PMI-ACP “Agile Certified Practitioner” Exam Preparation

Agile & Digital Innovation Training

PMI-ACP “Agile Certified Practitioner” Exam Preparation

Available since October 24, 2021
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Category

Agile & Digital Innovation Training

Duration

24 Hours

Course description

The PMI-ACP is the most recognized Agile certificate in the global market, it is introduced by PMI which is the most well-known institute for the project management.
This Online interactive class provides you with the required knowledge of agile principles & strengthen your skills with agile techniques, and application methodologies.

Target audience

• Project Managers
• Project Planners
• Quality Assurance Staff
• Developers / Programmers
• Designers
• Testers
• Project Controllers
• Product Owners
• Scrum Masters
• Scrum Team Members
In addition, this course is suitable for anyone who's looking to gain knowledge of managing agile projects and understand how Agile is applied and practiced in a project environment.

Course requirements

The course has no prerequisites. So any participant can attend to gain the full knowledge. Yet, for registering in the official PMI-ACP exam afterwards, participants should earn the below professional working hours:

Exam Requirements:
All participants should have at least 2,000 hours (12 months) working experience on projects, This experience must have been earned in the last 5 years.
In addition, they should have worked for at least 1,500 hours (8 months) on Agile projects or with Agile methodologies.

Delivery Schedule

Virtual Instructor-led Workshop:

Sunday : 14-April from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)
Wednesday: 17-April from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)
Sunday: 21- April from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)
Wednesday: 24-April from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)
Sunday: 28-April from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)
Wednesday: 01- May from 6-10 PM (GMT+2)

Course Deliverables:

• 24 hours of professional training with a certified instructor
• Softcopy of the course material
• All participants will be eligible to book 1 hour exam preparation session with the class instructor before registering to the official PMI-ACP exam to help with more tips and study notes on how to pass and get officially certified.
• End of class completion certificate, stating the total number of development hours (24 hours).

Course teachers

Haitham Zaki

Haitham is a leading professional with 17 years of experience, has proved his stance in the industry of Project Management and Agile Coaching over the course of his career in several industries. Haitham has delivered hundreds of training programs to thousands of participants with exceptional feedback and very valuable outcomes. In addition, He is a project management and agile lecturer in different universities helping to introduce the new management techniques and roles to the educational community.

Haitham Zaki
Haitham Zaki

Course Plan

Section 01

Workshop 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
Section 02

Domain 1 : Agile Principles & Mindset

  • Advocate for agile principles and values in the organization
  • Ensure 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 new collaboration
  • Emergent leadership
  • Practice servant leadership
Section 03

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
Section 04

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
Section 05

Domain 4 : Team Performance

  • Develop team rules and processes to foster buy in
  • Help grow team 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 team from distractions
  • Align team by sharing project vision
  • Anchor team to measure velocity for capacity and forecast
Section 06

Domain 5 : 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
Section 07

Domain 6 : Problem Detection & Resolution

  • What Is Adaptive Planning?
  • Create a safe an open environment to surface problems
  • Engage 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
Section 08

Domain 7 : Continuous Improvement

  • What Is Adaptive Planning?
  • 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

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