Agile Certified Practitioner

Audience:

If you work on agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices, the PMI-ACP is a good choice for you. Compared with other agile certifications based solely on training and exams, the PMI-ACP is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill.

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Description

The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers.  The PMI-ACP® is our fastest growing certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully than their slower-moving counterparts 75 percent versus 56 percent as shown in our 2015 Pulse of the Profession® report.  The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) So it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.

Course Outline

I. Agile Framework

• Why Agile Methods?
• Agile vs. Traditional
• Project Management
• Agile Manifesto –Values and Principles
• The Agile Triangle
• Usage Level Roles in Agile
• Variants in Agile (Scrum, XP, Crystal, DSDM, or FDD)

II. Scrum

• What is Scrum
• Scrum Origins   
• Scrum Legs/ Three Pillars (Transparency, inspection & adaptation)        
• Scrum Cycle Summary        
• Scrum team -Roles of Scrum Team (Product Owner, Development Team, Scrum Master)        
• Scrum Events/Meetings/Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement)         
• Scrum Artifacts (Product Backlog, Product Backlog Item (PBI), Sprint Task, Sprint Burn-down Chart, Product/release Burn Down Chart)        

III.      Extreme Programming (XP)

•   What is XP
•   Values Principles
•    Practices
•    The XP Team
•    Roles
•    The Theory of Constraints

IV.      Other Agile Methods

•    Future-Driven Development (FDD)
•    Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
•    Crystal
•  Lean Software Development
•   Kanban Development         

V. Tools and Techniques

•   Communications
•    Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting
•    Agile Estimation
•    Agile Analysis and Design
•    Product Quality
•    Soft Skills Negotiation
•    Value-based Prioritization
•    Risk Management
•    Metrics
•    Value Stream Analysis

VI.      Closing Review

•    PMI-ACP Application Review
•    Domain Reviews
•   Tips and study recommendation on how to pass in a first try
•   Recommended reading
•   Other key Concept and comprehensive review