PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP Exam Prep)

The Project Management Institute (PMI)® launched the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Agile Certification in 2011. This designation was built with the same rigors as the rest of the PMI certification family to provide comparable credibility for professionals who practice Agile methodologies in their organizations and during their projects

The PMI-ACP formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles & your skill with agile techniques. The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). In this powerful course, you'll gain and understand the concepts, principles, and methods of Agile development and become empowered to execute your plans for incorporating Agile practices and techniques into your organization.

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 prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort and 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 testing situations. Questions are designed to allow you to learn through practice so that you will be able to apply what you have known for the exam.

Course Outlines

Introduction

- Why Agile Project Management

- Project Management Industry Trends

- Value of this PMI-ACP training

- What Is An Agile Project Manager

- PMI-ACP Eligibility & Requirements

- PMI Exam Overview & Contents

- Exam Domains

Domain 1 : Agile Principles & Mindset

- Advocate for agile principles and values in the organization

- Ensure a common understanding of agile principles

- Educate and influence agile

- Transparency equates to trust

- Safe environment for experimenting

- Experiment with new techniques and processes

- Share knowledge of new collaboration

- Emergent leadership

- Practice servant leadership

Domain 2 : Value-Driven Delivery

- Overview of the Value-driven Delivery

- Value-driven Delivery Principles

- Financial Assessment Metrics

- Prioritization overview

- Prioritization techniques

- Delivering Incrementally

- Minimal Viable Product

- Reprioritization or relative prioritization

- Agile compliance

- Agile tools

- Agile contracts

Domain 3 : Stakeholder Engagement

- Working with the project stakeholders

- Establishing a shared vision

- Creating collaboration

- Communicating with project stakeholders

- Using interpersonal skills

- Engage and empower business stakeholders

- Share information frequently with all stakeholders

- Form working agreements for participation

- Assess organizational changes to maintain a stakeholder engagement

- Used collaborative decision-making and conflict resolution

- Establish a shared vision for project stakeholders

- Maintain a shared understanding of project success

- Provide transparency for better decisions

- Balance certainty and adaptability for better planning

Domain 4 : Team Performance

- Develop team rules and processes to foster buy-in

- Help grow the team's interpersonal and technical skills

- Use generalizing specialist

- Empower and encourage emergent leadership

- Learn team motivators and demotivators

- Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams

- Team Empowerment

- Encourage communication via collocation in collaboration tools

- Shield the team from distractions

- Align team by sharing project vision

- Anchor team to measure velocity for capacity and forecast

Domain 5 : Adaptive Planning

- What Is Adaptive Planning?

- Progressive elaboration and rolling wave planning

- Transparent planning and key stakeholders

- Managing expectations by refining plans

- Adjusting planning cadence based on project factors and results

- Inspect and adapt the plans to changing events

- Size items first independently of team velocity

- Adjust capacity for maintenance and operations demands to update estimates

- Start planning with high-level scope schedule and cost range estimates

- Refine ranges as the project progresses

- Use actuals to refine the estimate to complete

Domain 6 : Problem Detection & Resolution

- Create a safe and open environment to surface problems

- Engage the team in resolving threats and issues

- Resolve issues or reset expectations

- Maintain a visible list of threats and issues

- Maintain a threat list and add threat remediation efforts to the backlog

Domain 7 : Continuous Improvement

- Periodically review and tailor the process

- Improve team processes through retrospectives

- Seek product feedback via frequent demonstrations

- Create an environment for continued learning

- Used values dream analysis to improve processes

- Spread improvements to other groups in the organization