PMI-ACP Agile Certified Scrum Master Training at Houston,Texas, USA

The PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) is a new credential offered by the PMI for people working in Agile project management environments. The PMI-ACP carries a high level of professional standing and credibility as it requires the combination of Agile training, experience, and the PMI ACP Certification examination.

                             If you use agile practices in your projects, or your organization is adopting agile approaches to project management, this 2 day session and the PMI-ACP certification may be right for you.

What You Can Expect: The PMI-ACP recognizes knowledge of agile principles, practices and techniques across Agile methodologies. This 2 day session challenges new and seasoned Agile practitioners to explore what it takes to successfully apply Agile methods to their teams, projects and programs. In addition to providing the full spectrum of Agile principles, practices and techniques, this material is designed to cover all the areas needed to successfully pass the PMI-ACP Exam.

Your Course of Study:

 Agile tools and techniques - 50% of total PMI-ACP Exam questions 

•         Communication

•         Planning, monitoring and adapting

•         Agile estimation

•         Agile analysis and design

•         Product quality

•         Soft skills negotiation

•         Value-based prioritization

•         Risk management

•         Metrics

•         Value stream analysis

 Agile knowledge and skills - 50% of total PMI-ACPSM Exam questions

Level 1 (33% of total exam questions)

•         Active listening

•         Agile Manifesto value and principles

•         Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values

•         Brainstorming techniques

•         Building empowered teams

•         Coaching and mentoring within teams

•         Communications management

•         Feedback techniques for product (e.g. prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)

•         Incremental delivery

•         Knowledge sharing

•         Leadership tools and techniques

•         Prioritization

•         Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques

•         Project and quality standards for Agile projects

•         Stakeholder management

Level 2 (12% of total exam questions)

•         Agile frameworks and terminology

•         Building high-performance teams

•         Business case development

•         Colocation (geographic proximity/distributed teams)

•         Continuous improvement processes

•         Elements of a project charter for an Agile project

•         Facilitation methods

•         Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based. Shared collaboration, command)

•         PMI™s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

•         Self-assessment

•         Value-based analysis

Level 3 (5% of total exam questions)

•         Agile contracting methods

•         Agile project accounting principles

•         Applying new Agile practices

•         Compliance (organization)

•         Control limits for Agile projects

•         Failure modes and alternatives    

•         Principles of systems thinking (e.g. complex adaptive, chaos)

•         Regulatory compliance

•         Variations in Agile methods and approaches

•         Vendor management  

Who Is Right for the Course: Individuals or groups looking to implement Agile project management practices in their environments, Agile practitioners wishing to gain a credential reflecting their professional achievement The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner training course provides 21 PDUs for participants who are PMP Certified for their CCRS requirements.

Prerequisites: Candidates must hold the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification -or- 2000 hours of documented Project Management experience. In addition, candidates must have at least 1500 document hours of Agile Project Management experience (non overlapping with the aforementioned 2000 hours) prior to sitting for the PMI-ACP Exam.

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• Organiser

• Pradeep

• Date

• 2013-05-31 00:00:00