1 – Welcome & Introduction

Course Overview

· About the instructor and course goals

· Who this course is for & why it matters

· Layout of this course

Certification Information

· PMI-ACP exam overview (structure, requirements, 2025 changes)

· How to apply for the PMP exam

Study Guidance

· How to navigate the course & study effectively

· Certificate of completion

2- Project Introduction

Project Basics

· What’s a project

· Project, Program, Portfolio

Project Structure

· Project process group / lifecycle

· Documentation and delivery

Project Constraints

· Scope, time, cost

3 – Agile Foundations

Core Agile Concepts

· General Agile concept

· Predictive vs Agile

Agile Values & Principles

· Agile Manifesto: values & principles

Agile vs Traditional

· Agile vs. traditional project management

4 – Agile Frameworks

Development Approaches

· Predictive, iterative, incremental

· Decomposing work

Team-Level Agile Frameworks

· Scrum: roles, ceremonies, artifacts

· Extreme Programming (XP): roles, artifacts, events, planning practices

· Lean principles: principles and pillars, 7 wastes of Lean

· Kanban: flow, WIP limits, cumulative flow

Agile Method Families

· Feature Driven Development (FDD): processes

· Crystal: principles, Crystal colors

· Adaptive Software Development (ASD)

· ScrumBan

Scaling Agile

· Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): core values and principles

· Scrum@Scale

· Scrum of Scrums

· Disciplined Agile (DA)

Framework Selection

· Choosing the right framework

5- Agile Mindset (28%)

Agile Thinking & Experimentation

· Experiment early: practices and frameworks, learn fast, MVP, MMR
Complexity & Organizational Models

· Cynefin

· Stacey Matrix

· VUCA

· Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)

Team Culture & Collaboration

· Collaboration and transparency

· Team spaces

· Psychological safety

· Feedback loops

6 – Leadership (25%)

Agile Leadership Principles

· Servant Leadership

· 12 Principles of Leading Agile Projects

· Promote Agile mindset & practices

Communication & Transparency

· Leadership tools & techniques

· Face-to-face communication

· Information radiators & social media

· Low-tech, high-touch

Stakeholder Engagement

· Involving the right stakeholders

· Methods of stakeholder engagement

Agile Team Dynamics

· Agile team structure & size

· Agile team culture

· Benefits of Agile teams

· Agile team development & learning

Emotional Intelligence & Conflict

· Emotional Intelligence (conflict, negotiation, etc.)

· Levels of conflict

· Brainstorming, workshops, decision spectrum, Gulf of Evaluation

· Red Zone / Green Zone

· Motivation in Agile

· Success & failure

7 – Product (19%)

Backlog clarification and refinement

· User Stories – define clearly (“As a... I want to... to be able to...”)

· 3 Cs – Card, Conversation, Confirmation

· INVEST – Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable

· Complex and Compound Stories – including handling high-uncertainty stories

· Assigning Story Points – relative effort estimation (Fibonacci, T-shirt sizing, Wideband Delphi)

· Collaboration Games – engaging ways to refine and prioritize backlog items

· Agile modeling

· Agile Planning – linking refinement to sprint and release planning

· From backlog to delivery

Manage Increments

· Define Value

· Early Value Delivery – delivering usable increments often

· Value-Driven Delivery – prioritize high-value features first

· Cost of Change – why early delivery and feedback matter

· Financial metrics

· Agile Contracting

· Defects / Cost of Defects – early detection saves effort

· Earned Value Management

· Risk Management – identify, track, and mitigate risks throughout delivery, including risks flagged during backlog refinement or arising during the sprint

· Spikes – time-boxed research to reduce uncertainty in complex stories

Product value, alignment and governance

· Lead vs lag metric

· Regulatory compliance

· Constructive Cost Model (CoCoMo) – contrast traditional vs. Agile estimation

· Agile Charter – align goals and sustainable delivery

8 – Delivery (28%)

Flow Fundamentals

· Kanban / Taskboards

· Managing Team Capacity & Flow

· WIP Limits & Upper Limits

· Timeboxing

· Parkinson’s Law

Forecasting & Predictability

· Ideal vs Real Time

· Lead Time & Cycle Time

· Little’s Law – through put

Measuring Delivery

· Velocity chart

· Burn-Up / Burn-Down Charts

· Variances & Trend Analysis

· Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)

· Bottlenecks

Technical Testing and Quality Practises

· Unit testing

· Exploratory testing

· Integration testing

· Acceptance testing

· Regression testing

· Automated testing

· Scripted testing

· A/B testing (split testing)

· Test Driven development

Sustainable Delivery & Improvement

· Technical Debt (deep dive) Refactoring

· Risks (risk adjusted backlog and Spikes which we talked about, risk durn down chart

· Continuous Improvement

· Retrospectives – General

· Pre-Mortem

· Fishbone Diagram

· Control limits

· Kaizen

· Value Stream Map

· KPIs

· Retrospective details

9- Final Recap

10- Practice Test