Learn the Basics of PMI-ACP

Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

• Lesson 1: Course Introduction

  16:42

  • 0.1 Course Introduction

    03:36

  • 0.2 Eligibility Requirements

    05:36

  • 0.3 Certification Fees and Renewal

    05:30

  • 0.4 About Our Course

    02:00

• Lesson 2: Agile Principles and Mindset - Part 1

  25:18

  • 1.01 Agile Principles and Mindset - Part One

    00:41

  • 1.02 Introduction to Agile

    03:06

  • 1.03 Agile Engineering Practices

    02:35

  • 1.04 The Agile Manifesto

    01:36

  • 1.05 Agile Manifesto Explained

    02:25

  • 1.06 Principles of Agile Manifesto

    02:17

  • 1.07 Applying the Principles of Agile Manifesto

    01:43

  • 1.08 Agile Core Principles and Practices

    03:41

  • 1.09 Benefits of Agile

    02:56

  • 1.10 Project Life Cycle Characteristics

    03:46

  • 1.11 Key Takeaways

    00:32

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 3: Agile Principles and Mindset - Part 2

  52:31

  • 2.01 Agile Principles and Mindset - Part Two

    00:48

  • 2.02 Agile Methodologies

    01:36

  • 2.03 Agile Mindset

    02:45

  • 2.04 Where to Apply Agile

    01:06

  • 2.05 Meaning of Scrum

    01:06

  • 2.06 Features of Scrum

    02:15

  • 2.07 Three Pillars of Scrum

    02:25

  • 2.08 Scrum Roles

    00:55

  • 2.09 Key Terms of Scrum

    02:40

  • 2.10 Scrum Meetings

    02:31

  • 2.11 Scrum: An Empirical Process

    02:05

  • 2.12 Extreme Programming

    02:45

  • 2.13 Extreme Programming Practices - Part A

    01:36

  • 2.14 Extreme Programming Practices - Part B

    01:28

  • 2.15 Roles in Extreme Programming

    02:03

  • 2.16 Process Diagram of XP

    02:01

  • 2.17 Crystal Method

    00:30

  • 2.18 Properties of Crystal Method

    03:04

  • 2.19 Key Categories of Crystal Method - Part A

    03:40

  • 2.20 Key Categories of Crystal Method - Part B

    00:47

  • 2.21 Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

    00:29

  • 2.22 Basic Principles of Atern

    02:41

  • 2.23 Planning Philosophy in DSDM

    00:57

  • 2.24 DSDM Techniques

    02:21

  • 2.25 DSDM Phases

    01:43

  • 2.26 Feature-Driven Development

    01:05

  • 2.27 Agile Project Management

    03:22

  • 2.28 Key Takeaways

    01:47

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 4: Value-Driven Delivery - Part 1

  30:52

  • 3.01 Value-Driven Delivery - Part One

    00:56

  • 3.02 Quantifying Customer Value

    01:53

  • 3.03 Time Value of Money

    02:03

  • 3.04 Time Value of Money: Example

    01:29

  • 3.05 The Financial Feasibility of Projects

    00:55

  • 3.06 Return on Investment ROI

    00:36

  • 3.07 Net Present Value (NPV)

    02:19

  • 3.08 Net Present Value (NPV): Example

    02:41

  • 3.09 Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

    01:21

  • 3.10 Payback Period

    00:41

  • 3.11 Payback Period: Example

    03:07

  • 3.12 Prioritization of Functional Requirements

    03:19

  • 3.13 MoSCoW

    01:40

  • 3.14 Kano Model

    01:29

  • 3.15 Relative Weighting

    02:25

  • 3.16 Prioritization of Non-Functional Requirements

    01:35

  • 3.17 Risk Management in Agile

    01:28

  • 3.18 Key Takeaways

    00:55

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 5: Value-Driven Delivery - Part 2

  23:27

  • 4.01 Value-Driven Delivery - Part Two

    00:48

  • 4.02 Minimal Viable Product

    00:43

  • 4.03 Project Planning Using MVP

    03:11

  • 4.04 Agile Compliance

    00:35

  • 4.05 Key Drivers of Agile Compliance

    00:33

  • 4.06 Incremental Delivery

    00:58

  • 4.07 Review and Feedback

    02:02

  • 4.08 Earned Value Management

    02:31

  • 4.09 Earned Value Metrics

    03:02

  • 4.10 Earned Value Metrics: Example

    02:17

  • 4.11 Agile Contracts: Components

    00:55

  • 4.12 Agile Contracting Methods

    00:30

  • 4.13 Fixed-Price or Fixed-Scope Contract

    00:26

  • 4.14 Time and Materials (T and M) Contract

    00:29

  • 4.15 T and M with Fixed Scope and Cost Ceiling

    00:31

  • 4.16 T and M with Variable Scope and Cost Ceiling

    00:27

  • 4.17 Bonus or Penalty Clauses

    00:51

  • 4.18 Rolling Agile Contracts

    00:35

  • 4.19 Terms Used in Agile Contracts

    00:53

  • 4.20 Key Takeaways

    01:10

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 6: Stakeholder Engagement - Part 1

