Passing the PMI-ACP certification exam The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers. The PMI-ACP® is a fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive […]
PMI-ACP exam The PMI-ACP exam is the exam for the Agile Certfified Practitioner du Project Management Institute. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers. PMI-ACPism’s • Assume a small, […]
Agile and the Knowledge and Skills : Level 3 The Knowledge and Skills at the Level 2 are : – Agile contracting methods – Agile project accounting principles – Applying new Agile practices – Compliance (organization) – Control limits for Agile projects – Failure modes and alternatives – Globalization, culture, and team diversity – Innovation […]
Agile and the Knowledge and Skills : Level 2 The Knowledge and Skills at the Level 2 are : – Agile frameworks and terminology – Building high-performance teams – Colocation (geographic proximity) / distributed teams – Continuous improvement processes – Elements of a project charter for an Agile project – Facilitation methods – Participatory decision […]
Agile and the soft skills negotiation Key soft skills negotiation qualities for the effective implementation and practice of agile are: emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptive leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, servant leadership. [Coaching Agile Teams. Lyssa Adkins.] – 6 keys Emotional intelligence Collaboration Adaptive leadership Negotiation Conflict resolution Servant leadership 6 keys of soft skills negotiation – […]
Agile and risk management Agile risk management : – Risks – 5 core risks areas – Risk audit – Risk contingency – Risk mitigation – Risk monitoring – Risk-adjusted backlog – Risk-based burnup chart – Risk burn down graphs – Risk–based spike Risks The agile methodology generally deals with qualitative risks. NOT quantitative. [The Art […]
Agile and the product quality Product quality is defined by : – Acceptance criteria – Continuous integration – Definition of done – Escaped defects – Project charter – Test, test-driven development/test first development – Frequent Verification and validation Acceptance criteria The acceptance criteria doesn’t be too vague (remember the T of INVEST for defining good […]
Agile planning, monotoring and adapting – Acceptance criteria – Burn-down chart – Burn-up chart – Cumulative flow diagrams – Definition of Done – Iteration – Kanban boards – Lean manufacturing, lean-agile software development – Process tailoring – Reflection – Reflexive improvement workshops – Release planning – Rolling wave plan or rolling look ahead plan – […]
Agile metrics – Cycle Time – Earned Value Management (EVM) – Progress – Velocity Cycle time – Value and progress Because value is delivered incrementally and iteratively through iterations, value and progress is typically measured at the end of each iteration. [The Art of Agile Development. James Shore.] – Project burndown bar chart If a […]
Agile communications Agile communications are described in the Agile Manifesto. The Agile Manifesto developed by the Agile Alliance covers 4 values and 12 principles. The four values are : 1) individuals and interactions over processes and tools, 2) working software over comprehensive documentation, 3) customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and 4) responding to change over […]
Agile analysis and design Agile modeling is describe in the Crystal development process The Crystal development process is cyclical/iterative, its primary components are chartering, delivery cycles, and project wrap-up. Agile chartering Chartering involves creating a project charter, which can last from a few days to a few weeks. Chartering consists of four activities: 1) […]
Agile estimation – Affinity estimating – Ideal time – Ideal days – Idle Time – Elapsed Time – Project buffer – Project burndown chart – Relative sizing/story points – Local safety – Parking lot chart – Planning poker – Product backlog – Reference point user story – Story points – User story – Revenue – […]
Agile : a different philosophy In a traditional Project, plan what you expect to happen : – Enforce that what happens is the same as what is planned Directive management Control, control, control – Use change control to manage change Change Control Board Defect Management In an Agile Project, plan what you expect to […]
Agile terminology – Caves and common – Governance – Intrinsic quality – Product knowledge – Reflection or retrospective – Refactoring – Code refactoring – Standards – Technical debt – Vertical-market software Caves and common The XP phrase ‘caves and common’ refers to the creation of two zones for team members. The common area is a […]
Agile frameworks Common frameworks or methodologies used within agile include: scrum, extreme programming (XP), lean software development, crystal, feature driven development (FDD), dynamic systems development method (DSDM), agile unified process (AUP). [Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game – 2nd Edition. Alistair Cockburn.] Agile methods offer several benefits including faster time to market, more business value […]