The Essential Role of the Agile Product Owner
In changing markets, leadership matters. And for businesses adopting agile thinking, appointing a strong product owner maximizes the value of a business’s products is essential. Employing a product owner can help businesses increase their agility, allowing them to adapt to change and enhance the value of their products.
In this course, you’ll learn about the role and responsibilities of a product owner in an agile enterprise, and the qualities necessary for effective product ownership. You’ll also learn the best strategies for empowering product owners and removing obstacles that impede their success.
0.4 Hours
- Identify the role the product owner plays on a Scrum team
- Identify the responsibilities of a product owner
- Identify the qualities that make for an effective product owner
- Recognize the communication responsibilities of a product owner
- Recognize obstacles to effective product ownership
- Recognize strategies for empowering product owners
- Knowledge Check: Employing an Agile Product Owner
Innovating with Lean Product Management
The essence of Lean product management is building the right product as quickly and cheaply as possible. In this course, you’ll discover how Lean methodology can help you build the right product from defining need to continuous improvement.
0.5 Hours
- Identify characteristics of Lean product management
- Identify key facets of the scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies
- Identify the business mind-set required to achieve success with Lean product management
- Identify key actions when determining your customer and their needs
- Identify activities performed when determining your product focus and minimum viable product
- Identify considerations for conducting user tests
- Recognize the merits of Lean product management
Agile Principles and Methodologies
Overview/Description
Agile projects use of short work iterations and incremental development of products that focus on business priorities and customer value. In this course, you’ll learn fundamental Agile concepts, including the eight Agile values and twelve Agile principles.
This course also covers the five phases of the Agile project management model, and introduces you to the most common Agile methodologies and frameworks. Finally, this course introduces key activities for managing an Agile project, including creating a product vision and project charter, and best contract and documentation types.
This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
0.9 Hours
- Identify characteristics of the Agile method
- Distinguish between primary and secondary Agile values
- Identify the five phases of the Agile project management model
- Identify some of the methodologies that can be used for Agile project management
- Recognize the four Scrum inspect and adapt events
- Identify the five ADAPT steps required to transition to Agile
- Identify the recommended components of a business case
- Recognize the elements of a project charter
- Identify the contract types suitable for Agile projects
- Identify helpful types of documentation for Agile projects
- Demonstrate your understanding of the Agile principles and methodologies
Agile Project Planning
Properly estimating and prioritizing project requirements is critical to Agile project planning success. You need to be able to map out the work necessary for your product release. In this course you’ll learn about critical Agile planning activities including creating personas and wireframing.
This course also covers the most common Agile estimation techniques such as story points, wideband Delphi, and affinity estimation. This course also covers requirements prioritization methods and activities you perform when completing your release plan.
This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam.PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
1.0 Hours
- Distinguish between the key tasks of release planning and iteration planning
- Identify best practices for creating personas as part of requirements definition
- Identify wireframing best practices for formatting user stories
- Identify benefits of story mapping
- Recognize Agile estimating techniques
- Identify considerations to keep in mind when estimating team velocity
- Distinguish between the different customer-valued prioritization methods
- Identify the four MoSCoW model categories
- Distinguish between characteristics of the Kano model and priority matrices
- Identify the key activities that take place in the iteration planning meeting
- Demonstrate your knowledge of Agile planning activities
Agile Project Scheduling and Monitoring
Wouldn’t it be great if projects managed themselves once you got them started? But this isn’t the case. Successful Agile project management involves adequate scheduling and monitoring, which helps identify any adjustments that need to be made, and ensures effective time management.
In this course, you’ll learn about managing projects with Agile project scheduling activities like setting work in progress limits and implementing project buffers. This course also covers recommended project time management processes for monitoring and tracking progress at both the iteration and project levels.
This course also introduces you to key risk management and product quality, testing, and integration strategies you can use when managing Agile projects to help ensure your project creates and maintains the intended value as it progresses.
This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam. PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
0.9 Hours
- Identify the benefits of setting WIP limits
- Distinguish between different types of scheduling buffers
- Sequence the steps of the Square Root of the Sum of the Squares method for calculating project buffer
- Identify the steps of the backlog grooming process
- Distinguish between tracking tools for the iteration level and the project level
- Identify the required parameters for EVM
- Recognize common review and feedback methods for Agile projects
- Identify common risk management strategies for Agile projects
- Recognize characteristics of Agile testing
- Demonstrate your knowledge of Agile project scheduling and monitoring process activities
Agile Stakeholder Engagement and Team Development
Agile projects are only successful if the Agile team is cohesive, productive, and engaged. Strong project managers encourage active involvement to ensure the team has a clear understanding of the project requirements and stakeholder expectations.
In this course you’ll learn about Agile teams and team leadership, including the characteristics of an effective Agile team. This course also introduces you to common team development strategies, and developmental mastery models.
Finally this course covers effective communication tools and the benefits of using facilitation techniques like Agile games to foster collaboration and cooperation in the Agile team. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam.PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
0.9 Hours
- Identify essential strategies for achieving stakeholder commitment in an Agile project
- Recognize the role of stakeholders throughout the phases of the APM model
- Identify characteristics of effective decision-making techniques for Agile projects
- Recognize characteristics of a cohesive and effective Agile team
- Identify considerations to make when scaling Agile teams
- Identify strategies to improve team performance
- Distinguish between common developmental mastery models in Agile
- Recognize effective communication tools for information flow in an Agile environment
- Recognize benefits of Agile games
- Demonstrate your knowledge of Agile stakeholder engagement and team development processes
Maximizing Value with A/B Testing
Overview/Description
Used correctly, A/B testing helps your organization identify value-add activities with data you already have, allowing you to become an agile enterprise that can adapt to a changing environment quickly.
