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The Agile Certified Practitioner Training Program (PMI-ACP)

Agile Project Management - The PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) Certification Program
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (1,224 ratings)
7,644 students
Created by Sorin Dumitrascu
Last updated 9/2020
English
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • 1. get familiar with the agile approach and learn about agile models and methodologies
  • 2. understand agile project management and the adoption of agile practices
  • 3. apply scrum management principles and manage the scrum process in action
  • 4. practice agile planning and integrate the initiation and requirements gathering activities
  • 5. employ activities specific to agile iterations planning and monitoring
  • 6. understand agile teams and manage agile team performance
  • 7. use tools for active stakeholder engagement
  • 8. manage delivery of value and quality
  • 9. master agile key concept for the certification exam

Requirements

  • This is a complete course, there are no specific prerequisites

Description

The Agile Certified Practitioner Training Program (PMI-ACP) includes a collection of eight courses aligned with the Agile Certified Practitioner exam objectives developed by the Project Management Institute® and Certified ScrumMaster learning objectives:

  1. Agile Project Management Essentials

  2. Adopting an Agile Approach

  3. The Scrum Development Process

  4. Project Initiating and Requirements Gathering

  5. Planning and Monitoring Iterations

  6. Leading an Agile Team

  7. Managing Stakeholder Engagement

  8. Value and Quality in Agile Projects

Section I - Agile Project Management Essentials

And, the first one will be on what is called The Agile Approach. After completing this part, you will be able to: understand the characteristics of agile project management, and why is this important; distinguish between primary and secondary agile value s, and how this might help you in your work; recognize and apply agile principles in your projects; recognize and use the differences between defined and empirical methodologies; and compare the agile triangle of constraints with that of traditional project management. 

The second part of the course will help you understand better the various Agile Models and Methodologies. After completing this part, you will be able to: compare the phases of traditional project management with those of the agile framework, and understand the differences; understand how a project manager's responsibilities will change on an agile project compared with a traditional project; and distinguish between common agile methodologies.

Section 2 - Adopting an Agile Approach

And, it answers to an important question. Would you like to adopt a more agile approach to project management in your company, only you think the change would be too disruptive? Perhaps you believe that Agile is all or nothing, but that's not true. Wise project leaders are able to examine their own situations and determine which agile practices to adopt given the nature of their projects, organizations, and teams.

Guidance on how to take steps towards adopting an agile project management approach for those who currently use a traditional, plan-driven methodology is included. The relevant section discusses some common myths and misconceptions about agile development approaches, identifies factors to consider when deciding whether to adopt agile practices, and explains the general agile practices that a company may want to adopt.   

The course provides project leaders with general guidelines on how to develop an agile way of thinking, one of the first steps in transitioning a team. The course also looks at some guidelines for obtaining buy-in from organizational stakeholders so they also embrace agile practices.

Section 3  - The Scrum Development Process

Scrum is one of the most popular agile methodologies to date, with tools and techniques applicable to more than just software development projects. This course will assist prospective Scrum masters, product owners, and team members with the understanding of core Scrum practices. This includes an outline of the roles and responsibilities of members of the Scrum team, the importance of good communication, and the role of project stakeholders.

The course divides the Scrum development process into three major phases: pre-game, game, and post-game. It describes the activities performed in each phase, but particularly examines the activities and tools of the game phase. Scrum basics covered include the use of product and sprint backlogs, the use of iterative development in the form of sprints, performing daily stand-up meetings, the use of sprint reviews and retrospectives, and using Scrum task boards and burn-down charts for monitoring and reporting project progress.

Section 4 - Project Initiating and Requirements Gathering

It provides a look at the agile approach to planning and tasks that agile teams have adopted from methodologies such as Scrum and XP. The focus is on release planning which is the first of three agile planning levels. It emphasizes the importance of a properly established product vision, developed by the product owner and stakeholders prior to developing the project backlog.

During release planning, this product vision is shared with the development team and discussed in detail to ensure the proper requirements, conditions of satisfaction, and priorities are established. The course then moves into the requirements gathering and analysis phase, with the use of high-level user case scenarios. It finishes with instruction and practice on developing user stories, which have become the choice method for many agile teams for clearly defining customer-centric requirements or features.   

Section 5 - Planning and Monitoring Iterations

This course focuses on the activities performed during the planning and execution of a project iteration, or sprint. During release planning - the previous phase in the overall agile planning process - the team creates an ordered list of project features in the form of the product backlog. Iteration planning is the process of creating an iteration (sprint) backlog that contains more specific detail regarding work items that have been assigned to the upcoming iteration.

