Agile Certified Practitioner
Description
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers. The PMI-ACP® is our fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully than their slower-moving counterparts 75 percent versus 56 percent as shown in our 2015 Pulse of the Profession® report. The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) So it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
Course Outline
I. Agile Framework
- Why Agile Methods?
- Agile vs. Traditional
- Project Management
- Agile Manifesto –Values and Principles
- The Agile Triangle
- Usage Level Roles in Agile
- Variants in Agile (Scrum, XP, Crystal, DSDM, or FDD)
II. Scrum
- What is Scrum
- Scrum Origins
- Scrum Legs/ Three Pillars (Transparency, inspection & adaptation)
- Scrum Cycle Summary
- Scrum team -Roles of Scrum Team (Product Owner, Development Team, Scrum Master)
- Scrum Events/Meetings/Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement)
- Scrum Artifacts (Product Backlog, Product Backlog Item (PBI), Sprint Task, Sprint Burn-down Chart, Product/release Burn Down Chart)
III. Extreme Programming (XP)
- What is XP
- Values Principles
- Practices
- The XP Team
- Roles
- The Theory of Constraints
IV. Other Agile Methods
- Future-Driven Development (FDD)
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
- Crystal
- Lean Software Development
- Kanban Development
V. Tools and Techniques
- Communications
- Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting
- Agile Estimation
- Agile Analysis and Design
- Product Quality
- Soft Skills Negotiation
- Value-based Prioritization
- Risk Management
- Metrics
- Value Stream Analysis
VI. Closing Review
- PMI-ACP Application Review
- Domain Reviews
- Tips and study recommendation on how to pass in a first try
- Recommended reading
- Other key Concept and comprehensive review