  20:45

  • 5.01 Stakeholder Engagement - Part One

    00:43

  • 5.02 Stakeholder Management

    02:04

  • 5.03 Project Charter

    01:22

  • 5.04 Understanding Stakeholder Needs

    00:39

  • 5.05 Agile Wireframes

    01:27

  • 5.06 User Story

    03:11

  • 5.07 Story Card Information

    02:30

  • 5.08 Agile Personas

    03:04

  • 5.09 Theme and Epic

    02:21

  • 5.10 Agile Story Maps

    01:27

  • 5.11 Community and Stakeholder Values

    01:16

  • 5.12 Key Takeaways

    00:41

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 7: Stakeholder Engagement - Part 2

  25:18

  • 6.01 Stakeholder Engagement - Part Two

    00:51

  • 6.02 Community Management

    01:14

  • 6.03 Communication and Knowledge Sharing

    00:56

  • 6.04 Social Media Communication

    01:17

  • 6.05 Information Radiators

    00:38

  • 6.06 Burnup and Burndown Charts

    03:02

  • 6.07 Kanban or Task Board

    00:49

  • 6.08 Impediment Logs

    00:46

  • 6.09 Characteristics of Information Radiators

    01:06

  • 6.10 Agile Modeling

    01:47

  • 6.11 Active Listening

    00:30

  • 6.12 Key Elements of Active Listening

    00:59

  • 6.13 Globalization Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity

    01:24

  • 6.14 Cultural Diversity Issues: Recommendations

    01:20

  • 6.15 Agile Facilitation Methods

    02:24

  • 6.16 Agile Negotiation and Conflict Management

    02:28

  • 6.17 Five Levels of Conflict

    02:48

  • 6.18 Key Takeaways

    00:59

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 8: Team Performance - Part 1

  13:07

  • 7.01 Team Performance - Part One

    00:41

  • 7.02 Features and Composition of Agile Teams

    02:59

  • 7.03 Stages of Agile Team Formation

    01:19

  • 7.04 High Performance Teams

    01:27

  • 7.05 Generalizing Specialist

    01:05

  • 7.06 Team Responsibility

    01:53

  • 7.07 Self-Organization

    02:52

  • 7.08 Key Takeaways

    00:51

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 9: Team Performance - Part 2

  36:11

  • 8.01 Team Performance - Part Two

    00:48

  • 8.02 Agile Leadership

    01:00

  • 8.03 Best Practices of Agile Leadership

    00:58

  • 8.04 Management vs Leadership

    00:58

  • 8.05 Servant Leadership

    01:16

  • 8.06 Coaching and Mentoring

    00:35

  • 8.07 Agile Coaching

    02:16

  • 8.08 Agile Emotional Intelligence

    01:46

  • 8.09 Team Motivation

    00:37

  • 8.10 Maslow’s Theory

    04:31

  • 8.11 Frederick Herzberg's Theory

    00:56

  • 8.12 McClelland's Theory

    01:20

  • 8.13 Boehm's Theory

    00:45

  • 8.14 Team Space

    01:47

  • 8.15 Co-Located Teams

    00:36

  • 8.16 Distributed Teams

    01:03

  • 8.17 Co-Located vs. Distributed Teams

    01:47

  • 8.18 Osmotic Communication

    00:29

  • 8.19 Team Collaboration and Coordination

    01:23

  • 8.20 Collaboration Technology

    00:44

  • 8.21 Communication Gap-Example One

    02:35

  • 8.22 Communication Gap-Example Two

    01:21

  • 8.23 Brainstorming Sessions

    01:18

  • 8.24 Team Velocity

    01:36

  • 8.25 Velocity-Example One

    00:36

  • 8.26 Velocity-Example Two

    00:53

  • 8.27 Sample Velocity Chart

    00:34

  • 8.28 Agile Tools

    00:39

  • 8.29 Key Takeaways

    01:04

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 10: Adaptive Planning - Part 1

  32:03

  • 9.01 Adaptive Planning - Part One

    00:53

  • 9.02 Planning Philosophy

    02:11

  • 9.03 Aligning Agile Projects

    01:37

  • 9.04 Rolling Wave Planning

    01:33

  • 9.05 Timeboxing

    00:56

  • 9.06 Best Practices of Timeboxing

    01:01

  • 9.07 Advantages of Timeboxing

    01:25

  • 9.08 Agile Estimation

    01:49

  • 9.09 Story Points

    02:41

  • 9.10 Assigning Story Points

    02:19

  • 9.11 Story Points Estimation

    02:24

  • 9.12 Story Points Estimation Scale: Example

    01:01

  • 9.13 Value Points

    00:47

  • 9.14 Ideal Days

    01:25

  • 9.15 Story Points vs. Ideal Days

    01:30

  • 9.16 Wideband Delphi Technique

    01:58

  • 9.17 Planning Poker

    01:05

  • 9.18 Planning Poker: Example

    01:37

  • 9.19 Affinity Estimation

    02:31

  • 9.20 Key Takeaways

    01:20

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 11: Adaptive Planning - Part 2

