PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Project, Program & Portfolio Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

PMI-ACP recognizes the knowledge of agile principles, practices and tools and techniques across agile methodologies. If

you already use agile practices or your organization is adopting agile methods, earning the PMI-ACP certification will

demonstrate your knowledge of and commitment to this rapidly growing approach to project management.

This three days course is designed to train you to be effective project managers using Agile methodologies by imparting

students with the ten tools and techniques and 43 knowledge and skills areas. By engaging in these concepts,

exercises, discussions and real-world examples, you will better understand Agile project management.

Before preparing students for the examination, the course also fulfils the PMI requirement of 21 contact hours which

student needs to have before applying for the PMI- ACP Certification examination.

A PMI-ACP credential holder will need to earn 30 PDUs in agile project management per three-year cycle.

Description

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this course, you will learn about:

 Agile development lifecycle end to end with real-world examples,
 Compare Agile development practices to the traditional approaches for project management,
 Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban and Lean),
 How to build self-organizing high performing teams,
 Real-world techniques for planning, estimating and prioritizing requirements in an Agile way,
 Learn how to engage your business customers and delight them through early and frequent delivery of value,
 Requirements gathering through vision, product road map, collaboration, brainstorming, defining high level
user stories (Epics) and defining acceptance tests,
 Key Agile Project management processes of release planning, iteration planning, iterations monitoring and
meetings, along with other factors such as prioritizations using different techniques,
 Create effective visible Agile tracking reports using burn downs, burn up etc,
 Get understanding advanced topics such as scaling Agile to large projects, distributed teams and lean portfolio
management, and
 Prepare participants to pass the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP examination.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Agile project managers, Scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, developers, testers, IT leaders, project

stakeholders, and other team members interested in passing the PMI-ACP certification exam.

PREREQUISITES

For a good learning experience with this course, you are required to have:

 2,000 hours working on project teams within the last 5 years or PMP certification
 Additional of 1500 hours working on agile project teams or with Agile methodologies within the last 3 years,
 21 contact hours of education this must be earned in Agile practices

COURSE OUTLINE

PMI-ACP Certification and Exam Format

Overview of Examination/ Overview of Agile Tools And Techniques

Agile Project Visioning, Project Initiation Setting a Stage
Multiple Levels of Planning (Release Planning, Iteration Planning, Portfolio Planning)
Time Boxing
Agile Burndown and Burnup Charts
Agile Cumulative Flow Diagrams
Agile Kanban Boards
Agile Retrospectives