Agile Project Management is one of the fastest growing areas of project management and methodologies. This intensive compressed PMI-ACP® Exam Preparation Class is comprehensive, accelerated, and focused on the objective of preparing students with the knowledge and techniques they need to pass PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner certification exam. You will benefit from three days of intense study and all the necessary instruction, materials and post-class support you need to pass. This course includes:
Expert facilitation
Professional student workbook
Over 500 sample exam questions
Personalised assistance with your application (via email)
Personalised pre and post course support (via email)
Target Audience:
This class is for project managers, functional managers, project leaders, business analysts, and anyone else who has an interest to learn practices of Agile Project Management. While there are no pre-requisites for taking this three day course, there are pre-requisites for individuals to qualify to take the PMI-ACP exam through PMI (Project Management Institute).
Key Participant Benefits:
Many project professionals are seeing a demand for Agile practices in a variety of industries and organisations, and are eager to learn and apply them. PMI research revealed: 68% of the organisations using Agile techniques would find value in an Agile certification and 63% of hiring managers would encourage their project managers to pursue an Agile certification.
Key Business Benefits
Organisations, too, are seeing value in using Agile practices to deliver projects more quickly, with less wasted labor and costs due to misunderstood or ill-defined requirements.
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will:
Understand the framework and principles of Agile
Differentiate the various Agile frameworks
Understand and describe the tools and techniques necessary for the exam
Estimate initial team velocity (Points per iteration)
Sprint Planning Meeting
Determining the Sprint Goal.
Creating Sprint Backlog
Determining units of complexity.
Spike Solutions
Planning Poker
Scheduling prediction
Module 4: Executing a Scrum Project
Open Access to Information
Daily Standup Meeting
Information Radiator
Retrospectives and Showcases
Understand and review the BVCs
Impediments and Impediment Cards
Sprint Review – End of Sprint
Module 5: Controlling a Scrum Project
Sprint burndown chart
Release burndown chart
Project or Product Burnout Chart
Cumulative Flow Charts
Risk Burndown Graph
Risk Register (Also known as Risk Census)
Reporting to Senior Management
Module 6: Introduction to XP Methodology
Key principles that can apply to any project
The XP release cycle
XP Role: Customer, the XP Coach
Incremental builds Customer involvement
Participatory Design
Refactoring and
Test-first (test-driven) development
KANBAN Boards in XP
Module 7: Introduction to RUP Methodology
Inception
Scenarios and Use Cases
Use Case Diagrams
Elaboration, Construction
Transition
Module 8: PMI-ACP Exam Review
The final ½ day of training will be dedicated to helping students prepare for passing the PMI-ACP exam. Those who want to take the exam will receive access to an exam simulation engine as well. Those who do not want to take the exam, can use this half day to self-test their knowledge and understanding.
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