Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Preparation Course
Course Description
Agile methods are taking the development worlds by storm because they’re effective and they better align with the realities of changing requirements, ever more challenging constraints, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This PMI® Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Preparation Course workshop explains to how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your projects.
If you use agile practices in your projects, or your organization is adopting agile approaches to project management, the PMI-ACP® certification may be right for you. The Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Preparation Course recognises knowledge of agile principles, practices and tools and techniques across agile methodologies. The Agile Certified Practitioner is positioned to recognise and validate knowledge of this important approach.
3 Days
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Who should attend
Participants should have a strong background in Agile and wish to obtain the Agile Certified Practitioner Certification.Introduction to the PMI-ACP® Exam
Recognizing key Agile developments and definitionsApplying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
Implementing Value-Driven Delivery
Focusing on business valueDefining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
Leveraging rapid feedback cycles
Ensuring progressive elaboration of requirements
Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing the Definition of Done
Maintaining Stakeholder Engagement
Engaging empowered business stakeholdersIdentifying stakeholders and their concerns
Promoting effective collaboration and participation
Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions
Enabling knowledge sharing
Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria
Boosting Team Performance Practices
Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision makingInfluencing teams to design their own internal work processes
Empowering teams to self organize
Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
Developing high performance teams
Raising productivity by eliminating waste
Coaching and mentoring styles that foster skill enhancement
Implementing Adaptive Planning
Planning at multiple levelsApplying rolling wave planning
Leveraging progressive elaboration
Employing empirical planning
Balancing priorities and team capabilities
Refining estimate ranges to reflect current levels of uncertainty
Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
Problem Detection and Resolution
Recognizing and mitigating risksTime Boxing to focus on immediate issues
Engaging the team proactively to identify risks and create mitigation strategies
Ensuring impediments are resolved and stakeholder expectations are adjusted
Communicating risks and impediments
Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
Managing features, technical issues and defects with Backlog
Facilitating Continuous Improvement
Conducting frequent retrospectives to improve the team’s behaviorExperimenting with new techniques and process ideas
Evaluating work efficiency
Removing no value adding processes
Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)
Exam Simulator
An exam simulator is provided to participants to practice and gain confidence to sit the PMI-ACP exam. The exam topics and marking simulate the syllabus marking scheme for the real exam. Participants do this in their own time at the end of the course. There are 120 questions and the time limit is 3 hours.During the course, there are also exam preparation question at the end of the each section.
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