A PMI Agile course, specifically the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® training, focuses on equipping individuals with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage projects using agile methodologies. The course covers fundamental agile principles, various frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, and practical aspects of agile project management. It also delves into team dynamics, stakeholder engagement, and techniques for continuous improvement in agile environments.
1. Introduction to agile and project management
This section introduces the Agile Manifesto and its principles, fundamentals of Agile project management, various Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP, and concepts of self-organization and team dynamics.
2. Value-driven delivery
Topics include value-based prioritization, MVP, creating project charters, understanding value drivers, and techniques like story mapping and value stream mapping.
3. Stakeholder engagement
This section covers defining stakeholders, understanding their needs, crafting user stories, creating wireframes, stakeholder management, knowledge sharing, decision models, active listening, conflict resolution, and communication techniques.
4. Team performance
The course addresses team formation stages, building empowering teams, adaptive leadership, emotional intelligence, Agile coaching, and daily stand-ups.
5. Adaptive planning
Topics include Agile planning stages, artifacts, meetings, planning teams, modeling, estimation techniques, and handling project delays.
6. Problem detection and resolution
This section covers risk management, problem detection and resolution techniques, control charts, continuous integration (CI/CD), and risk-based spikes.
7. Continuous improvement (product, process, people)
Topics include integration, testing, experiments, review, retrospective, value stream analysis and mapping, and pre-mortem analysis.
8. Agile tools and technologies
The course explores Agile tools for analysis, design, estimation, metrics, communication, process improvement, product quality, planning, monitoring, risk management, and value-based prioritization.