PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

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Duration

3 Days

18 CPD hours

About this course

This course is designed for project leaders, scrum masters, coaches, product owners, and team members who intend on taking the PMI-ACP© exam.

Overview

Upon successful completion of this course, you will know:
Agile principles and practices that will enhance team productivity and improve customer satisfaction
How to create transparent communication among stakeholders
How to manage project's scope, schedule and budget in an Agile environment
How to maximize business value and deliver most value early in the project
How to build high-performing team
How to plan at multiple levels and manage stakeholders' expectations
How to detect, track and resolve risks in an Agile project

Description

This course provides participants with a solid foundation of the PMI-ACP© exam. Participants will be introduced to PMI Agile concepts and practices.

Introduction to the PMI-ACP© Course and ExamAgile Principles and Mindset
  • Agile project Management Framework:
  • What is Agility
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Principles
  • Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming (XP), Lean
  • Agile leadership
  • Agile process overview
Value-Driven Delivery
  • What is Value-driven delivery, how to deliver value early and minimize waste
  • Assessing Value - Return on Investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), Internal rate of return (IRR), earned value management, managing risk
  • Value Based prioritization Customer-Valued prioritization, prioritization schemes (Kano analysis, MoSCoW, relative prioritization / ranking
  • Delivering incrementally Minimal Viable Product (MVP), Minimal marketable Feature (MMF), Work In progress (WIP), WIP Limits, Bottlenecks, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
  • Contracting in Agile projects
  • Verification and validation
Stakeholder Engagement
  • Identifying project stakeholders
  • Managing stakeholder engagement
  • Establishing a shared vision Agile chartering, Definition of 'Done' (DoD), Agile modelling, wireframes, personas
  • Communication Management face to face communication, two-way communication, knowledge sharing, information radiators, social media
  • Working collaboratively workshops, brainstorming, collaboration games
  • Interpersonal skills for Agile success emotional intelligence, active listening, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, participatory decision making
Team Performance
  • Agile team roles
  • High-performing Agile teams stages of team development
  • Adaptive leadership
  • Creating collaborative team spaces co-located teams, osmotic communication, distributed teams
  • Tracking team performance in Agile teams burn charts, velocity
Adaptive Planning
  • Defining adaptive planning
  • Principles of Agile planning
  • Tools for sizing and estimating
  • Releases and Iterations planning
Problem Detection nd Resolution
  • How problems impact a project
  • Detecting problems lead time and cycle time, defects, variance analysis, trend analysis, control limits
  • Managing projects threats and issues risk-adjusted backlog, risk severity, risk burndown graphs
  • Solving problems
Continuous Improvement
  • Multiple levels of improvement processes, product, people
  • Implementing continuous process improvement process tailoring, systems thinking, process analysis, value stream mapping, project pre-mortems
  • Working towards continuous product improvement product feedback loops and learning cycle
  • Leading continuous people improvement retrospectives, team self-assessments
PMI-ACP© Exam Preparation
  • PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars Overview
  • PMI-ACP© Exam Particulars
  • PMI-ACP© Candidate Requirements
  • PMI-ACP© Candidate Fees
  • PMI-ACP© Exam Application Process
Additional course details:

Nexus Humans PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward.

This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts.

Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.

While we feel this is the best course for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.

Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Training Insurance Included!

When you organise training, we understand that there is a risk that some people may fall ill, become unavailable. To mitigate the risk we include training insurance for each delegate enrolled on our public schedule, they are welcome to sit on the same Public class within 6 months at no charge, if the case arises.

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