1. Adaptive Planning
- Affinity estimating
- Agile discovery
- Agile sizing and estimating techniques
- Daily stand-ups (ground rules, three questions)
- Defining and testing acceptance criteria
- Estimating initial velocity
- Estimating tasks
- Fast failure
- Ideal time
- Iteration planning process
- Planning poker and story points
- Product roadmap
- Progressive elaboration
- Relative sizing
- Release planning process
- Slicing stories
- Spikes – Architectural and risk-based spikes
- Story maps
- User stories
- User story backlog – refinment, requirement reviews
- Value-based analisys and decomposition
2. Problem Detection and Resolution
- Control limits
- Cost of change
- Cycle tyme
- Defect rate
- Escaped defects
- Expected monetary value
- Faiure and success models
- Lead time
- Risk-adjusted backlog
- Risk burndown graphs
- Risk severity
- Technical debt
- Throughput/productivity
- Trend analysis (lagging metrics / leading metrics)
- Variance analysis (common cause / special cause)
3. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)
- Agile hybrid models
- Feedback methods
- Fishbone Analysis
- Five Whys
- Kaizen
- Learning cycle
- PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conductt
- Process analysis and process tailoring
- Product feedback loop
- Retrospectives
- Self assessment tools and techniques
- Systems thinking
- Value-stream mapping