PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Certification Training
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| 📆 PMI ACP Training Schedule: IN-PERSON CLASSROOM DUBAI 🕣 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM | Jul 22 – 24 (Mon-Fri) 📅 3 Weekdays |
| 📆 PMI ACP Training Schedule: IN-PERSON CLASSROOM DUBAI 🕣 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM | Aug 20 – 22 (Tue-Thu) 📅 3 Weekdays |
Course Details
Attend our 3 days PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Certification Training and get ready to become PMI-ACP certified. Our extensive Agile course will bring you up to speed on Agile principles and techniques . The knowledge gained makes you shine brighter in your Organization. The PMI-ACP course is designed to include what is taught in Scrum Master course, besides including other Agile approaches like XP (used by Google), Lean, etc.
Agile is a topic of growing importance in project management. The marketplace reflects this importance, as project management practitioners increasingly embrace agile as a technique for managing successful projects. The PMI-ACP certification recognizes an individual’s expertise in using agile practices in their projects, while demonstrating their increased professional versatility through agile tools and techniques. In addition, the PMI-ACP certification carries a higher level of professional credibility as it requires a combination of agile training, experience working on agile projects, and examination on agile principles, practices, tools, and techniques. This global certification also supports individuals in meeting the needs of organizations that rely on project practitioners to apply a diversity of methods to their project management.
Our PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP) course is updated as per the PMI-ACP Exam launched on 26 March 2018, which harmonizes with terminology in the Agile Practice Guide.
Our PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) training will enable you to become a skilled agile professional with knowledge and skills in agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming and test-driven development.
ACP is PMI’s fastest-growing certification.
Also, if you are looking for PMP Training, checkout our Project Management Professional Certification Preparation course!
- Gain in-depth knowledge of Agile Manifesto, its methodologies, principles, tools, and techniques
- Understand the Scrum Framework and artefacts, roles and responsibilities
- Learn to mitigate risks and seize competitive advantage
- Learn the Agile best practices and concepts to ensure project goals are met within time and budget constraints
- Get a thorough understanding of developing soft skills such as emotional intelligence, collaboration, conflict relationship and others
- Prepare to pass the PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP exam)
- Navigate the tools and techniques exam sections and the knowledge and skills exam areas
- Compare Agile development practices to the classical approaches for project management
- Review relevant topics in the PMI® suggested reference materials for exam preparation
Agile Principles and Mindset
- Why Use Agile?
- The Agile Mindset
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile Methodologies that you will learn in this course
- Scrum
- XP
- Lean Product Development
- Kanban
- Feature Driven Development
- Dynamic Systems Development Method
- Crystal
- Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI’s six domains of Agile development
Value-Driven Delivery
- Focusing on business value
- Defining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
- Leveraging rapid feedback cycles
- Ensuring progressive elaboration of requirements
- Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
- Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing the Definition of Done
Stakeholder Engagement
- Engaging empowered business stakeholders
- Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
- Promoting effective collaboration and participation
- Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions
- Enabling knowledge sharing
- Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria
Team Performance
- Forming cross-functional teams
- Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision making
- Influencing teams to design their own internal work processes
- Empowering teams to self organize
- Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
- Creating safe environments that allow teams to experiment
- Developing high performance teams
- Raising productivity by eliminating waste
- Coaching and mentoring styles that foster skill enhancement
Adaptive Planning
- Planning at multiple levels
- Applying rolling wave planning
- Leveraging progressive elaboration
- Employing empirical planning
- Balancing priorities and team capabilities
- Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness
- Applying Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)
- Refining estimate ranges to reflect current levels of uncertainty
- Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
- Controlling costs through quantitative measures
Problem Detection and Resolution
- Recognizing and mitigating risks
- 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
- Communicating risks and impediments
- Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
- Managing features, technical issues and defects with Backlog
Continuous Improvement
- Tailoring the process
- Conducting frequent retrospectives to improve the team’s behavior
- Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas
- Evaluating work efficiency
- Removing no value adding processes
- Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)
- 3 Day classroom workshop focussing on PMI ACP exam preparation
- Hard Copy of PMI-ACP Exam Guide
- 3 Mock Exams
- PMI-ACP Application Assistance
- 21 Contact Hours Certificate
- Coffee, Tea and light refreshments
- Lunch (if in Hotel)
General Project Experience | 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. |
Agile Project Experience | 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years |
Training in Agile Practices | 21 Contact Hours |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Register to become a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) (Note: Total Registration Fees: $139. PMI-ACP Discount is only $60).
- Take our PMI-ACP Exam Prep Course to satisfy the required 21 contact hours (PDUs) education requirement.
- Submit your PMI-ACP application through the PMI website & pay the fee.
- Schedule your exam with Prometric.
- Take and Pass the PMI-ACP Exam
The PMI-ACP Exam features 120 questions, of which only 100 are scored. PMI does not publish a specific score that is required to pass the exam, but ACP exam has a higher passing score, about 15% higher than PMP.
The PMI-ACP questions are few lines only, pretty much unlike PMP that are long and lengthy, but the answers are almost alike and difficult to get unless you have an Agile mindset. The Right Training goes a long way in providing guidance and helping you fill your gaps!
The certification exam has 120 multiple-choice questions and you have three hours to complete it.
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- Our Classes are full of group exercises and practical hands-on sessions.
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