Fundamentals of Agile: PMI-ACP Prep

UPCOMING Session

Course Description:

Join the early-adopters who are seeking to boost their careers by preparing for the new agile certification from PMI. Experience world-class training from the same thought-leaders who partook in the design of the PMI Agile certification program and learning objectives. This prep course will provide you with new skills and tools that will deliver value when applied to your projects.

Learn from the best! Experience the ONLY course designed by 3 of the members of the PMI-Agile certification steering committee.

Take a 3-day journey through an engaging combination of discussion, group interaction, case studies and Real World focused workshops. You will learn not only how to apply Agile, but will gain the experience necessary to immediately implement Agile practices that are appropriate for your teams. Better yet, this course was designed to cover all the 10 tools and techniques, and 43 knowledge skill areas you need to learn to pass the new PMI Agile Practitioner Certification. 

As you attend the class, you will also cover all the fundamentals of Agile learning objectives set forth by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) and become a certified ICAgile Associate once you complete the course and the associated exam.

Target Audience: Everyone on your team...

• Project Managers
• Team Leads
• Business Analysts
• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Pre-Sales & Contracting
• Developers & Architects
• UI & UX designers
• Testers & QA
• Process Improvement
• Account Managers
• Engagement Managers

EXAM AND CERTIFICATION

Participants of this 3-day workshop will gain an understanding of the PMI Agile certification process and how to prepare for the PMI-ACP certification exam. This course was designed to cover all of the 10 tools and techniques, and 43 knowledge skill areas you need to learn for the PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner exam. 

Upon completing this course, attendees will earn the ICAgile Associate credential acknowledging their apprehension of the learning objectives of the Fundamentals of Agile track within the ICAgile Roadmap.

Participants of PMI-ACP Prep Course are eligible to earn 21 Agile Professional Development Units (Agile PDUs) upon successful completion of the class.

Knowledge and Skills Learned

Covers the 10 tools and techniques, and 43 knowledge skill areas you need for the PMI-ACP exam.. The topics covered in this class include:

• Active listening                                              
• Agile frameworks and terminology      
• Agile contracting methods
• Agile Manifesto values & principles      
• Building high-performance teams         
• Agile project accounting principles
• Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values               
• Business case development                    
• Applying new Agile practices
• Brainstorming techniques
• Colocation (geographic proximity)/distributed teams
• Compliance (organization)
• Building empowered teams
• Continuous improvement processes   
• Control limits for Agile projects
• Coaching and mentoring within teams
• Elements of a project charter for an Agile project
• Failure modes and alternatives
• Communications management
• Facilitation methods
• Globalization, culture, and team diversity
• Feedback techniques for product (e.g., prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)
• Participatory decision models (e.g., input based, shared collaboration, command)
• Innovation games
• Incremental delivery
• PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Principles of systems thinking (e.g., complex adaptive, chaos)
• Knowledge sharing
• Process analysis techniques
• Regulatory compliance
• Leadership tools and techniques
• Self-assessment
• Variance and trend analysis
• Prioritization
• Value-base analysis
• Variations in Agile methods and approaches
• Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques
• Vendor management
• Project and quality standards for Agile projects
• Stakeholder management
• Team motivation
• Time, budget, and cost estimation
• Value-based decomposition and prioritization
  
  

Venue:

• US Public Classes will be conducted in Reston, VA will take place in Santeon Training Facility  (the coolest training center in town)
• International Public Classes will be conducted in Egypt or other countries will be held in a four- or five-star hotel
• Private classes will be announced to the respective attendees