Earn the PMI ACP Credential and be recognized as an Agile Certified Practitioner

Course Description
The PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) is a new credential offered by the PMI for people working in Agile project management environments. The PMI-ACP carries a high level of professional standing and credibility as it requires the combination of Agile training, experience, and the PMI ACP Certification examination.

If you use Agile practices in your projects, or your organization is adopting Agile approaches to project management, this 3 day session and the PMI-ACP certification may be right for you.

What You Can Expect

The PMI-ACP recognizes knowledge of Agile principles, practices and techniques across Agile methodologies. This 3 day session challenges new and seasoned Agile practitioners to explore what it takes to successfully apply Agile methods to their teams, projects and programs. In addition to providing the full spectrum of Agile principles, practices and techniques, this material is designed to cover all the areas needed to successfully pass the PMI-ACP Exam.

The PMI-ACP course features an interactive format filled with actual Agile experiences to truly provide you with direct access to what it takes to be highly effective with Agile. Our highly experienced Agile Project Management Coaches know what it takes to make Agile work in the real world, and what it takes to succeed on the PMI-ACP exam! To help you prepare for the PMI-ACP Exam and to provide overall structure for Agile as a body of knowledge, here are the specific objectives covered during this 3 day session:

COURSE OUTLINES

• Agile tools and techniques - 50% of total PMI-ACP Exam questions
  • Communications
  • Planning, monitoring and adapting
  • Agile estimation
  • Agile analysis and design
  • Product quality
  • Soft skills negotiation
  • Value-based prioritization
  • Risk management
  • Metrics
  • Value stream analysis
• Agile knowledge and skills - 50% of total PMI-ACP sm Exam questions
  • Level 1 (33% of total exam questions)
    • Active listening
    • Agile Manifesto value and principles
    • Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
    • Brainstorming techniques
    • Building empowered teams
    • Coaching and mentoring within teams
    • Communications management
    • Feedback techniques for product (e.g. prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)
    • Incremental delivery
    • Knowledge sharing
    • Leadership tools and techniques
    • Prioritization
    • Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques
    • Project and quality standards for Agile projects
    • Stakeholder management
    • Team motivation
    • Time, budget, and cost estimation
    • Value-based decomposition and prioritization
  • Level 2 (12% of total exam questions)
    • Agile frameworks and terminology
    • Building high-performance teams
    • Business case development
    • Colocation (geographic proximity/distributed teams)
    • Continuous improvement processes
    • Elements of a project charter for an Agile project
    • Facilitation methods
    • Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based. Shared collaboration, command)
    • PMI-ACP™s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
    • Process analysis techniques
    • Self assessment
    • Value-based analysis
  • Level 3 (5% of total exam questions)
    • Agile contracting methods
    • Agile project accounting principles
    • Applying new Agile practices
    • Compliance (organization)
    • Control limits for Agile projects
    • Failure modes and alternatives
    • Globalization, culture, and team diversity
    • Innovation games
    • Principles of systems thinking (e.g. complex adaptive, chaos)
    • Regulatory compliance
    • Variance and trend analysis
    • Variations in Agile methods and approaches
    • Vendor management

Who Is Right for the Course
Individuals or groups looking to implement Agile project management practices in their environments, Agile practitioners wishing to gain a credential reflecting their professional achievement The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner training course provides 21 PDUs for participants who are PMP Certified.

Prerequisites:Candidates must hold the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification-or- 2000 hours of documented Project Management experience. In addition, candidates must have at least 1500 document hours of Agile Project Management experience (non overlapping with the aforementioned 2000 hours) prior to sitting for the PMI-ACP Exam.