
Agile is a philosophy and mindset for rapid adaptation, self-organizing, cross-functional teams, and timeboxed, evolving incremental delivery that maximizes customer value.
Discover issues with traditional methodologies in project management, such as changing requirements, rigid change control, and inaccurate estimates, and learn why Agile emerged to address them.
Explore agile values and principles, including working software as the primary measure, sustainable pace, technical excellence, simplicity, self-organizing teams, and regular retrospectives.
Kanban visualizes the workflow with cards on a board, limits work in progress, and promotes incremental change and Kaizen, helping teams reveal bottlenecks and improve flow.
Discover agile project chartering, contrast agile and traditional charters, and craft a lightweight one-page charter focused on vision, benefits, done criteria, and collaboration through elevator statements.
Explore agile project initiation, justify ROI with payback, PV, NPV, and IRR, and craft lightweight contracts and agile charters to align purpose and value.
In agile projects with fixed cost and schedule, prioritize by business value and reprioritize to deliver value; high/medium/low scales may misalign with customer priorities, prompting alternative prioritization techniques.
Prioritize the product backlog by customer value, from highest to lowest, and collaborate with the customer to groom and update it for each time box, delivering the highest value items.
Explore Kano analysis to prioritize features by customer value, mapping preferences into dissatisfiers, satisfiers, delighters, and indifferent to drive product satisfaction.
Explain MMF, MVP, and MMP, showing how to deliver value with minimal features, test learning, and accelerate time-to-market.
Identify and prioritize work items by business value and ROI to deliver early customer value, balancing cost, dependencies, and risk through a continuous, risk-adjusted backlog.
Rank features by value to deliver the minimal marketable product within cost and time constraints. Use a virtual cutoff to drop lower-value items and adjust the backlog accordingly.
Learn how user stories fuel agile backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and drive value through card-conversation-confirmation, using INVEST and collaboration with product owners.
Learn how story maps visualize the end-to-end user experience, using a backbone and walking skeleton to drive a product roadmap and MMP in agile releases.
Progressive elaboration drives agile life cycles by continuously refining the project plan as information accumulates, enabling backlog refinement, rolling wave planning, and just-in-time estimates with frequent stakeholder feedback.
Explore agile discovery, progressive elaboration, and backlog refinement that guide evolving requirements and value-driven planning. Apply rolling wave planning and the plan-do-check-act learning cycle to learn and adapt.
Learn agile sizing and estimation through top-down, rolling wave planning, refining estimates in ranges as information unfolds, with the agile team owning estimation to support ROI and project decisions.
Master the agile estimation technique of t-shirt sizing, a non-numerical, relative method using XS to XXL for initial project estimates, with teams sizing stories through progressive elaboration.
Explore wideband delphi, a consensus-based estimation method using anonymous rounds and collaborative input from team members, SMEs, the product owner, and stakeholders to improve estimates.
Explore how agile estimation handles uncertainty with top-down ranges and iterative refinement. Compare story points, ideal time, and sizing methods like t-shirt sizing, planning poker, and wideband Delphi.
Explore how agile planning occurs across product vision, product planning, release and iteration levels, and learn velocity and definition of done to guide releases.
Learn how agile planning uses adaptive planning and prototypes to refine uncertain requirements through iterative cycles, backlog refinement, and release and iteration planning.
Deliver value early by creating successive increments that add functionality, test and review to reduce risk and cost of change, and adapt to changing requirements.
Explore architectural spikes as timeboxed experiments that model and prototype options to determine feasibility and the best approach before building, addressing a single clear question to guide design decisions.
Explore agile planning that emphasizes adaptability, incremental delivery, and prototyping to align with stakeholders, and learn about delivering minimum marketable product first, iterations, releases, timeboxing, velocity, DoD, and agile accounting.
Master agile requirements analysis by ensuring requirements are complete, clear, concise, and testable, and by using agile tools and techniques to validate customer needs.
Adopt low-tech-high-touch tools like task boards, flip charts, and user story stickies to maximize visibility and engage all stakeholders in agile projects.
Why PMI-ACP?
As most projects nowadays are approached using Agile methodologies, everyone wants to practice Agile and be a certified Agile practitioner. But the World has also realized that “one size does not fit all”, That's why PMI introduced "PMI-ACP" to help you perform a fit-gap analysis and use practices from various agile methodologies. The PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® is a well-recognized certification globally and is the only certification worldwide that encompasses the practices from various Agile methodologies like Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and more.
What Makes This Course Special?
PMI recommends more than 10 books to read and more than 100 topics as a reference list to learn to get ready for the ACP exam. Most courses that we have seen talk about those topics in random order or in an order that hardly makes any sense.
In this course, we spent a lot of time putting the topics in order that would easily make sense to everyone. Unlike many courses, we don't believe that Agile is just a project management methodology. Agile is a mindset that should be applied to both the project management and the product development life cycles. These concepts made it easy to put a solid outline of this course that would map to the project management life cycle recommended by PMI from Initiation to Planning, Execution, and Monitoring and Controlling and also to product development life cycle from requirements gathering to design, implementation and testing. And this is what we are to teach you in this course.
This course is mapped to all domains in the PMI-ACP Exam Content Outline, including Agile Principles and Mindset, Value-Driven Delivery, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Performance, Adaptive Planning, Problem Detection and Resolution, and Continuous Improvement.
This course is aligned with the updated PMI-ACP Exam Content Outline and the PMI Agile Practice Guide.
We use various case studies, real life project examples & situations, and terminology to solidify understanding of how to answer behavioral-based PMI-ACP® exam questions.
You will be required to solve a quiz at the end of each section in addition to a simulation exam at the end of this course.
This course provides you with the 21 contact hours of agile project management education, required to apply for the PMI-ACP exam.
What will The Students Learn In This Course?
This course is designed for those planning to take the PMI-ACP Certification exam as well as those interested in learning more about Agile project management. This course is specifically designed with every practitioner in mind.
The practical ability to use Agile techniques on projects, and during the exam;
An understanding of key concepts, terms, and tools;
Proven, expert exam-taking skills.
Even if you're not planning to take the PMI-ACP exam soon, or if you haven't practiced Agile yet in your organization, still, this course is a great resource for everyone to learn and apply Agile best practices in your day to day job.
So, if you are involved in Agile in any capacity, this certification is going to help you achieve new milestones in your career easily. Though previously Agile methodologies were associated with the IT industry, now it is finding applications in other industries and areas like electrical and electronics, product development, construction, and so on. This has further enhanced the value of the PMI-ACP certification.
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