Agile and PMI-ACP® Certification
COURSE OVERVIEW:
In this training course, participants will be trained to become an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) and be able to align their Agile development experiences to their specific careers and organizations.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
In this intensive Agile and PMI-ACP® Certification training course, participants will learn how to:
- Prepare to pass the PMI-ACP® examination while completing the required contact hours/PDUs
- Learn to maneuver the tools, techniques, knowledge, and skills exam scope
- Coordinate participant’s Agile experience with the six domains of practice
- Re-evaluate essential topics in the Agile and PMI-ACP® suggested reference materials
- Build a strategic plan for self-study between the course and participant’s exam schedule
COURSE CURRICULUM:
- Introduction to the PMI-ACP® Exam
- Understanding the essential Agile developments and definitions
- Make use of the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Mapping techniques, knowledge, skills and tools to the six domains of Agile development
- Establishing a Value-Driven Delivery
- Business value oriented
- Define and prioritize key highlights in terms of user and executives value
- Balancing rapid feedback cycles
- Ensuring continuous elaboration of requirements
- Determining least marketable highlights for release planning
- Honing the requirements definition by being by agreeing on the Definition of Done
- Sustaining collaboration with stakeholders
- Interacting empowered business stakeholders
- Determining stakeholders and their issues
- Allowing smooth and efficient collaboration and engagement
- Communicating progress to help the organization make cognizant decisions
- Allowing sharing of knowledge
- Building and maintaining trust and administering work expectation through shared success requirements
- Increasing Team Performance Techniques
- Building cross-functional teams
- Implementing interdependent behaviors through effective decision-making among groups
- Influencing teams to create their own internal work processes
- Influencing teams to foster self-organization
- Encouraging teams to estimate and monitor project progress
- Building safe work environment for experimentation
- Promoting high performance teams
- Increasing productivity by reducing waste
- Foster quality coaching techniques that develop skill improvement
- Establishing Adaptive Planning
- Make use of rolling wave planning
- Balancing continuous improvement
- Applying empirical planning
- Leveraging priorities and team abilities
- Teaching the team to adopt cadences based on situational awareness
- Employing Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)
- Improving estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
- Securing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified period of time
- Managing costs through quantitative measures
- Problem Determination and Resolution
- Determining and eliminating risks
- Time boxing to focus on immediate challenges
- Allowing team aggression in the identification of risks and building of elimination techniques
- Communicating risks and obstructions
- Sustaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
- Sustaining highlights and technical concerns with Backlog
- Managing Continuous Improvements
- Accommodating the process
- Using retrospectives to enhance the team’s behavior
- Experimenting with new strategies and process ideas
- Assessing work efficiency
- Eliminating nonvalue-adding processes
- Reducing Work in Progress (WIP)
- Preparing to Pass the Exam
- Determining your unique exam preparation technique
- Gaining knowledge into the exam format and process
- Using proven tips for exam success
- Maximizing your study time and focus
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- Becoming more familiar with the PMI-ACP® exams by taking daily PMI-ACP®-style practice exams
- Linking Agile techniques to PMI-ACP® recommended reference tools
- Building multiple customer convergence on priorities
- Implementing the Definition of Done for effective quality assurance
- Improving a personalized exam preparation plan
Who Needs to Take This Course:
This course program is offered to anyone who is interested to gain knowledge and obtain the PMI-ACP® certificate, such as the following professionals:
- Experienced Agile practitioners who plan to take the PMI-ACP® exam
- PMP® credential holders with Agile project management experience who wish to enhance their accreditation
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