PMP Certification Agile Practice Guide 2021 Course; PMP Prep

Learn the agile mindset, the manifesto values, and lean methods; contrast definable work with uncertain work, and choose predictive or agile life cycles to maximize value.

Apply the 12 agile principles to the Agile Manifesto, delivering value early and continuously, welcoming change, delivering working software, and fostering collaboration, simplicity, technical excellence, and self-organizing teams.

Explore Agile as a mindset and umbrella for frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, emphasizing value and small batch sizes, with two adoption paths: formal implementation or tailored project practices.

Kanban sits at the intersection of Lean and Agile, offering a flexible workflow management method for delivering value, continuous improvement, capacity planning, and prioritization across departments.

Explore the uncertainty and complexity model, distinguishing simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic domains and recommending predictive methods for simple tasks and adaptive, incremental approaches for complex and chaotic scenarios.

Explore iterative and incremental approaches through Scrum, applying agile practices like reprioritization, sprint backlog updates, daily scrums, 2–4 week deliverables, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for evolving projects.

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Explore the four project life cycles: predictive, iterative, incremental, and agile, and how hybrid approaches blend them to deliver frequent delivery, quick feedback, and customer value.

Plot lifecycles on a matrix of delivery frequency and change, noting predictive as low on both, incremental as frequent, iterative as high change, and agile as high on both.

Compare planning approaches across project lifecycles, from predictive upfront planning to agile rolling wave planning. Observe how iterative and incremental work leverages prototypes, proofs, and reviews to update plans.

Explore the characteristics of predictive, iterative, incremental, and agile life cycles, from linear, low risk execution to Scrum and Kanban practices with timeboxing, backlogs, and on-demand planning.

Projects blend predictive, iterative, incremental, and agile approaches to handle uncertainty, complexity, and risk in hybrid projects.

Hybrid approaches blend predictive, iterative, and agile methods because there is no best approach. Transition gradually, using iterative learning and incremental practices, and mix Scrum, Kanban, and XP for outcomes.

Learn how servant leadership creates an agile environment by prioritizing the team, removing impediments, and guiding the agile mindset, the project manager's role, and iterative and incremental delivery.

Agile environments reframe the project manager as a servant leader, splitting duties into product owner, facilitator, and team member roles; large initiatives may require continued project manager coordination.

Understand agile team attributes and composition, including cross-functional, self-managing groups of 3–9 members, co-located or virtual, using swarm or mob techniques to optimize the flow of value.

Explore agile team structures and skills, highlighting t-shaped generalizing specialists versus eye-shaped experts, and examine co-located, distributed, and dispersed team setups, workspaces, and virtual collaboration tools.

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Explore how agile teams establish a team charter with norms, a project vision, and working agreements, guiding backlog planning, daily standups, and successful delivery.

Explore iteration planning within Scrum events, focusing on capacity-based planning, story size, and just-in-time planning to determine how many stories fit a sprint while delivering value iteratively.

Master 15-minute daily stand-up as an inspect-and-adapt agile ritual, using a Kanban board and facilitator to cover questions—what did I complete, what will I do next, and what impediments exist.

Learn how iteration reviews in Agile, Scrum sprint reviews and Kanban demos, enable teams to demonstrate completed work, gather stakeholder feedback, and adapt the backlog for faster, frequent product delivery.

Time-boxed retrospectives empower agile teams to inspect and adapt processes, reflect on work, and identify small, prioritized improvements for future iterations.

Explore agile technical practices from XP, including spikes for timebox research, multi level testing with automation, TDD and ATDD, and continuous integration to boost quality and delivery.

Learn how burn down and burn up charts measure agile progress by iteration. Use these tools to track scope changes, replan work, and monitor project and iteration performance.

Velocity in agile measures amount of work completed in a sprint by summing backlog items expressed as story points, reflecting outputs over business value to estimate duration from remaining work.

Explore organizational considerations for agile adoption, including change management, culture, procurement, and agile projects, and highlight how accelerated delivery and ROI shape customer acceptance.

Explains how organizational culture shapes agile adoption, from lean startup experimentation to predictive environments, emphasizing a safe, honest, transparent setting for teams to reflect, learn, and tailor techniques.

Apply agile contracting techniques that prioritize collaboration and value delivery through a multi-tiered structure, flexible scope management, and incremental payments for risk and reward.

Lead value-driven agile PMO practices by tailoring governance, training, and tools to projects and customers. Invite engagement, operate as a multi-disciplinary center of excellence, and evolve the organization's agile mindset.

Explore how organizational structures affect agility in an agile context, addressing geography, functionalized structures, project size, and resource allocation, and use agile practices to overcome vendor and coordination challenges.

Explore extreme programming as an agile framework focused on high quality software. It emphasizes practices like pair programming, code reviews, and test-first development with frequent releases.

Explore Crystal and Scrum ban, two agile methodologies emphasizing people, lightweight processes, flexible application, and color-weight scaling from crystal clear to maroon.

Scrum ban blends Scrum and Kanban to manage product work with small sprints, Kanban visualization, and work in progress limits, plus daily meetings and on-demand planning.

Explore feature driven development and dsdm, focusing on customer valued functionality and delivering tangible software in iterative increments via modeling, feature lists, and build by feature.

Dsdm, an agile framework, fixes cost, time, and quality upfront and uses Moscow prioritization and timeboxing. It emphasizes iterative, incremental delivery, continuous user involvement, collaboration, early testing, and transparent progress.

Explore AUP, a simplified, agile approach to developing business applications, featuring accelerated iterative cycles and techniques such as test-driven development and agile modeling within seven disciplines.

Explore large scale Scrum, a scaling technique for multiple teams on one product. Less uses a single backlog, a single definition of done, a single sprint, and one product owner.

Explore the scaled agile framework, Safe, which scales agile across the enterprise by integrating agile software development, lean product development, and systems thinking, and learn its ten principles.

Discover disciplined agile delivery (DAD) as a toolkit blending Scrum, Lean, XP, and more to tailor enterprise solutions, emphasizing people, six life cycles, full delivery, and consumable solutions.

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