Course Description

This accelerated-learning course focuses on speeding up participants’ preparation time and significantly improve their chance to acquire PMI-ACP®. Participants will benefit from understanding the Agile concepts and in improving their performance at work.

The approach of this training workshop focuses on shifting from memorizing to internalizing concepts though real life example and scenarios. This allows participants to improve their chances to pass the exam and to practice the Agile Mindset and principles at work.

Duration: 21 hours

What Benefits will participants realize?

• Become knowledgeable of Agile vocabulary and concepts to prepare you to pass the PMI-ACP exam.
• Practice PMI-ACP sample exam and learn how to study and answer exam questions.
• Learn the approach of practicing agile principles and values to deliver business results.
• Explore how to enable the team to be high performers and deliver results consistently
• Apply agile coaching strategies to guide team members to be creative and self-organized.
• Learn how to overcome challenges in applying agile principles.
• Shift from traditional leadership style to “servant” Leadership style, and internalize the mindset of what it means to be servant leader.
• Understand the value of Agile principles; such as Scrum, TDD, Kanban, and XP.
• Learn when and how to apply value stream analysis to improve project delivery.
• Create an environment of trust and transparency within the team by practicing experimental concept and promoting Information Radiator to keep team members informed.

Detail Outline

Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset

• Understand the agile mindset, values and principles, and learn how promote them with customer and team.
• Promote common understanding and common terminology of the agile values and principles with stakeholders.
• Practice strategies to enhance transparency and trust by applying high visible information radiators to show progress.
• Learn how to create safe and secure environment by allowing team members to experiment and make mistakes from which they learn to improve results.
• Enable creativity in others by encouraging them to take challenging leadership role and by getting them to collaborate and share knowledge with others to reduce risks and bottlenecks.
• Understand what it means to embrace the role of “servant” leader so that team members will perform to their highest capacity.

Domain II. Value-Driven Delivery

• Understand how to define deliverables that could be incrementally produced so that they maximize the value to stakeholders.
• Gain consensus on requirements and their acceptance criteria that would deliver value.
• Explore how to plan and deliver small releases by organizing them into minimally marketable features/minimally viable products to allow for early delivery.
• Understand how to review increments frequently with key stakeholders to solicit respond to risk early, to reduce cost, and to deliver business value.
• Understand how to collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize and optimize deliverable values.
• Learn how to re-prioritize requirements to adopt to changes and to stakeholders’ needs, while maximizing delivery value.
• Learn how to develop backlogs that maximize total value proposition while reducing risk.

Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement

• Apply periodic review to get team members understand stakeholders’ expectations, and promote knowledge sharing early in the project and throughout project implementation.
• Collaborate and engage with stakeholders to assess changes that deliver value.
• Promote group decision making by consulting with stakeholders and valuing their ideas, and act decisively.
• Establish a shared vision of product and project delivery, and maintain a common understanding on project success criteria.
• Communicate project progress, risk, and impediments to assist stakeholders to make informed decisions.

Domain IV. Team Performance

• Explore strategies to create a collaborative and trusting environment to allow team members to self-organize so that they are empowered to resolve conflicts and cultivate high performance.
• Learn to guide team members to become generalizing specialists to improve team effectiveness and performance.
• Practice approaches to understand what get team members motivated to keep them productive.
• Use co-location and collaboration strategies and tools to improve stakeholders’ communication.
• Communicate project visions to align team members’ deliverables with project objectives.

Domain V. Adaptive Planning

• Develop planning activities and make it visible to promote transparency and clarity.
• Use Rolling Wave planning and progressive elaboration for release and iteration.
• Apply strategies to understand and manage stakeholders’ expectations through commitment.
• Adapt planning strategy to manage changes in requirements, schedule, budget, and priorities, while taking into account stakeholders’ feedback to maximize the delivery of business value.
• Develop the estimation of scope, schedule, and cost range estimates needed to deliver the project.

Domain VII. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)

• Apply frequent retrospectives to get team to improve performance and project delivery, consistently.
• Improve product value through incremental delivery and continuous feedback.
• Perform value stream analysis on existing process to remove waste and improve project delivery.

Who Should Attend

This training course is designed for individuals who want to apply agile principles to improve project delivery, or who want to apply for the PMI-ACP exam certification. This may include project managers, software engineer and IT leaders.