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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)®
Learning Objectives
By Aleem Khan MS, PMP, CSM, ACP

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ACP Certification Overview
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Acquire knowledge of PMI®
 List the library of PMI® global standards
 List the credential offered by PMI®
 Describe PMI-ACP® eligibility criteria, timeline and certification
process
 Identify the Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR)
 Review exam information , content and reference material
suggested by PMI®

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Agile Framework
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Explain the Agile mindset
 Describe situations where Agile best fits
 List the benefits of using Agile
 Know the origin/history of Agile
 Demonstrate an understanding of the Agile Manifesto, Values,
Principles and Practices
 Compare traditional vs. Agile project management methods
 Identify high-level differences from one Agile method to another

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Agile Approach to Planning
At the conclusion of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Recognize multiple levels of planning in Agile
 Describe a planning onion
 Write product vision statement using a template
 Explain Agile chartering
 Describe product roadmap and story mapping
 List the key areas of release and iteration planning and
 Define minimal marketable features (MMF)

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Scrum
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Define Scrum
 Know Scrum origin
 List Scrum legs / pillars
 Summarize Scrum cycle
 Interpret the roles and responsibilities of Scrum Team
 Distinguish Scrum events/ceremonies
 Describe Scrum artifacts

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Extreme Programming
At the conclusion of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Define Extreme Programming (XP) and its origin
 Explain the XP lifecycle
 List the roles in XP team
 Identify key XP concepts including values, principles behind it
 Explain the concept behind theory of constraints (TOC)

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User Stories
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 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 importance of writing acceptance criteria
 Summarize difference between acceptance criteria, acceptance test
and definition of done
 Develop an understanding of the concept of SLICING
 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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Product Backlog
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Describe what is a product backlog
 Outline the qualities of a good product backlog
 Recognize the importance of backlog ordering/force ranking
 Apply learning and identify a good product backlog
 Recognize the purpose of conducting product backlog grooming
sessions
 Explain the purpose of definition of done (DoD) and Definition of
ready (DoR)

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Kanban
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Differentiate between time-boxing and flow-based methods
 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 application of Kanban can be
utilized.

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Agile Estimating
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Identify the challenges in estimation
 List the reasons and be able to explain the who, what and how of
estimation in traditional projects
 Compare between accuracy vs. precision
 Explain the concept behind cone of uncertainty
 Distinguish between relative and absolute estimates
 Explain the Fibonacci sequence as an estimation scale
 Describe wideband Delphi and planning poker
 Relate affinity estimates

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Agile Testing
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Describe how traditional testing practices evolved
 Compare traditional & Agile testing
 Distinguish from test last to test first driven approach
 Explain whole team collaborative approach of effective testing;
 Define overall Agile testing flow
 Explain different Agile testing practices e.g. test-driven
development/test-first development, acceptance test-driven
development (ATDD) and exploratory testing
 Assess the key learning from Agile testing approach

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Agile Retrospective
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Describe retrospective and its purpose
 Describe how to facilitate retrospective
 List the steps of running a retrospective

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Agile Metrics
At the conclusion of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Understand the performance metrics used in Agile projects
 Explain velocity and perform necessary calculations to find out
average velocity for planning purposes
 Explain cycle time and perform necessary calculations
 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.
 Demonstrate the understanding of Earn Value Management
(EVM) in Agile projects

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Other Agile Practices
At the conclusion of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Lean software development
 Value stream mapping
 Information radiators
 Agility and stages of learning –Shu Ha Ri
 Agile modeling
 Wireframes
 Generalizing Specialist
 Adaptive Learning

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