It is the process of testing two elements to determine which performs more effectively. Used correctly, it can help your organization develop agile thinking for dealing with change and innovation. By improving your agility, you can capitalize on opportunities quickly.
In this course, you’ll learn about the characteristics and benefits of A/B testing. You’ll also learn about the key activities for creating an organizational A/B test strategy. And you’ll explore considerations and best practices for using A/B testing.
0.3 Hours
- Identify characteristics of A/B testing
- Recognize the benefits of A/B testing for an organization
- Identify the key activities for creating an organizational A/B test strategy
- Distinguish between the phases of A/B testing
- Recognize best practices in A/B testing
- Knowledge Check: Using A/B Testing for Business Value
Cultivating Enterprise Agile
The economy, technology, and the political landscape are changing rapidly. Agility is needed for an organization to adapt to change, and agile thinking must be fostered and realized across the organization.
In this course, you’ll learn about agile enterprise and its benefits, factors for its successful implementation, and key steps involved in its creation. You’ll also explore ways to overcome common obstacles to enterprise agile, and to select appropriate planning tools for an agile organization.
0.3 Hours
- Recognize the benefits of enterprise agile
- Recognize the critical success factors necessary for an effective agile enterprise
- Sequence the steps to create an agile enterprise
- Match obstacles to enterprise agile and solutions to overcome them
- Recognize characteristics of effective and forward-thinking enterprise agile planning tools for your organization
- Knowledge Check: Developing Enterprise Agility
Harnessing the Power of DevOps
Each day at work can bring new pressure to reduce time to market, improve efficiency, and boost quality. While Agile methodologies can help companies transform to a digital era, using DevOps practices goes even further to completely rework product life cycles and create a customer-centric culture of efficiency.
In this course, you’ll learn about DevOps principles and building blocks, the benefits of using DevOps, and challenges and success strategies when implementing DevOps.
0.5 Hours
- Discover the key concepts covered in this course
- Identify key characteristics of DevOps and the DevOps culture
- Recognize core DevOps building blocks
- Identify the benefits of DevOps and the DevOps culture
- Identify key challenges when transforming to a DevOps culture
- Recognize examples of key strategies for DevOps success
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills in DevOps
Developing and Supporting an Agile Mind-set
Rapid advances in digital technology are compelling businesses to change and adapt the ways they operate. Developing agile thinking will help ensure your organization doesn’t get left behind, unable to compete in a market that is constantly changing.
In this course, you’ll learn why it’s important for organizations to cultivate a culture of agility and the characteristics that distinguish an agile mindset from a fixed mindset. You’ll also learn how to encourage and build an agile enterprise, and how doing so will help your business flourish.
This course also covers how developing and supporting an agile mindset can benefit both your corporate culture and your business success.
0.4 Hours
- Developing and Supporting an Agile Mindset
- Recognize the importance of the Agile mindset in digital transformations
- Identify the characteristics of the Agile mindset
- Identify the differences between an Agile mindset and a Fixed mind-set
- Identify actions that encourage the adoption of an Agile mindset
- Identify the requirements for building an Agile mindset culture
- Recognize how an Agile mindset culture can help a company succeed
- Knowledge Check: The Agile Mindset
Embracing an Agile Culture for Business Growth
Agility in today’s business environment is essential, and changing to an Agile enterprise can propel your business forward. With Agile thinking, you can adapt to each change as it occurs.
In this course, you’ll learn about the benefits of adopting an Agile mindset, as well as the best practices and the right conditions for doing so. You’ll also learn about the leadership styles necessary for agile success. Finally, you’ll explore how to measure the success of and overcome challenges to your organization’s Agile transformation.
0.4 Hours
- Embracing an Agile Culture for Business Growth
- Recognize the benefits of cultivating an Agile environment
- Identify the key best practices for capitalizing on Agile’s potential within your organization
- Distinguish between favorable and unfavorable conditions in the business environment for Agile adoption
- Recognize the five leadership and management style shifts necessary to transition to an Agile mindset
- Identify challenges to Agile adoption and solutions for overcoming them
- Distinguish between the categories of metrics you can use to measure the success of Agile transformation in an organization
- Knowledge Check: Adopting an Agile Culture
Learning from Failure
From the minor slip up to a full-blown catastrophe, failure is a part of life and business. It’s part of your self-development, and it’s part of developing talent. It should be embraced as an opportunity for continuous learning and growth.
If you encourage organizational learning, you can start developing employees. And then those who embrace failure are more likely to achieve their goals.
In this course, you’ll learn how to embrace failure by developing an attitude of learning from setbacks. You’ll learn about the cycle of success when developing people, and you’ll also explore failure in greater detail, its potential benefits, as well as key strategies for embracing it.
0.3 Hours
- Identify the key stages of the success cycle
- Identify the common causes of three types of failure
- Identify key actions that foster an attitude of learning from failure
- Recognize the growth opportunities that can come from embracing failure
- Identify actions that help you shift from a failure to a learning opportunity
- Knowledge Check: Embracing Failure