Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam Prep Qudaibiya, Manama

Course details

Introduction to PMI-ACP® Certification- 

• Knowing PMI®
•  Certification Programs offered by PMI®
•  Value of PMI-ACP®
•  PMI-ACP® Certification Cycle
•  PMI-ACP® Eligibility Requirements
•  PMI-ACP® Exam Application
•  PMI-ACP® Exam Pattern
•  The PMI-ACP® Exam Blueprint
•  PMI ®Contact Information

Agile Project Management - 

•  What is Agility?
•  Traditional/Agile Project Management
•  Key Values for Agile Leaders
•  The Agile Triangle
•  Agile Methodologies
•  APM Framework
•  Envision Phase
•  Speculate Phase
•  Explore Phase
•  Adapt Phase
•  Close Phase

Value Based Prioritization -

• Time Value of Money
•  Return On Investment (ROI)
•  Present Value (PV), Net Present Value (NPV)
•  Key Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
•  Opportunity Cost (OC)
•  Payback Period
•  Prioritization
•  Customer Valued Prioritization
•  Minimally Marketable Feature (MMF)
•  Agile Compliance
•  Agile Business Case Development

Agile Analysis and Design - 

• Agile Chartering
•  Product Roadmap
•  Product Backlog
•  User Story
•  Story Maps
•  Wireframes
•  Personas
•  Agile Modeling
•  Best Practices - Agile Modeling
•  Planning Games / Collaborative Games

Agile Estimation - 

•  Estimation
•  Story Points
•  Relative Sizing
•  Theme and Epic
•  Ideal Day, Ideal Time
•  Planning Poker
•  Wide Band Delphi
•  Wide Affinity Estimating
•  Agile Cost Estimation

Planning, Monitoring and Adapting - 

• Time-Boxing
•  Multiple Levels of Planning
•  Release Planning
•  Iteration Planning
•  Release Plan Vs Iteration Plan
•  Daily Stand up
•  Burn down Chart / Burn up Chart
•  Variance and Trend Analysis
•  Cumulative Flow Diagram
•  Agile Task Board
•  Kanban Board
•  WIP Limits

Product Quality - 

•  Quality in Agile
•  Project and Quality Standard in Agile
•  Key Agile Testing Quadrants
•  Frequent Verification and Validation
•  Test First Development (TFD) / Test Driven Development (TDD)
•  Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
•  Continuous Integration (CI)
•  Refactoring
•  Definition of Done (DoD)
•  Collection Code Ownership
•  Knowledge Sharing
•  Technical Debt

Communication - 

• Agile Communication
• Information Radiator
• Agile Team Space
• Osmotic Communications
•  Collocated Team
• Distributed Team
• Agile Tools
•  Active listening
• Brainstorming
• Feedback Methods

Interpersonal Skills - 

• Emotional Intelligence
•  Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) Framework
•  Goleman Emotional Intelligence Model
•  Collaboration
•  Agile Leadership
•  Adaptive Leadership
•  Servant Leadership
•  Negotiation
•  Conflict Resolution

Agile Risk Management - 

• Risk as Prioritization Factor
•  Risk Management in Agile
•  Risk Adjusted Product Backlog
•  Key Expected Monetary Value
•  Risk Management
•  Risk Burn-down Chart
•  Risk Based Spike

Agile Metrics - 

• Metrics
•  Velocity
•  How Cycle Time
•  Earned Value Management (EVM)
•  Various EVM Terms
•  Earned Value Metrics
•  Key Measuring Metrics
•  Escape Defects

Process Improvement - 

• Value and Non-Value
•  Value Stream Mapping
•  Waste in Software Development
•  Key Retrospectives
•  Control limit for agile projects
•  Control limit for agile projects
•  Process Analysis
•  Process improvements
•  Agile failure modes
• Agile coach failure and success modes
• Agile Process Tailoring
• Shu-Ha-Ri

Knowledge and Skills - Part 1 - 

• Community and Stakeholder Values
•  Building Empowered Teams
•  Building High Performance Team
•  Coaching and Mentoring within Team
•  Key Coaching at Levels
•  Stakeholder Management
•  Team Motivation
•  Self-Assessment
•  Knowledge Sharing
•  Problem solving
•  Facilitation method
•  Participatory Decision Models

Knowledge and Skills - Part 2 - 

• Agile Contracting Methods
•  Vendor Management
•  Globalization, Culture and Team Diversity
•  Principles of System Thinking
•  Incremental Delivery
•  Agile Methods and Approaches
•  Applying New Agile Practices

PMI® Professional & Social Responsibility - 

• How to Ensure Individual Integrity
•  How to Contribute to Project Management Knowledge Base
•  Ethnocentrism
•  Code of Ethics
•  Professional Responsibility
•  Balance stakeholders interest

Updated on 06 August, 2017