  32:12

  • 10.1 Adaptive Planning - Part Two

    00:49

  • 10.2 Project Size Estimation

    02:20

  • 10.3 Release Plan

    01:57

  • 10.4 Release Plan: Example

    02:51

  • 10.5 Iteration Plan

    02:43

  • 10.6 Types of Iteration Planning

    02:23

  • 10.7 Iteration Lifecycle: Example

    01:49

  • 10.8 Release Plan vs. Iteration Plan

    01:02

  • 10.9 Agile Product Roadmap

    02:07

  • 10.10 Backlog Refinement - Part Two

    01:52

  • 10.11 Value-Based Analysis and Decomposition

    01:28

  • 10.12 Agile Cone of Uncertainty

    02:39

  • 10.13 Velocity Variations

    01:17

  • 10.14 Sprint Reviews

    01:40

  • 10.15 Sprint Retrospectives

    01:19

  • 10.16 Mid-Course Corrections

    02:56

  • 10.17 Key Takeaways

    01:00

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 12: Problem Detection and Resolution - Part 1

  24:27

  • 11.1 Problem Detection and Resolution - Part One

    00:52

  • 11.2 Agile Problem Detection

    01:17

  • 11.3 Problem Detection Techniques

    00:24

  • 11.4 Fishbone Diagram

    01:41

  • 11.5 Five Whys Technique

    01:50

  • 11.6 Control Charts

    01:16

  • 11.7 Lead Time and Cycle Time

    01:22

  • 11.8 Kanban

    01:39

  • 11.9 Kanban Process

    00:44

  • 11.10 Example of Kanban Board

    01:49

  • 11.11 Work In Progress

    02:12

  • 11.12 Managing Constraints

    01:51

  • 11.13 Little’s Law

    01:24

  • 11.14 Escaped Defects

    02:23

  • 11.15 Agile Problem Solving

    02:47

  • 11.16 Key Takeaways

    00:56

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 13: Problem Detection and Resolution - Part 2

  22:27

  • 12.1 Adaptive Planning

    00:57

  • 12.2 Metrics and Measures

    00:52

  • 12.3 Benefits of Metrics

    01:37

  • 12.4 Examples of Metrics

    01:04

  • 12.5 Baseline Metrics

    00:54

  • 12.6 Variance and Trend Analysis

    02:44

  • 12.7 Risk Management Life Cycle

    01:23

  • 12.8 Step One-Risk Identification

    01:07

  • 12.9 Step Two-Risk Assessment

    01:18

  • 12.10 Step Three-Risk Response Strategies

    01:09

  • 12.11 Step Four-Risk Review

    00:19

  • 12.12 Risk Log

    00:50

  • 12.13 Risk Burndown Chart

    00:53

  • 12.14 Risk Profile Graph

    01:15

  • 12.15 Spike

    01:02

  • 12.16 Agile Failure Modes

    01:28

  • 12.17 Agile Coach Failure Modes

    01:48

  • 12.18 Troubleshooting Guidelines

    00:35

  • 12.19 Key Takeaways

    01:12

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 14: Continuous Improvement - Part 1

  27:36

  • 13.1 Continuous Improvement - Part One

    00:48

  • 13.2 Kaizen

    01:46

  • 13.3 Kaizen in Agile

    00:40

  • 13.4 Lean

    02:13

  • 13.5.Defining Waste Manufacturing and Software Development

    02:20

  • 13.6 A Five Step Process to Becoming Lean

    00:46

  • 13.7 Value Stream Mapping

    04:16

  • 13.8 Agile Retrospectives

    01:20

  • 13.9 Cargo Smells

    02:24

  • 13.10 Conducting a Retrospective

    03:00

  • 13.11 Brainstorming Techniques

    01:45

  • 13.12 Process Analysis Techniques

    01:13

  • 13.13 Agile Process Tailoring

    02:27

  • 13.14 Project Factors That Influence Tailoring

    01:54

  • 13.15 Key Takeaways

    00:44

  • Knowledge Check

• Lesson 15: Continuous Improvement - Part 2

  22:12

  • 14.1 Continuous Improvement - Part Two

    00:43

  • 14.2 Quality in Agile

    01:14

  • 14.3 Best Practices for Quality in Agile

    00:40

  • 14.4 Best Practice One-Verification and Validation

    00:58

  • 14.5 Best Practice Two-Exploratory Testing

    00:50

  • 14.6 Best Practice Three-Usability Testing

    00:59

  • 14.7 Best Practice Four-Test-Driven Development

    01:57

  • 14.8 Test-Driven Development Advantages

    02:34

  • 14.9 Acceptance Test-Driven Development Cycle (ATDD)

    01:29

  • 14.10 Best Practice Five: Continuous Integration

    02:19

  • 14.11 Best Practice Six: Definition of Done

    00:39

  • 14.12 Testing Pyramid and Quadrant

    01:45

  • 14.13 Checklist for Story Completion

    01:36

  • 14.14 Agile Flowchart

    01:22

  • 14.15 Agile Spaghetti Diagram

    01:35

  • 14.16 Organizational Self Assessment

    00:36

  • 14.17 Key Takeaways

    00:56

  • Knowledge Check