PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner
Course number: CGIPMIACP40
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers.
The PMI-ACP® is our fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully than their slower-moving counterparts — 75 percent versus 56 percent — as shown in our 2015 Pulse of the Profession® report.
The PMI-ACP® spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) It will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
Prerequisites
- A minimum of a high school diploma
- 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement, but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP®.
- 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years
Target Audience
- Managers and members of project teams who currently use or plan to adopt agile techniques
- Existing PMP®s who wish to add on the PMI-ACP to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to lead both traditional and agile projects
- Individuals who have general project management experience and are using agile practices in their projects
Certification
PMI-ACP® from PMI
Exam
PMI-ACP® Exam
• The certification exam has 120 multiple-choice questions, and you will have three hours to complete it.
• The PMI-ACP® exam is currently based on the Seventh Edition of the PMBOK® Guide, and PMI's Agile Practice Guide (2017).
Accreditation
This course qualifies for 21 PDUs or 21 Contact Hours for candidates pursuing PMI-ACP® Certification. PMI requires you to have 21 contact hours to apply for the PMI-ACP® exam.
Course Outline
- Introduction to the PMI-ACP® Exam
- Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions
- Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI’s six domains of Agile development
- Implementing Value-Driven Delivery
- Defining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
- Leveraging rapid feedback cycles
- Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
- Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing on the Definition of Done
- Maintaining Stakeholder Engagement
- Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
- Promoting effective collaboration and participation
- Enabling knowledge sharing
- Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria
- Boosting Team Performance Practices
- Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision-making
- Influencing teams to design their own internal work processes
- Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
- Creating safe environments for experimentation
- Raising productivity by eliminating waste
- Coaching styles that foster skill enhancement
- Implementing Adaptive Planning
- Applying rolling wave planning
- Leveraging progressive elaboration
- Balancing priorities and team capabilities
- Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness
- Refining estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
- Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
- Controlling costs through quantitative measures
- Problem Detection and Resolution
- Time Boxing to focus on immediate issues
- Engaging the team proactively to identify risks and create mitigation strategies
- Ensuring impediments are resolved and stakeholder expectations are adjusted
- Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
- Managing features and technical issues with Backlog
- Facilitating Continuous Improvement
- Conducting retrospectives to improve the team’s behavior
- Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas
- Removing nonvalue-adding processes
- Reducing Work in Progress (WIP)
- Preparing to Pass the Exam
- Defining your exam preparation strategy
- Gaining insight into the exam format and process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Optimizing your study time and focus
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