The Ultimate Agile PMI-ACP Prep Course (28 PDUs)

Explore the agile 12 clarifying principles that refine the agile manifesto, emphasizing customer collaboration, early and continuous delivery of valuable software, welcoming changing requirements, frequent working software, and face-to-face communication.

Explore how agile addresses complex knowledge work by balancing definable and high-uncertainty projects, using incremental delivery and short feedback loops to reduce risk.

Explore how servant leadership drives agile teams, creating an environment of transparency, collaboration, and growth, while removing blockers and enabling quick feedback and shared accountability.

Refine the backlog with the product owner to align with technical dependencies and customer value, size stories, and plan upcoming sprints using sprint planning, velocity, retrospectives, and reviews.

Charter the project and the team in agile by defining sponsor, product owner, scope, funding, milestones, and team agreements for the Harmony web app.

Explore key financial measures for product KPIs, including net present value, internal rate of return, ROI, payback period, and benefit to cost ratios, with practical prioritization tips.

Create a high level model of the environment to map current and future states, guiding the product backlog and stakeholder alignment with process flow chart, context diagram, and storyboard.

Explore design thinking and the double diamond framework, diverging to brainstorm ideas, converging to define root causes, then diverging to generate solutions before converging on core backlog items.

Benchmark against similar apps, websites, or classes to generate product backlog ideas. Document current processes with a flow map, collect data, implement changes, and iterate to improve outcomes.

Explore various acceptance criteria approaches, align with the definition of ready, and apply simple steps, use cases, user stories, bdd, prototypes, and test-driven development.

Prioritize features with cost-benefit analysis and a prioritization matrix. Use MoSCoW, WIP limits, and multi-voting to reveal unanimity, majority, or plurality.

Use invest to craft independent, valuable, estimable, small, and testable user stories that deliver usable vertical slices and are negotiable by the product owner for sprint and customer value.

Identify and respond to risk by classifying threats and opportunities, then apply strategies like avoid, escalate, transfer, mitigate, exploit, share, enhance, or accept.

Learn to create a risk adjusted backlog by incorporating risk responses—mitigation, transfer, escalation, and sharing—into the product and sprint backlogs, prioritized by value and cost using a tornado chart.

Track project risk with a risk burndown chart for risk cards and mitigations, display the remaining risk on an information radiator, and keep stakeholders informed through regular retrospectives.

Communicate the vision to align the team with the product backlog, roadmap, and metrics. Show the vision on a page with features and sizing to guide sprint planning and feedback.

Plan the next two sprints by refining user stories to the definition of ready with acceptance criteria and rough estimates. Align the sprint backlog with priorities and velocity.

Match the team's velocity by aligning sprint work to the average velocity, sustain a steady flow, and use Kanban insights to size similar stories and reduce delays.

Explore how to organize a Jira sprint backlog with epics and user stories, estimate with story points, set sprint goals, and start a two week sprint using a Kanban board.

Explore the daily stand-up and timeboxing in agile, updating Kanban board items, resolving blockers with a servant-leader scrum master, and time-boxed ceremonies including retrospectives.

Master facilitation and meeting management to guide teams toward timely, well-informed decisions. Learn to run workshops, ensure participation, manage conflicts, and assign follow-up actions for agile projects.

Explore Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from physiological needs to self-actualization, and how meeting safety and belonging boosts teams toward higher performance and efficiency.

Explore Parkinson's law and student syndrome, and apply agile practices—daily stand-ups, visible wall, pairing—to prevent delays and create value.

Measure defects using first pass yield to track first-time throughput, reduce rework, and cut the cost of quality by addressing defects early in the process.

Adapt the product backlog and roadmap by reprioritizing in response to new stakeholder ideas, regulatory shifts, and technical findings, then forecast sprint velocity and deliver increments that drive OKRs.

Explore extreme programming practices, including planning game and open workspace collaboration, with co-located teams, continuous integration, collective code ownership, and pair programming with automated tests.

Master the planning game in XP and rolling wave planning. Use story cards, velocity, and short iterations to maximize software value and steer releases.

Implement Kanban by defining start and end points, mapping the value stream, standardizing work types, and using a card wall with work in progress limits to optimize flow.

Explore Kanban from the inside, detailing foundational principles like starting with what you do now, mapping the current process, and evolving through incremental changes with visual management and WIP limits.

Design by feature guides chief programmers to select features and form a feature team, then run domain walkthroughs, develop sequence diagrams, refine the object model, and finalize the design package.