An important section of the course will follow the iteration planning process and the creation of the iteration backlog. It also explores how to create a schedule and use principles of buffering. The last part of the course covers key tools and methods used by agile teams to monitor and report project progress, both at the iteration level and at the overall project or release level.

Section 6 - Leading an Agile Team

And, having a good team and quality leadership is key for the success of any project, but in Agile development it is crucial. This course takes a close look at agile teams and team leadership, including the unique skills and roles of the agile project leader and the characteristics of the team as a whole.

You will see how traditional project managers can adopt a new mindset that allows them to thrive in the agile environment, and to take on a coaching, leading, and facilitating role. Leaders must empower their teams to organize themselves, collaborate, and solve problems. This course provides guidance on how to lead a colocated cross-functional team, as well as a distributed team, and how to boost team performance. 

Section 7 - Managing Stakeholder Engagement

This course highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication during agile planning and development projects. It discusses the role of stakeholders and how the ScrumMaster or agile project leader must encourage active involvement to ensure the team has a clear understanding of the project requirements and stakeholder expectations.   

Also addressed are common tools used for knowledge sharing throughout the course of the project, which is essential in order to deliver value and keep everyone informed on the status of the project. This course also covers techniques that encourage participation in the feedback and decision-making cycle of release, iteration, and project closing processes.   

Section 8 - Value and Quality in Agile Projects

This course covers agile techniques and practices that deal with achieving product value and quality, beginning with agile documentation practices and key points to understand about contract types that are most suitable to the agile environment. It proceeds with an overview of agile risk management and the basics of agile Earned Value Management.

Also covered are factors affecting product quality, including agile strategies that promote quality throughout development, and the incorporation of continuous testing as a practice for improving and verifying the expected level of customer value.

Who is your instructor?

My name is Sorin, and I will be your instructor. I am a trainer and project manager with more than 10 years of experience. Before Udemy, I trained hundreds of people in a classroom environment – civil servants, managers, project workers, aid workers and many more. And I managed projects in the fields of justice, corrections, regional development and human resources development.

How will you benefit?

This course is intended for project managers, program managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently participate in agile projects. It is aligned with the Agile Certified Practitioner exam objectives developed by the Project Management Institute® and Certified ScrumMaster learning objectives.

Training videos, examples, exercices and quizzes will help you learn all about the Managing Stakeholder Engagement. And, if you take your time to go through all the learning materials this will entitle you to claim at least 20 PDU’s for the PMI-ACP certification exams and to maintain your PMI certification.

So, thank you for considering this course! Now, go ahead, and hit that "Take This Course" button. And, see you on the inside.

Who this course is for:

  • Intended for project managers, program managers, or anyone who wants to efficiently participate in agile projects.
  • Aligned with the Agile Certified Practitioner exam objectives developed by the Project Management Institute® and Certified ScrumMaster learning objectives
  • Will entitle you to claim 40 PDU’s for the PMI certification exams and to maintain your PMI certification

Course content

13 sections • 237 lectures • 21h 6m total length

  • Preview08:57
  • Preview03:16
  • Preview00:01
  • Overview
    2 questions

  • Preview02:27
  • Defining agile project management
    02:09
  • Predictive, iterative, incremental and agile project life-cycles
    00:40
  • Agile characteristics
    10:13
  • Individuals and Interactions versus Processes and Tools
    00:11
  • Benefits of agile management
    08:31
  • The relationship between Agile Manifesto, Values, Principles and Common Practice
    00:03
  • Primary and secondary agile values
    06:48
  • Why agile values are important
    00:02
  • Agile principles
    14:13
  • Traditional project opportunity for change
    00:08
  • The evolution of agile models
    02:39
  • Defined and empirical models
    09:03
  • The role of the project plan
    05:29
  • Inspection and adjustment
    05:22
  • The agile triangle of constraints
    07:36
  • The agile approach
    10 questions
  • Agile History
    00:12
  • Traditional and agile approaches
    06:49
  • Agile vs Traditional project management
    00:05
  • Traditional and agile project phases
    09:22
  • Agile project management
    14:46
  • Scrum, XP, and Lean
    13:25
  • Other agile methodologies
    06:16
  • Agile models and methodologies
    4 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    00:30
  • Agile project management essentials
    02:21
  • Agile project management essentials
    1 question

