PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Boot Camp

This class not only prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort, but ensures that you're prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam.

Course Outline

Prepare for your Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification while learning to lead Agile software projects that adapt to change, drive innovation and deliver on-time business value.
To stay relevant in the competitive, changing world of project management, it's important that project management professionals can demonstrate true leadership on today's software projects. The Project Management Institute's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or potential employers that you're ready to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery.

Course Outline
1.Understanding Agile Project Management

-Agile Principles and How They Relate to Project Management
-Agile Benefits

2.Forming the Agile Team
-Team Roles and Responsibilities
-Self Organization

3.The Agile Coach
-Role of the Agile PM or Agile Coach
-PMI's Code of Ethics

4.Agile Planning
-Product Vision
-Product Road Map

5.Focus on the Customer
-Customer Involvement
-Creating and Using Personas

6.Creating and Maintaining the Product Backlog
-The Product Backlog
-INVEST Model (Bill Wake, 2003)

7.Prioritizing the Product Backlog
-Decision Matrix
-Continuous Prioritization

8.Agile Estimating
-Relative vs. Actual Estimating
-Planning Poker (Grenning 2002)

9.Agile Release Planning
-What is a Release?
-Building the Release Plan

10.User Story Review
-Getting to the Details
-Methods for Documenting the Details

11.Iteration Planning and Execution
-Daily Scrum/Stand-Up
-Demonstrating Working Software

12.Measuring and Communicating Progress
-Burndown and Burnup Charts
-Agile Earned Value Management

13.Retrospectives
-Tips for Effective Retrospectives
-Review of Empirical Process Control

14.Advanced Agile Concepts
-User Story Mapping
-An Introduction to Kanban

15.Adopting Agile Project Management
-Agile Calendar of Events
-Challenges to Agile Adoption

16.Preparation for the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification Exam
-What to Expect on Exam Day
-In-depth Review for the Exam

Training Location

Virtual
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Your City, Your Province
Your Country