1 - Introduction to the PMI-ACP® Course and Exam

2 - Agile Principles and Mindset

• Agile project Management Framework:
• • What is Agility
• • Agile Manifesto
• • Agile Principles
• • Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming (XP), Lean
• • Agile leadership
• • Agile process overview

3 - Value-Driven Delivery

• What is Value-driven delivery, how to deliver value early and minimize waste
• Assessing Value - Return on Investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), Internal rate of return (IRR), earned value management, managing risk
• Value Based prioritization – Customer-Valued prioritization, prioritization schemes (Kano analysis, MoSCoW, relative prioritization / ranking
• Delivering incrementally – Minimal Viable Product (MVP), Minimal marketable Feature (MMF), Work In progress (WIP), WIP Limits, Bottlenecks, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
• Contracting in Agile projects
• Verification and validation

4 - Stakeholder Engagement

• Identifying project stakeholders
• Managing stakeholder engagement
• Establishing a shared vision – Agile chartering, Definition of "Done" (DoD), Agile modelling, wireframes, personas
• Communication Management – face to face communication, two-way communication, knowledge sharing, information radiators, social media
• Working collaboratively – workshops, brainstorming, collaboration games
• Interpersonal skills for Agile success – emotional intelligence, active listening, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory decision making

5 - Team Performance

• Agile team roles
• High-performing Agile teams – stages of team development
• Adaptive leadership
• Creating collaborative team spaces – co-located teams, osmotic communication, distributed teams
• Tracking team performance in Agile teams – burn charts, velocity

6 - Adaptive Planning

• Defining adaptive planning
• Principles of Agile planning
• Tools for sizing and estimating
• Releases and Iterations planning

7 - Problem Detection аnd Resolution

• How problems impact a project
• Detecting problems – lead time and cycle time, defects, variance analysis, trend analysis, control limits
• Managing projects threats and issues – risk-adjusted backlog, risk severity, risk burndown graphs
• Solving problems

8 - Continuous Improvement

• Multiple levels of improvement – processes, product, people
• Implementing continuous process improvement – process tailoring, systems thinking, process analysis, value stream mapping, project pre-mortems
• Working towards continuous product improvement – product feedback loops and learning cycle
• Leading continuous people improvement – retrospectives, team self-assessments

9 - PMI-ACP® Exam Preparation

• PMI-ACP® Exam Particulars Overview
• PMI-ACP® Exam Particulars
• PMI-ACP® Candidate Requirements
• PMI-ACP® Candidate Fees
• PMI-ACP® Exam Application Process