Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Preparation Course

This course has been superseded

We suggest the following instead:
ICAgile Certified Agile Fundamentals

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 definitions
Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto

Implementing Value-Driven Delivery

Focusing on business value
Defining 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 stakeholders
Identifying 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 making
Influencing 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 levels
Applying 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 risks
Time 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 behavior
Experimenting 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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