  • Preview03:06
  • Common misconceptions about agile
    02:37
  • Combining traditional and agile models
    05:10
  • Contrasting Historical Project Management with Agile Project Management
    00:02
  • Agile documentation
    04:37
  • Identifying Useful Documentation
    00:18
  • Applications for agile
    03:31
  • Agile project planning
    04:31
  • Agile project management
    01:50
  • Understanding agile project management
    4 questions
  • Factors to consider
    01:28
  • Alignment of the agile transition team
    00:06
  • Project type
    06:37
  • Organizational structure and culture
    07:21
  • Agile Pain Points and Troubleshooting Possibilities
    00:01
  • Existing processes and the team
    05:26
  • Industry and customer
    05:59
  • Adopting agile practices
    04:27
  • Application of Agile in PMBOK Knowledge Areas
    00:01
  • When to adopt agile practices
    4 questions
  • General agile practices
    01:55
  • Requirements definition
    06:02
  • Iterative development
    05:27
  • Team and customer communication
    05:24
  • Agile practices for initial adoption
    3 questions
  • Lean principles
    08:02
  • Using additional agile principles
    09:33
  • Developing an agile mindset
    1 question
  • Getting buy-in from stakeholders
    03:05
  • Communicating the need for change
    05:36
  • Explaining benefits
    06:05
  • Agile practices statistics
    00:21
  • Explaining risks
    04:51
  • Getting stakeholders to adopt agile
    3 questions
  • Course project (optional)
    00:33
  • Adopting Agile Management
    00:54
  • Application of Agile in PMBOK Knowledge Areas
    00:01
  • Adopting agile management
    1 question

  • Preview01:26
  • Defining scrum
    06:38
  • The scrum approach
    00:15
  • The product owner
    02:33
  • The scrum master
    02:28
  • The development team
    02:35
  • Agile project team, scrum team, and development team
    00:09
  • The scrum team in practice
    05:54
  • Communicating with stakeholders
    09:47
  • Scrum meetings
    07:39
  • Sprints are recurring processes
    00:10
  • The pre-game phase
    05:01
  • The game phase
    05:10
  • The post-game phase
    04:16
  • A scrum task board on a wall or whiteboard
    00:17
  • Managing a Scrum Project
    9 questions
  • Pre-game planning
    12:46
  • Developing a high-level design
    08:25
  • Sprint planning
    04:34
  • Sample sprint backlog
    00:09
  • Daily standup meetings
    04:20
  • Unit tests and sprint reviews
    04:58
  • Sprint retrospectives and closure
    04:14
  • Burndown charts
    06:15
  • A burndown chart
    00:03
  • Progress charts
    04:18
  • The scrum task board
    01:53
  • Using tracking metrics
    07:37
  • The Scrum Process in Action
    9 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    00:24
  • The scrum development process
    01:28
  • Agile transition roadmap
    00:09
  • The Scrum Development Process
    1 question

  • Preview05:01
  • Benefits of planning
    13:41
  • Initial Backlog Ranked for Changes
    00:02
  • Levels of agile planning
    11:03
  • Roadmap to Value
    00:08
  • Agile planning activities
    12:58
  • Planning an agile project
    05:24
  • Uncertainty and Compelxity Model
    00:01
  • Introduction to Agile Planning
    4 questions
  • Creating a business case
    07:47
  • Relationship between change management and agile
    00:01
  • Elements of a product vision
    10:56
  • Defining project scope
    02:00
  • Developing use cases
    12:28
  • Formatting user stories
    18:20
  • User story and acceptance criteria
    00:11
  • Initiating and Scoping an Agile Project
    5 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    01:11
  • Project Initiating and Requirements Gathering
    04:59
  • Initiation and Requirements Gathering
    1 question

  • Preview05:58
  • Introduction to iteration planning
    08:01
  • Iteration planning activities
    11:41
  • Iterative Life Cycle
    00:03
  • Key outputs
    04:22
  • Creating the user backlog and splitting large stories
    07:03
  • Breaking stories into tasks
    05:38
  • Estimating tasks
    06:06
  • Types of scheduling buffers
    10:11
  • Calculating a project buffer
    17:00
  • Iteration planning for complex projects
    19:55
  • Iterative Planning and Estimating
    9 questions
  • Monitoring agile projects
    06:12
  • Monitoring tools
    17:47
  • Updating release plans
    11:21
  • Interpreting project release information
    19:31
  • Monitoring and Reporting Project Work
    4 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    00:35
  • Planning and monitoring iterations
    05:27
  • Estimates and Release Planning
    1 question

