This PMI-ACP exam prep training not only prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort, but ensures that you're prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam.
Agile has made its way into the mainstream – it's no longer a grassroots movement to change software development. Today, more organizations and companies are adopting this approach over a more traditional waterfall methodology, and more are working every day to make the transition.
To stay relevant in the competitive, professional world, it's increasingly important that professionals can demonstrate true leadership ability on today's software projects.
The Project Management Institute's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that you're ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery.
This PMI-ACP exam prep training not only prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort, but ensures that you're prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam.
This course provides a proven combination of class learning and testing that prepares students for some of the most difficult of testing situations. Questions are designed to allow you to learn through practice so that you will be able to apply what you have learned for the exam.
Who Should Attend
This PMI-ACP exam prep is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile PM methodology for software development, including:
Project Managers
Program Managers
Analysts
Developers
Testers
IT Managers/Directors
Software Engineers
Software Architects
Software Managers
Testing Managers
Team Leaders
What You'll Learn
Learn precisely what you will need to know in order to pass the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI–ACP) Exam
Understand Agile principles and practices which will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
Acquire valuable insights into how you can empower and inspire your team
Discover techniques to more actively manage a project's scope to help better ensure the delivery of the best product possible, even if that differs from what was planned
Learn to better know and collaborate with customers for better results
Learn the most powerful metrics to employ to ensure that teams continuously improve their development and delivery
Avoid the pitfalls many teams fall into when adopting Agile practices
Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing agile team
Arm yourself with the latest industry knowledge on how to manage dynamic projects in the most unforgiving environments
Learn why studies have shown Agile teams are significantly happier with their work, and ensure this benefit for your own team
Course Outlines
Part 1: Getting Started
During this kick-off section of the class the group not only covers introductions and course objectives, but they are also taken through an overview of the different Agile methods that are tested on the exam. This section specifically covers:
Introductions
Objectives
Working Agreements
Agile Overview
Why Agile?
What is Agile?
Agile Manifesto & Principles
Agile Practices
The Agile Team
Agile Metrics
Part 2: Tools and Techniques
During this section of the class, the group examines the PMI recognized Tools and Techniques of Agile Project Management. This material represents 50% of the material on the test. This section specifically covers:
Agile analysis and design
Agile estimation
Communications
Interpersonal skills
Metrics
Planning, monitoring, and adapting
Process improvement
Product quality
Risk management
Value-based prioritization
Part 3: Knowledge and Skills
During this section of the class the group explores Agile Knowledge and Skills. This material represents 50% of the material on the test. This section specifically covers:
Agile values and principles
Agile frameworks and terminology
Agile methods and approaches
Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
Stakeholder management
Communication management
Facilitation methods
Knowledge sharing/written communication
Leadership
Building agile teams
Team motivation
Physical and virtual co-location
Global, cultural, and team diversity
Training, coaching, and mentoring
Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)
Self-assessment tools and techniques
Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)
Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
Problem solving
Prioritization
Incremental delivery
Agile discovery
Agile sizing and estimation
Value based analysis and decomposition
Process analysis
Continuous improvement
Agile hybrid models
Managing with agile KPIs
Agile project chartering
Agile contracting
Agile project accounting principles
Regulatory compliance
PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
PMI, PMI-ACP, PMP and PgMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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Training centre hours and amenities:
The Edmonton Training Centre opens at 8:00 AM. Classes begin promptly at 8:30 AM and conclude by 5:00 PM unless otherwise directed. Business casual attire is appropriate.
Morning and afternoon snacks, complimentary coffee, tea, and hot chocolate are provided daily. A comfortable breakroom and internet terminals are also available.
The course An Introduction to Agile Development (Agile Training) :: THIS SETC Certified course provides participants with a solid introduction to the Agile method. Beginning with the concept of iterative development, the course discusses the basic principles that are shared by all Agile.
PMI-ACP® is one of the most credible certifications sought after by employers in Agile Project Management. It demonstrates your ability to optimize processes during projects and manage change in real time in a highly collaborative and adaptive way.
Agile project management was created as an approach that drives value and enables Agile Professionals to deliver topnotch work to stakeholders. This project management system is basically an iteration of an approach that involves the planning and supervision.
With this course, you’ll learn to effectively implement Agile practices that require a paradigm shift, which include a new mindset and new techniques.
This program is directed to prepare participants for PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) exam. Along the way, participants discuss and review aspects of Agile delivery extensively. With this knowledge, individuals are better able to work with Agile projects and product delivery for their org...
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