Context of an Agile development

• Why opt for a development in agile mode?
• The range of agile methods: Scrum, XP, FDD, DSDM, Crystal, Lean SD & Kanban.
• Summary map of agile methods.

Determining the value chain in Agile mode

• Unique aspects of an Agile contract.
• Use of the indicators RSI, VAN and TRI.
• “User values“: Relative prioritization.
• Planning within the team’s capacity.
• Organizing a schedule and iteration scalability to satisfy the client environment.
• Tracking performance through earned value management.
• Incorporating change, re-prioritization, and feedback from the client to proceed with later iterations.

Stakeholder engagement

• Building the vision: Prototyping tools, metaphors, and use cases to achieve a “roadmap/backlog”.
• Communicating: “information radiators & burn up/down charts”.
• Facilitation to protect the teams and resolve conflicts.

Improving the performance of Agile teams

• Managing with your emotional intelligence.
• Keeping the teams focused using agile events.
• Moderating and arbitrating brainstorming sessions.
• Workspaces that strengthen team cohesion.
• Optimally integrating distributed teams.

The adaptive schedule

• Agile planning concepts: “timeboxing”.
• Agile estimates, relative complexities.
• The relationship between these complexities and the gradual drafting of the schedule.
• Establishing benchmarks to assign a workload to complexity estimates.
• Ending up with a prioritized agile release plan, on time and within the budget.

Detecting and resolving anomalies

• Limiting coercive control.
• Increasing group responsibility (test-driven, simple design, refactoring).
• Collaborative practices (pair programming, continuous integration, etc.).
• Best practices: XP, "Escaped defect", and Lean SD.

Continual improvement

• The “Kaizen Effect”.
• Sharing knowledge.
• Working on the operability and cycle time of processes.
• Highlighting new agile practices.
• Maintaining and strengthening agile collaboration.

Preparing for the exam

• PMI-ACP® eligibility process.
• Exam questions and group corrections.
• Complete exam answers provided.
• Traps to avoid, organize your preparation well.