  • Preview04:39
  • The role of project leader
    06:13
  • Agile Team Roles
    00:00
  • The mindset of an agile project leader
    19:56
  • Characteristics of an agile team
    19:23
  • Attributes of Successful Agile Teams
    00:01
  • Causes of problems in agile teams
    09:38
  • Email versus face-to-face conversation
    00:08
  • Strategies for overcoming challenges
    14:22
  • The Basics of Agile Teams
    5 questions
  • Agile coaching
    12:10
  • Expect high performance
    04:45
  • Identify and fix problems
    06:19
  • Energize team members
    05:02
  • Managing Agile Team Performance
    4 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    00:51
  • Leading an Agile Team
    04:17
  • Leading an Agile Team
    1 question

  • Preview06:27
  • Stakeholder types and responsibilities
    09:33
  • Strategies for stakeholder engagement
    15:26
  • The APM model
    01:53
  • Initiation phase
    05:45
  • Release planning phase
    07:56
  • Development phase
    04:24
  • Review and adapt phase
    03:56
  • Close phase
    04:05
  • Keeping Stakeholders Actively Involved
    8 questions
  • Decision framing
    04:11
  • Using a decision gradient
    12:32
  • Knowledge sharing in agile projects
    03:35
  • Documentation
    06:11
  • Assessing Organisational Culture
    00:00
  • Interaction
    04:34
  • Open access to information
    08:29
  • Release and iteration planning
    12:17
  • Iteration reviews and testing
    10:02
  • Tools for Stakeholder Engagement
    8 questions
  • Section project (optional)
    00:24
  • Managing Stakeholder Engagement
    06:02
  • Managing Stakeholder Engagement
    1 question

  • Preview07:20
  • Reasons for documentation
    10:04
  • Quality feedback in an agile project
    00:04
  • Crucial documentation
    05:54
  • Guidelines for documentation
    09:58
  • Fixed-price contracts
    06:37
  • Other contract types
    13:25
  • Risk management practices
    11:28
  • Testing within sprints
    00:07
  • Risk management tools
    11:34
  • Agile Project Risk Management Tools
    00:12
  • Calculating earned value
    04:25
  • Calculating performance
    09:33
  • Determining project health
    15:55
  • Processes Supporting Value Driven Delivery
    10 questions
  • Agile quality processes
    08:49
  • Earned Value in an Agile Context
    00:02
  • Quality principles and practices
    05:26
  • Technical debt
    05:40
  • Refactoring
    03:32
  • Prototyping
    07:01
  • Agile testing
    10:54
  • Improving agile quality
    05:59
  • Processes Supporting Product Quality
    7 questions
  • Section project (overview)
    00:22
  • Ensuring delivery of value and quality in agile projects
    07:13
  • Ensuring delivery of value and quality in agile projects
    1 question

  • Preview02:10
  • Waste Types
    05:51
  • The Kanban Pull System
    06:14
  • Kanban Boards
    05:36
  • Determining Lead Time and Cycle Time
    05:59
  • Process Cycle Efficiency
    06:53
  • Little's Law
    07:17
  • Communicating the Product Vision
    06:03
  • Defining the Agile Team's Physical Space
    06:01
  • Exercise - Key Agile Exam concepts
    05:09
  • Agile Key Exam Concepts
    01:52
  • Agile Key Exam Concepts
    11 questions
  • PMI Certification Info
    00:04

Instructor

Sorin Dumitrascu
Management trainer
Sorin Dumitrascu
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 24,895 Reviews
  • 267,639 Students
  • 123 Courses

Before Udemy, Sorin developed and delivered courses on management, project management, computer literacy, human resources, career development, soft skills for employees and even corrections incidents management. 

Currently working as a consultant and program manager, he is a certified trainer and project manager, holding a master degree in International Relations and Policy Making and a bachelor degree in Law and Public Administration. 

Sorin coordinated during the last 10 years projects  in the areas of rule of law, regional development and human resources.

He has more than 10 years of middle/senior managerial experience within the civil service (justice, corrections, internal affairs, training), private sector (project management, consultancy, training) and NGO (industrial relations, rural development). 

Sorin is also a certified International Computer Driving License (ICDL) tester and trainer for the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions, certified Human Resource Professional and a Public Manager (professional degree). 

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