Agile Project Management Certification Workshop

Course Overview

PMI ACP is the world’s fastest growing agile certification. Today, more organizations and companies are seeing the value of adopting the agile approach over a more traditional waterfall methodology, and more are working every day to make the transition.

As organizations recognize the advantages of adopting agile also recognize the capabilities of those professionals they need to have to enable the agile transition. PMI-ACP certification will allow you to demonstrate that agile professional skillset to your peers, stakeholder and employers, both current and future.

If you are experienced using agile approaches and want to stay relevant in the competitive, professional world, it is increasingly important that you can demonstrate true leadership ability on today's projects. The Project Management Institute's (PMI)® Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques.

Using a proven combination of class learning, activities and testing, this PMI-ACP training course prepares you for some of the most difficult testing situations. Exercises and questions are used to allow you to learn through practical experience so that you will be able to apply what you have learned for the exam.

PMI® and (PMI-ACP)® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Target Audience

•  Agile Professionals
• Project managers
• Program managers
• Analysts
• Developers
• Testers
• IT managers/directors
• Software engineers
• Software architects
• Software managers
• Testing managers
• Team leaders

Course Objectives

 After completion of the course, students will be equipped with the knowledge of PMI-ACP skills to be able to:

• Become expert in the knowledge required to pass the new Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam
• Apply agile principles will transform team performance, deliver outcomes and improve customer satisfaction
• Lever your leadership ability to genuinely empower and inspire your collaborative team
• Improve stakeholder engagement including inside the team as well as with customers
• Empower and enable your teams to deliver excellent results for customers, through high-performance execution
• Apply agile techniques to manage a project's scope and value to help better ensure the delivery of an optimum product, not just the product that was initially conceived
• Create collective mindsets, open to change and enabling change to benefit project performance
• Evaluate how new approaches to manage project scope, schedule, budget and quality are easily improved through the use of effective agile controls
• Realize the potential of the project team, where better accuracy is a result of being less precise
• Combine best methods from multiple agile methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum etc. to apply to your team’s approach
• Improve Customer collaboration and welcome challenge for better results
• Foster a culture of trust within your team and your Customers through the application of open and consistent common sense best practices
• Utilize the power of metrics to ensure that teams continuously improve their development and delivery
• Learn out to lead the team away from the pitfalls many teams fall into when adopting agile practices
• Apply powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing agile team
• Lead the transition from a command and control leadership style to the more powerful “servant leadership” method of management
• Build a reactive and responsive culture that embraces change quickly and effectively to seize competitive advantage for your customer
• Learn how to deliver success even when challenged with unforgiving environments and rapidly changing context

Course Content

About the PMI-ACP Exam

The Agile Mindset

• What is agile?
• Why use agile?
• Approaches to agile

Value-Driven Delivery

• Defining value
• Minimizing waste and risk
• Prioritizing value delivery

Stakeholder Engagement

• Understanding stakeholder needs
• Ensuring stakeholder involvement
• Managing stakeholder expectations

Team Performance

• Team formation
• Team empowerment
• Collaboration and commitment

Adaptive Planning

• Levels of planning
• Adaptation
• Sizing and estimation

Problem Detection and Resolution

• Identifying and documenting risk and issues
• Resolving issues and adapting the plan

Continuous Improvement

• Improving products
• Improving processes
• Improving people
• Improving the organization

Getting Ready for Your Exam

Course Prerequisites

Familiarity with Agile processes and methodology would be advantageous

• Introduction to Agile

Test Certification

This course will prepare the students to take and successfully pass the PMI ACP exam. (Subject to the requirements for eligibility.) The Exam is given through PMI following the course. Student is responsible to register and sit the exam independently.

Follow on Courses

 The following course is recommended for further study:

• Certified Scrum Master