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Agile Project Management: Preparation for Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Program Overview

Agile approaches are now used well beyond software, in digital government services, banking products and transformation programmes across the Gulf. This course builds practical agile delivery skills while preparing participants for the PMI-ACP examination. It covers the Agile Manifesto and its principles, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP practices, value-driven delivery, backlog management, user stories and estimation, adaptive planning, team facilitation and continuous improvement. Each topic is mapped to the current PMI-ACP examination content outline and reinforced with scenario-based practice questions.

Learning Outcomes

✓Explain agile values and principles and compare Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP practices.
✓Write and refine user stories with acceptance criteria and prioritise a product backlog by value.
✓Estimate work using story points and planning poker and plan releases using team velocity.
✓Track progress with burndown, burnup and cumulative flow diagrams and act on what they show.
✓Facilitate sprint reviews and retrospectives that produce concrete improvement actions.
✓Answer scenario-based exam questions with a target score on a timed practice test.

Target Audience

Project managers moving to agile or hybrid delivery
Scrum masters and agile team leads
Product owners and business analysts
PMO staff supporting agile teams

Detailed Program Modules

01Agile Mindset and Exam Orientation

Agile Manifesto values and principles
PMI-ACP examination content outline and question styles
Agile versus predictive and hybrid approaches

02Agile Frameworks and Practices

Scrum roles, events and artefacts
Kanban, WIP limits and flow
Lean and XP practices

03Value-Driven Delivery and Product Ownership

Product vision and roadmaps
User stories, acceptance criteria and backlog refinement
Prioritisation techniques such as MoSCoW and WSJF

04Adaptive Planning and Estimation

Story points, relative sizing and planning poker
Release and iteration planning
Velocity and capacity forecasting

05Team Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement

Servant leadership and self-organising teams
Information radiators and collaboration
Conflict and impediment management

06Continuous Improvement and Exam Practice

Retrospective formats and metrics
Burndown, burnup and cumulative flow diagrams
Timed practice exam and answer review

Training Methodology

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

Applied Project & Assessment

Applied Project

Participants set up an agile delivery plan for a case product: a product vision, a prioritised backlog with ten user stories, a release plan based on velocity and a sample retrospective, then complete a timed practice exam.

Assessment

Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by Alzette University in Agile Project Management: Preparation for Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

International accreditation: Global Leadership Organization (GLO)