PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Boot Camp (AA-PMI-ACP-USA)

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.

PMI, PMI-ACP, PMP and PgMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

• 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:
    1. Introductions
    2. Objectives
    3. Working Agreements
    4. 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:
    1. Agile analysis and design
    2. Agile estimation
    3. Communications
    4. Interpersonal skills
    5. Metrics
    6. Planning, monitoring, and adapting
    7. Process improvement
    8. Product quality
    9. Risk management
    10. 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:
    1. Agile values and principles
    2. Agile frameworks and terminology
    3. Agile methods and approaches
    4. Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
    5. Stakeholder management
    6. Communication management
    7. Facilitation methods
    8. Knowledge sharing/written communication
    9. Leadership
    10. Building agile teams
    11. Team motivation
    12. Physical and virtual co-location
    13. Global, cultural, and team diversity
    14. Training, coaching, and mentoring
    15. Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)
    16. Self-assessment tools and techniques
    17. Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)
    18. Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
    19. Problem solving
    20. Prioritization
    21. Incremental delivery
    22. Agile discovery
    23. Agile sizing and estimation
    24. Value based analysis and decomposition
    25. Process analysis
    26. Continuous improvement
    27. Agile hybrid models
    28. Managing with agile KPIs
    29. Agile project chartering
    30. Agile contracting
    31. Agile project accounting principles
    32. Regulatory compliance
    33. PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

PMI, PMI-ACP, PMP and PgMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

• Learn precisely what you will need to know in order to pass the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMIñACP) 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

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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