Leading Your Agile Team and Project

Explore agile concepts and the mindset essential for agile project leadership. Understand agile as a framework, tool set, and basics for the ACP track.

Explore how the PMBOK guide and agile coexist, with adaptive planning, iterative work, and the blend of predictive and agile life cycles within the project management body of knowledge.

Learn the spectrum from predictive to adaptive methodologies, including incremental, iterative, and hybrid life cycles, and how to choose the right approach to maximize project value.

Explore the history of agile, from the 2001 Snowbird gathering to the agile manifesto, and how XP, scrum, kanban, DSDM, Crystal, FDD, and lean shape modern software development.

Explore the basics of agile, including iterative and incremental development, embracing change, delivering working software, and the core values plus the 12 guiding principles.

Prioritize requirements with customers and stakeholders to focus on high-value features, using Moscow, planning poker, and Fibonacci-based methods to avoid wasted effort.

Explore core agile terminology, including pairing, swarming, mobbing, and fish bowl window; learn information radiators, dashboards, kanban concepts, WIP limits, and agile roles like agile coach and scrum master.

Understand scrum, the most popular agile framework, with self-organizing cross-functional teams, key roles, artifacts, and time-boxed events that center on transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Extreme programming (XP) as an agile methodology featuring pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration, and 12 practices focused on high quality software, shared understanding, simple design, and team welfare.

Lead your agile team with lean software development principles that eliminate waste, amplify learning, delay decisions, and deliver fast through value stream mapping, Kanban, and empowered, quality-driven teams.

Explore feature driven development fdd as a model driven five-activity agile approach, including develop overall model, build feature list, plan by feature, design by feature, and deliver by feature.

Explore dynamic systems development method (DSDM) as an agile, time-boxed framework using prototyping, modeling, testing, and workshops to deliver iterative, fit-for-purpose solutions with fixed time, cost, quality, and configuration management.

Crystal is a light-weight family of agile methodologies that emphasizes people, interaction, community, and communication. It supports frequent delivery, reflective improvement, and continuous integration.

Learn kanban as a visual, continuous-flow method for agile teams, using wip limits, backlog items, and boards to visualize work from backlog to done and compare with scrum.

Explore scaled agile methods for large projects, including SAFe and disciplined agile delivery, via scrum of scrums and agile release trains, with portfolio and program levels and program increments.

Explore LeSS, large-scale scrum: coordinate multiple teams with one product backlog and a single product owner, synchronize sprints, and conduct an overall retrospective alongside team retrospectives.

Discover how nexus scales scrum by coordinating multiple teams around a single product backlog and a nexus sprint backlog, enabling an integrated increment with a nexus integration team.

Choose the right agile method by matching product type and organization, weighing Scrum, xp, Kanban, and dsdm. Emphasize cross-functional teams, agile coach leadership, product owner, backlog, and information radiators.

Develop a shared agile mindset by coaching stakeholders, practicing transparency and servant leadership, exploring experimentation with spikes, retrospectives, and cross-functional teams to fail forward and improve.