Training Agenda

Day

Lesson No.

Topics

1

Introduction to Certification Planner, LLC

• What people say about CP
• Training types
• Accreditations and Clients
• About Certification Planner
• Introduction to live training
• About the tutorial

1

Agile Certified Practitioner Course Overview

• Value, Eligibility, Certification Timeline, Audit Process, Certification Process, Exam Process
• Domains and Tasks

2

Agile Principles and Mind-set Part I

• Agile: Best Practices, Evolution, Manifesto, Principles
• What Agile is Not
• Benefits of Agile

3

Agile Principles and Mind-set Part II

• Agile, Methodologies, Frameworks and Processes
• Scrum
• Extreme Programming
• Crystal Methodology
• Dynamic Systems Development Method
• Feature Driven Development
• Agile Project Management: Framework
• APM vs PMBOK
• Lean Software Development
• Lean Principles
• Kanban, Open UP,
• Information Radiators

4

Value-Driven Delivery Part I

• Value: Forecasting
• Time Value of Money
• Financial Feasibility of Projects
• Return on Investment, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Payback period
• Prioritization
• Agile Customer-Value Prioritization
• Prioritization Techniques
• Risk Management in Agile and Risk Adjusted Product Backlog
• Non-Functional Requirements

5

Value-Driven Delivery Part II

• Minimum marketable Feature
• Kanban Boards
• Kanban and JIT
• Incremental Delivery
• Review and Feedback Techniques
• Reprioritization or Relative Prioritization
• Agile Compliance
• Earned Value Management for Agile
• Agile Contracts
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6

Stakeholder Engagement Part I

• Stakeholder Management
• Project Charter
• Business Case
• Understanding Stakeholders’ Needs
• Agile Wireframes
• User Story
• Agile Personas
• Product Backlog
• Agile Story Maps

2

7

Stakeholder Engagement Part II

• Communication Management
• Agile Communications
• Information Radiators
• Burn-up Charts and Burn down Charts
• Impediment Logs
• Visible Charts
• Agile Modeling
• Active Listening
• Globalization, Culture and Team Diversity
• Agile Facilitation Methods
• Agile Participatory Decision-Making
• Agile Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

8

Team Performance Part I

• Team Formation
• Setting and Managing Expectations
• Daily Stand up Meeting
• Introduction to Agile Leadership
• Adaptive Leadership, Management vs Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring
• Agile Emotional Intelligence

9

Team Performance Part II

• Agile Team Motivation
• Team Space
• Collaboration Technology
• Agile Brain Storming Session
• Velocity

10

Adaptive Planning Part I

• Aligning Agile Projects to Programs and Portfolios
• Timeboxing
• Estimation
• Measure of Project Size
• Story Points
• Affinity Estimation
• Determining Project Size

11

Adaptive Planning Part II

• Release Plan
• Agile Product Roadmap
• Iteration Plan
• Value based Analysis and Decomposition
• Cone of Uncertainty
• Velocity Variations
• Sprint Reviews

3

12

Problem Detection and Resolution Part I

• Agile problem Detection
• Escaped Defects
• Work in Progress
• Cumulative Flow Diagram
• Agile Problem Solving

13

Problem Detection and Resolution Part II

• Metric and Measure
• Burn Charts
• Variance Analysis, Trend Analysis
• Risk Management in Agile
• Risk Log, Risk Burndown Chart, Risk Profile Graphs, Progressive Risk Reduction
• Spike
• Agile Failure Modes

14

Continuous Improvement Part I

• Kaizen
• Retrospectives
• Process Analysis Technique
• Agile Process Tailoring
• Quality in Agile
• Test Driven Development
• Checklist for Story Completion

15

Continuous Improvement Part II

• Value Stream Mapping
• Seven Forms of Waste
• Agile Flowcharts
• Agile Spaghetti Diagrams
• Self-Assessment
• Principles of System Thinking

16

The Agile Practice Guide

• The Agile Mindset
• Agile Approaches
• Uncertainty and Risk
• Life Cycle Selection
• Creating Agile Environment
• Delivering in Agile Environment
• Agile Organization Considerations