PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) | 3-Days

Domain 2 – Value-Driven Delivery:

Prioritization:

Task 13: Elicit and prioritize relevant non-functional requirements (such as operations and security) by considering the environment in which the solution will be used in order to minimize the probability of failure

Task 14: Elicit and prioritize relevant non-functional requirements (such as operations and security) by considering the environment in which the solution will be used in order to minimize the probability of failure

Domain 3 – Stakeholder Engagement:

Understand Stakeholder Needs:

Task 1: Identify and engage effective and empowered business stakeholder(s) through periodic reviews in order to ensure that the team is knowledgeable about stakeholders’ interests, needs, and expectations.

Task 2: Identify and engage all stakeholders (current and future) by promoting knowledge sharing early and throughout the project to ensure the unimpeded flow of information and value throughout the lifespan of the project.

Ensure Stakeholder Involvement:

Task 3: Establish stakeholder relationships by forming a working agreement among key stakeholders in order to promote participation and effective collaboration.

Task 4: Establish stakeholder relationships by forming a working agreement among key stakeholders in order to promote participation and effective collaboration.

Task 5: Establish collaborative behaviors among the members of the organization by fostering group decision-making and conflict resolution in order to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions.

Manage Stakeholder Expectations:

Task 6: Establish a shared vision of the various project increments (products, deliverables, releases, iterations) by developing a high-level vision and supporting objectives in order to align stakeholders’ expectations and build trust.

Task 7: Establish and maintain a shared understanding of success criteria, deliverables, and acceptable trade-offs by facilitating awareness among stakeholders in order to align expectations and build trust

Task 8: Provide transparency regarding work status by communicating team progress, work quality, impediments, and risks in order to help the primary stakeholders make informed decisions.

Task 9: Provide forecasts at a level of detail that balances the need for certainty and the benefits of adaptability in order to allow stakeholders to plan effectively.

Domain 4 – Team Performance:

Team Formation:

Task 1: Cooperate with the other team members to devise ground rules and internal processes in order to foster team coherence and strengthen team members’ commitment to shared outcomes.

Task 2: Help create a team that has the interpersonal and technical skills needed to achieve all known project objectives in order to create business value with minimal delay.

Team Empowerment:

Task 3:  Encourage team members to become generalizing specialists in order to reduce team size and bottlenecks and to create a high-performing cross-functional team.

Task 4: Contribute to self-organizing the work by empowering others and encouraging emerging leaders in order to produce effective solutions

Task 5: Contribute to self-organizing the work by empowering others and encouraging emerging leaders in order to produce effective solutions and manage complexity.

Team Collaboration & Commitment:

Task 6: Facilitate close communication within the team and with appropriate external stakeholders through co-location or the use of collaboration tools in order to reduce miscommunication and rework.

Task 7: Reduce distractions in order to establish a predictable outcome and optimize the value delivered.

Task 8: Participate in aligning project and team goals by sharing project vision in order to ensure the team understands how their objectives fit into the overall goals of the project.

Task 9: Encourage the team to measure its velocity by tracking and measuring actual performance in previous iterations or releases in order for members to gain a better understanding of their capacity and create more accurate forecasts.

Domain 5 – Adaptive Planning:

Levels of Planning:

Task 1: Plan at multiple levels (strategic, release, iteration, daily) creating appropriate detail by using rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration to balance the predictability of outcomes with the ability to exploit opportunities.

Task 2: Make planning activities visible and transparent by encouraging the participation of key stakeholders and publishing planning results in order to increase commitment levels and reduce uncertainty.

Task 3: As the project unfolds, set and manage stakeholder expectations by making increasingly specific levels of commitments in order to ensure a common understanding of the expected deliverables.

Adaptation:

Task 4: Adapt the cadence and the planning process based on results of periodic retrospectives about characteristics and/or the size/complexity/criticality of the project deliverables in order to maximize the value.

Task 5: Inspect and adapt the project plan to reflect changes in requirements, schedule, budget, and shifting priorities based on team learning, delivery experience, stakeholder feedback, and defects in order to maximize the business value delivered.

Agile Sizing and Estimation

Task 6: Size items by using progressive elaboration techniques in order to determine likely project size independent of team velocity and external variables.

Task 7: Adjust capacity by incorporating maintenance and operations demands and other factors in order to create or update the range estimate.

Task 8: Create initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates that reflect a current high-level understanding of the effort necessary to deliver the project in order to develop a starting point for managing the project.

Task 9: Refine scope, schedule, and cost range estimates that reflect the latest understanding of the effort necessary to deliver the project in order to manage the project.

Task 10: Continuously use data from changes in resource capacity, project size, and velocity metrics in order to evaluate the estimate to complete.

Domain 6 – Problem Detection and Resolution:

Task 1: Create an open and safe environment by encouraging conversation and experimentation, in order to surface problems and impediments that are slowing the team down or preventing its ability to deliver value.

Task 2: Identify threats and issues by educating and engaging the team at various points in the project in order to resolve them at the appropriate time and improve processes that caused issues.

Task 3: Ensure issues are resolved by appropriate team members and/or reset expectations in light of issues that cannot be resolved in order to maximize the value delivered.

Task 4: Maintain a visible, monitored, and prioritized list of threats and issues in order to elevate accountability, encourage action, and track ownership and resolution status.

Task 5: Communicate status of threats/ issues by maintaining a threat list & incorporating activities to the backlog of work to provide transparency.

Domain 7 – Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People):

Task 1: Tailor and adapt the project process by periodically reviewing and integrating team practices, organizational culture, and delivery goals in order to ensure team effectiveness within established organizational guidelines and norms.

Task 2: Improve team processes by conducting frequent retrospectives and improvement experiments in order to continually enhance the effectiveness of the team, project, and organization.

Task 3: Seek feedback on the product by incremental delivery and frequent demonstrations in order to improve the value of the product.

Task 4; Create an environment of continuous learning by providing opportunities for people to develop their skills in order to develop a more productive team of generalizing specialists.

Task 5: Challenge existing process elements by performing a value stream analysis and removing waste in order to increase individual efficiency and team effectiveness.

Task 6: Create systemic improvements by disseminating knowledge and practices across projects and organizational boundaries in order to avoid the re-occurrence of identified problems and improve the effectiveness of the organization as a whole.