Schedule
Agile Fundamentals and the Roadmap to be PMI-ACP
Online Registration & Payment
| Date: | 20 June 2020 |
| Time: | 9:30am – 5:30pm |
| Venue: | TBC |
| PDU: | 7 |
| Instructor: | Mr. Alex Sin |
| Fee: | PMI HK Member: HKD 1,800 Non-PMI HK Member: HKD 2,100 |
| Remarks: | As a prevention measure against the spread of COVID-19, The training will be delivered online with Zoom (Guideline). Please contact PMI HK admin at admin@pmi.org.hk or 2784 1880 |
Synopsis
This class provides an overview of Agile mindset and common methodologies for Agile project team and stakeholders. Participants will know the Agile approach to new product development. They will apply the basic knowledge of Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospectives, and learn to utilize the concepts of Inspection, Adaptation, and Continuous Improvement.
If you need to bring values to customers or users during a significant change in an organization, Agile is definitely a good choice. Someone may still hesitate to achieve the credential; this course will provide you an answer after reviewing the examination contents.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the class, students will be able to:
- Compare the Agile and Waterfall approaches
- Know the basics of Agile Team Organization
- Apply Agile project charter and high-level estimating principles
- Create personas and user stories and requirements decomposition
- Develop and manage a product backlog
- Use information radiator on project communications
- Manage iteration review and iteration retrospective
Course Outline
What is Agile?
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- The Agile Value Proposition
- Comparison of agile and traditional approaches
- The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles
Overview Agile methodologies and themes
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- Scrum overview
- XP overview
- Value driven delivery
- Time boxes and prioritization
Project Initiation
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- Project vision and initiation
- High level estimation
- Product backlog
- Story maps and the product roadmap
Release Planning
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- Minimally marketing feature
- Decomposing stories
- Story maps for releases
- Prioritization methods
- Story points and velocity
- Creating a release plan
During the Iterations
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- Agile process overview
- Types of iterations
- Spikes and related roles
- Planning meeting
- Communication and team space
- Daily stand-up meeting
- Information radiators
- Burndown/burnup charts
- Escaped defects
- The iteration retrospective
Agile teams
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- Tasks, roles
- Leadership
Reviews and retrospectives
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- Continuous improvement
- Iteration reviews, retrospectives
Roadmap to the PMI-ACP and the Exam
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- Qualification
- Study plan
- Skills
Who should attend?
For PMI-ACP candidates,
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- Need additional training hours to fulfill the pre-requisite
- Refresh their knowledge, tools and techniques about Agile
- Learn the exam skills to increase success rate
- Formulate a study plan and related investment
Remarks: This class is not a replacement for a standard 3-day Agile class
For non-PMI-ACP candidates,
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- to have Agile overview
- to participate Agile projects
- to estimate the effort spent onto the credential
Instructor’s Profile – Mr. Alex Sin, PMP®, PMI-ACP®
Alex Sin is an independent consultant with more than 26 years of IT experience with expertise in Consulting, Project Management and Training. He is a certified instructor in a few areas including IT, Consulting and Management Development. Alex is well equipped with Methodology to deliver IT Consulting. He is also a practitioner of PDI, MBTI and DISC well-known consulting tools.
Alex enriched his Project Management experience from large scaled projects like Libraries, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department and Companies Registry. He recently completed a virtualization project for a local telecommunication company.
Alex is currently a VP Volunteer at Project Management Institute Hong Kong Chapter. Alex graduated from The University of Toronto with major in Computer Sciences and Mathematics.