Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Training & Certification Course

Validate your knowledge and skills of agile practices by doing PMI accredited Agile Certified Practitioner course. Become a trained Agile professional and implement your learnings.

About Certification

The market dynamics change every now and then, therefore one must stay updated with the latest advancements happening in their field.

PMI ACP is a fully developed certification course for professionals who want a deeper understanding of the advancing market. This Agile Certified Practitioner course is created by agile expert practitioners.

The agenda is to provide a better understanding of agile practices and be more responsive in delivering agile projects.

Prerequisite

• A secondary degree

• 21 Contact hours of training in agile practices.

• General project experience of 12 months gained within the last 5 years. Current certification of PMP or PgMP will satisfy the prerequisite for doing ACP certification. However, it is a necessity for PMI-ACP.

• Agile project experience of 8 months gained within last 3 years.

PMI- ACP Course Curriculum

This course provides participants with a foundation for the PMI-ACP® exam. Participants will be introduced to PMI Agile concepts and practices with banks of sample questions.

• Scrum theory and principle

• The Scrum Framework

• Scrum Roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master And Development Team

• The Definition of Done & Acceptance Criteria

• Running a Scrum project

• Working with people and teams

• Scrum in your organisation

• The role of the Scrum Master

PMI-ACP® Exam Preparation

Core Agile Concepts

The Agile Manifesto

• The Agile Manifesto Overview

• Manifesto Contributors

• Manifesto Values

• Manifesto Principles

Common Agile Methodology Elements

• Common Agile Methodology Elements Overview

• Project (Product; Release) Initiation

• Agile Planning

• Iteration Planning and Executing

Project Initiation

• Project Initiation Overview

• Determine Project Justifications and Metrics

• Provide Value-Driven Delivery

• Write Project Vision Statement

• Create Project Charter

• Identify Stakeholders and Leader/Coach

• Form Project Team

Agile Teams And Team Space

• Agile Teams and Team Space Overview

• Scrum Master/Coach

• Product Owner/Customer

• Team Members/Developers (XP)

• Trackers and Testers

• Other Roles

• Team Space

• Physical Space Recommendations

Agile Planning

• Agile Planning Overview

• Develop Epics and Stories

• Create Stories

• Non-Customer Facing Stories

• Personas and Extreme Personas

• Story Maps

• Estimating Stories

• Prioritizing Stories

• Create Product Backlog

• Create Product Roadmap

• Conduct Release Planning

• Create Parking Lot

Iterations/Sprints

• Iterations/Sprints Overview

• Velocity Determination

• Iteration Planning Meeting

• Iteration Planning Guidelines

• Development

• Testing

• Daily Standup Meetings

• Progress Tracking

• Velocity Tracking

Interpersonal Aspects Of Agile

• Interpersonal Aspects of Agile Overview

• Methodologies and Uncertainty

• Coach/Scrum Master

• Team Motivation

• Soft Skills

• Emotional Intelligence

• Collaboration

• Negotiations

• Active listening

• Conflict Resolution

• Speed Leas’ Model of Group Conflict

• Conducting Retrospectives

• Mindsets of Agile Coaches

• Leadership Stages

• Key Coaching Responsibilities

Agile methodologies

• Agile Methodologies Overview

• XP and Scrum Terms

• XP Terms and Concepts

• XP Primary Practices

• XP Corollary Practices

• Scrum

• Lean Software Development

• Seven Principles of Lean

• Seven Types of Muda

• Responsibilities

• Core Beliefs of Lean-Agile Software Development

• Other Principles of Lean-Agile Software Development

• Value Stream Mapping

• Lean-Agile Software Development Portfolio Management

Exam Info

• LEVEL: Intermediate to expert level certification course

• RE-CERTIFICATION Required: yes

• Total no. of questions: 120 out of which 100 are scored while 20 are pretest questions

• PASS Score: 70%

• Negative Marking: No

• Mode: Online Proctored Exam

• Type: Multiple Choice

• Duration of exam: 3 Hours (120 minutes)

Key Features

• Certification is Accredited by PMI (Project Management Institute) - Our Authorised Partners

• Deliverables : Courseware, Question Bank, Training Kit

• Authorised Study material from PMI

• Globally Recognized Certificate of Participation from Scrum.Org upon course completion

• Access study resources like case studies, exercises, eBooks, mock tests, & more upto a year.

Skills You Learn

• Agile Principles and Mindset

• Adaptive Planning

• Working knowledge of Agile

• Multi-iterative models

• Delivering high-velocity stories

• Agile principles

Who Can Join PMI-ACP Training?

Anyone interested to build a strong Scrum career can opt for this PSM training.

• Software Engineers

• Scrum Team Members

• Developers and Testers

• Teams transitioning to Scrum

• Project Managers

• Business Analysts