PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) Course Content
The PMI ACP Certification course curriculum is structured to streamline the learning process by a team of experts. You can find the complete course details in below-mentioned modules:
Course Curriculum
Module 1: PMI ACP Course introduction
- In this module you will explore the introduction to PMI ACP, key objectives, specific requirements, etc.
Module 2: Agile Principles and Mindset
- Agile Principles and Mindset
- Introduction to Agile
- Agile Engineering Practices
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile Manifesto Explained
- Principles of Agile Manifesto
- Applying the Principles of Agile Manifesto Agile Core Principles and Practices
- Benefits of Agile
- Project Life Cycle Characteristics
Module 3: Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder management
- Understanding stakeholder needs
- Project CharterAgile wireframes
- Story card information
- Agile story card maps
- Community and stakeholder values
- Social media communication
- Information radiators
- Burnup and burndown charts
- Agile modelling
- Active listening
- Agile facilitation methods
- Agilenegotaiitaiton and conflict management
Module 4: Value Driven Delivery
- Value-Driven Delivery
- Quantifying Customer Value
- Time Value of Money
- Time Value of Money
- The Financial Feasibility of Projects
- Return on Investment ROI
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Payback Period
- Payback Period: Example
- Prioritization of Functional Requirements
- MoSCoW
- Kano Model
- Relative Weighting
- Prioritization of Non-Functional Requirements
- Risk Management in Agile
- Agile compliance
- Incremental delivery
- Earned value management and metrics
- Agile contracts, T and M contracts,
- Fixed price and fixed scope contract
- Rolling agile contracts
- summary
Module 5:Team Performance
- Team performance
- Features and composition of agile teams
- Stages of agile team formation
- High performance teams
- Generalizing specialistsTeam responsibility
- Self organization
- Agile leadership, best practices of agile leadership
- Management vs leadership
- Servant leadership
- Agile coaching
- Agile emotional intelligence
- Maslow’s Theory
- Frederick Herzberg’s Theory
- McClelland’s Theory
- Boehm’s Theory
- Co-Located Teams
- Distributed Teams
- Co-Located vs. Distributed Teams
- Osmotic CommunicationTeam Collaboration and Coordination
- Collaboration Technology
- Team Velocity
- Agile Tools
Module 6: Adaptive planning
- Introduction to Adaptive planning
- Aligning Agile projects
- Time boxing
- Agile estimation
- Story and value points
- Ideal days
- Wideband Delphi technique
- Planning poker
- Affinity estimation
- Project size estimation
- Release and iteration plan
- Types of iterationIteration lifecycle
- Agile product roadmap
- Velocity variations
- Sprint reviews
- Sprint retrospectives
Module 7: Problem detection and resolution
- Agile problem detection techniques
- Fishbone diagram
- Five Why techniques
- Control charts
- Kanban progress
- Managing constraints
- Little’s law
- Agile problem solving
- Metrics and measures
- Baseline metrics
- Variance and trend analysis
- Risk management lifecycle
- Risk logRisk burndown chart
- Spike
- Agile failure modes
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Module 8: Continuous improvement
- Continuous improvement
- Kaizen
- Lean
- Five step process to becoming lean
- Value stream mapping
- Agile retrospectives
- Cargo smells
- Brainstorming techniques
- Process analysis techniques
- Agile process tailoring
- Quality in agile
- Best practices for quality in agile,
- Best practices one verification and validation
- Best practices two exploratory testing
- Best practices three usability testing
- Best practice for four driven development
- Test driven development advantages
- Testing pyramid and quadrant
- Agile flowchart
Module 9: Conclusion
- Summarize all the points discussed.