpose and vision with all the stakeholders
    • Ensure the product is aligned with the vision and organizational goals
    • Continuously communicate the vision and purpose
  • Facilitate conflict management
    • Identify the root cause of the levels of conflict
    • Promote a collaborative approach to solve conflicts
• Product Domain
  • Refine the product backlog
    • Clarify the backlog items
    • Prioritize the backlog items
    • Decompose the backlog items as needed
    • Use tools and techniques to collectively size up work
  • Manage increments
    • Ensure the increment is aligned with business priorities
    • Define increment goals
    • Demonstrate increments of value from early feedback
    • Measure the delivery of value
    • Measure the delivery of value
  • Visual Work
    • Educate the Team on Visualization Techniques
  • Manage Value Delivery
    • Define what success looks like
    • Ensure that the value increments are optimized
• Delivery Domain
  • Seek Early Feedback
    • Evaluate customer satisfaction
    • Deliver work in small increments
    • Collect and incorporate stakeholder feedback on a regular basis
  • Manage Agile Metrics
    • Determine which metrics are appropriate for a given audience
    • Radiate metrics across the relevant audience
    • Review and analyze metrics
    • Use metrics insights for decision making
  • Manage impediments and risks
    • Proactively identify risks and impediments
    • Engage the team to find the most appropriate course of action
    • Prioritize impediment removal and risk mitigation strategies
    • Monitor and control risk impediments
    • Use lessons learned
  • Recognize and eliminate wastes
    • Visualize the end-to-end flow of value
    • Use metrics, tools, and feedback loops to identify wastes
    • Prioritize waste reduction activities
    • Iterate on the identification and reduction of wastes
  • Perform continuous improvement
    • Obtain metrics and feedback to drive continuous improvement
    • Implement improvement actions
    • Evaluate the effectiveness of process improvements
  • Engage customers
    • Identify and analyze customers and their needs
    • Validate that iteration deliverables meet acceptance criteria
    • Encourage collaboration between the customer and the team
  • Optimize Flow
    • Limit work-in-progress at all levels
    • Shield team members from interruptions
    • Use metrics to analyze and improve flow

Course Duration

• 4 days – Face-to-Face

Delivery Methodologies

• Lecture
• Plenary Discussions

This course is recommended for

• Agile Practitioners who want a broader understanding of Agile practices
• Project Managers who want to acquire the PMI-ACP Certification
• Project Managers who want to acquire knowledge of managing agile projects

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