Agile

Bootcamp PMI-ACP® EXAM PREP WORKHOP COACHING AND TRAINING

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360PMO

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B O O T C A M P

3-days intensively collaborative workshop will give you what you need to understand agility and prepare you for PMI-ACP® Exam

Course Description Agile has finally gone mainstream. Today, many organizations are increasingly using agile in managing complex and innovative projects. The demand for agile practitioners is on the increase, and If you are looking to strengthen your competitive advantage and improve your career prospects, this workshop is for you. This workshop is way different than long boring lectures. It is intensively collaborative, engaging and interactive with hands-on team exercises to demonstrate agile values and principles by practically applying agile practices throughout the workshop. Participants will take away with a good understanding of the agile mindset and a handful of agile tools and techniques that they can apply in their real-life projects. Join us and enjoy a great learning environment. Key Highlights

Qualified and experienced Instructors

An Interactive delivery mechanism includes

engaging activities, facilitated discussions,

and interesting lectures

Professionally written course contents,

cover complete PMI Agile Certified

Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® course content

outline using PMI’s recommend reference

material

Various collaborative Agile games and

exercises that allow students to learn the

fundamental concepts behind the individual

topic

Class size is limited to ensure every student

have a better opportunity to interact

What Attendees Get

Certificate of completion, 21 contact hours of

training in agile practices

Three months access to online training

Access to 50+ interactive activities/exercises to

understand the underlying concepts of Agile

values, principles, and practices

Access to 150+ flashcards for quick recall of

basic terms

Multiple choices scenario based full-length

practice exam with detailed explanations

Recommended Resources (reference cards,

posters, study notes/cheat sheet, videos,

articles/blogs)

Who will benefit?

Candidate preparing PMI-ACP Exam

Leaders and Managers

Program and Project Managers

Portfolio Managers, PMO, and Process Leads

Product and Product Line Management

Development, QA, and Infrastructure

Management/Team Leads

Any practitioners who would like to understand

Agile

The PMI-ACP® credential can benefit anyone and not limited to project managers or PMP® credential holders. Individuals who obtain this credential demonstrate a level of professionalism in Agile practices, and this increases professional versatility in both plan-driven and Agile techniques.

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L E A R N I N G

O B J E C T I V E S

What is Agile?

Understanding what, when, why and how of Agile

Know the origin/history of Agile

Demonstrate an understanding of the Agile Manifesto, Values, Principles, and Practices

Recognize that Agile is a mindset

List the benefits of using Agile

Understand the difference between Being Agile vs. Doing Agile

Agile and Traditional Project Management

Identify the differences between traditional structured project management and Agile empirical/adaptive project management

Understand traditional plan-driven and Agile view of managing complex projects

Define Agile project language and the terminologies typically used by Agile projects teams

Agile Teams

Operating model of agile teams

Distinguish different stages of learning using Shu Ha Ri

Explain Tuckman's stages of group development

Understand the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition

Recognize different levels of conflict

Agile Planning & Estimation

Recognize multiple levels of planning in Agile

Describe what is planning onion

Write a product vision statement using a

template

Explain Agile chartering

Describe product roadmap and story mapping

List the key areas of release and iteration

planning

Identify the challenges in estimation

List the reasons and be able to explain the who,

what and how of estimation in traditional

projects

Explain the concept behind the cone of

uncertainty

Describe wideband Delphi and planning poker

Relate affinity estimates

Scrum

Explain the definition of Scrum

List Scrum pillars

Summarize Scrum cycle

Interpret the roles and responsibilities of Scrum

Team

Distinguish Scrum events/ceremonies

Describe Scrum artifacts

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O B J E C T I V E S(C O N T.)

Extreme Programming (XP)

Describe Extreme Programming

Explain the XP lifecycle

Identify key XP concepts including values, principles, and practices

List XP roles and understand the responsibilities fall under each role

Recognize and different naming convention used by XP and Scrum terminologies

Lean

Explain Lean

Compare seven types of manufacturing wastes with software development

List Lean software development principles

Understand Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Explain the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Kanban

Describe the Kanban Model

Identify the importance of work in progress (WIP) limit

Name core Kanban principles

Recognize the Kanban matrix and able to a draw cumulative flow diagram

Identify key differentiators of Kanban and discuss the situations/environment where the application of Kanban can be utilized.

Identify differences between Scrum and Kanban

Product Backlog

Describe what is a product backlog

Outline the qualities of a good product backlog

Recognize the purpose of conducting product backlog grooming sessions

User Stories

Explain the purpose of writing a requirement in user stories format

Understand using the template of writing good user stories

Identify the importance of card, conversation, and confirmation

Attributes of a good user story

Distinguish between epic, story, and theme

Recognize the significant of writing acceptance criteria

Difference between acceptance criteria, acceptance test and definition of done

Develop an understanding of slicing vs. layering

Describe user role modeling and understand the roles, persona, and extreme characters terminologies

Apply the knowledge and write effective user stories

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O B J E C T I V E S (C O N T.)

Agile Testing

Compare traditional & Agile testing

Explain “whole team,” a collaborative approach to effective testing

Explain different Agile testing practices, e.g. test-driven development/test-first development, acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) and exploratory testing

Assess the key learnings from the Agile testing approach

Agile Metrics

Track and show the status of the project/team

Understand the performance metrics used in Agile projects

Explain team velocity and perform necessary calculations to find out average velocity for planning purposes

Explain cycle time

Identify the benefit of cumulative flow diagram (CFD) and be able to interpret the diagrams

Compare the usage of burn-up and burn-down charts

Agile Retrospective

Describe retrospective and its purpose

Describe how to facilitate retrospective

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H O U R / P D U’ s

Completing this course allows you to claim the following category A PDUs. Attendees may be eligible to apply for 21 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications.

Technical Leadership Strategic Total

PMP® 9 4 8 21

PgMP® 9 4 8 21

PMI-SP® 9 0 0 9

PMI-RMP® 9 0 0 9

PfMP® 9 0 0 9

PMI-PBA® 9 0 0 9

Category A PDUs are the activities offered by Registered Education Providers (REPs), chapters, GAC, PMI, and other PMI approved providers The PMI-ACP® exam has changed on 26 March 2018 to harmonize with terminology in the Agile Practice Guide (released in September 2017). The current exam content outline (based on the most recent role delineation study from 2014) will still be relevant. Agile Practice Guide is added to the existing list of reference materials for the exam. This course is fully compliant with all of the above changes

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