PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam Prep
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The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification recognizes your expertise in applying agile principles and techniques in your organization. Earning PMI-ACP® certification shows you have the skills to implement value-driven delivery while facilitating continuous improvement through improved communication and collaboration.
Prepare to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification and earn 21 Professional Development Units (PDUs) with this training course. Through real-life scenarios, you will review Agile terminology and well-known practices, and leverage PMI's seven domains of practice to create a personalized self-study plan and increase the effectiveness of your exam preparation.
You Will Learn How To
- Prepare for the PMI-ACP exam while completing the required 21 contact hours/PDUs
- Navigate the tools, techniques, knowledge, and skills addressed in the exam
- Review relevant topics in the PMI suggested reference materials
- Practise for the exam with sample questions and exercises
Important Course Information
Requirements:
- Experience at the level of:
- 2,000 hours of general project experience in the last five years
- 1,500 hours of Agile project experience in the last three years
Course Preparation:
- Overnight reading required during class.
Certification & Exam Information:
- To earn this certification, you must take and pass the three-hour PMI-ACP exam, comprised of 120 multiple-choice questions (these three-hours are factored in to the full training time required by PMI)
- Learning Tree can help you maintain your certification with a comprehensive list of PDU-eligible training courses.
- To maintain your PMI-ACP, you must earn 30 Professional Development Units (PDUs) in agile topics every three years.
- PMBOK Sixth Edition
The PMI-ACP exam is currently based on the Fifth Edition of the PMBOK® Guide. PMI will be releasing the Sixth Edition Exam beginning on March 26, 2018. Beginning on March 14, 2018, Learning Tree will be offering training to the new version of the exam.
Course Outline
- Introduction to the PMI-ACP Exam
- Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions
- Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI's six domains of Agile development
- 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 on 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
Forming cross-functional teams
- 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
- Creating safe environments for experimentation
Developing high performance teams
- Raising productivity by eliminating waste
- Coaching 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
- Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness
Applying Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)
- Refining estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
- Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
- Controlling costs through quantitative measures
- 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 and technical issues with Backlog
- Facilitating Continuous Improvement
Tailoring the process
- Conducting retrospectives to improve the team's behavior
- Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas
Evaluating work efficiency
- Removing nonvalue-adding processes
- Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)
- Preparing to Pass the Exam
- Defining your exam preparation strategy
- Gaining insight into the exam format and process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Optimizing your study time and focus
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Tuition
Standard
Government
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Online
Standard
$2295
Government
$2295
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Day 1 Course Hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
60-minute lunch
Days 2 - 3 Course Hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
45-minute lunch
Extended hours course to warrant 21 PMI PDUs
Overnight reading required
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Earn 21 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 21 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 19 PDUs
Leadership : 1 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 1 PDUs