Global duration: from 1 to 3 months

3-Days PMI-ACP® exam preparation course:

• Day 1: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
• Day 2: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
• Day 3: 9:00 - 17:00 (1 - hour lunch)

Personalized study plan: from 4 to 12 weeks

Official test session via Skype with interactive correction and discussion:

• Test #1: 40 exam questions (1 hour)
• Test #2: 80 exam questions (2 hours)

Official exam simulation session via Skype with interactive correction and discussion:

• Exam Test: 120 exam questions (3 hours)

Agile practitioners and "knowledge project" Project Managers who plan seriously to take the PMI-ACP® certification within a well defined deadline. Initial assessment and checks about exam eligibility criteria established by the PMI® will be conducted, in order to verify the minimum required amount of experience in project management and agile methods and study degree.

The following contents are covered by the Exam Prep Course at the beginning of the Certification Path.

The PMI® Agile Project Management Framework:.

• Knowledge Projects.
• Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions.
• Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto.
• Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to the six domains of Agile Project Management recognized by PMI®.

Value-Driven Delivery:

• Focusing on Business Value: defining and prioritizing features in terms of business value.
• Leveraging rapid feedback cycles.
• Minimally Marketable Features (MMF) for release planning.
• Requirements progressive elaboration.
• Shared Definition of Done and requirements sharpening according to that.

Stakeholders Engagement.

• From stakeholder identification to stakeholder engagement.
• Aligning stakeholders understanding
• How to promote effective collaboration and participation.
• Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions.
• Using critical soft skills.
• Leading effectively.
• Enabling knowledge sharing.

Boosting Team Performance Practices.

• Generalizing specialists: forming cross-functional teams.
• Undestanding team performance.
• Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision-making.
• Adaptive leadership: stages of team formation development and situational leadership model.
• Building empowered teams.
• Buildings high-performance teams.
• Team practices.
• Coaching and mentoring.
• Colocated teams, "caves and commons", distributed virtual teams.

Adaptive Planning.

• Planning at multiple levels.
• Time boxing (beyond rolling wave planning).
• Progressive elaboration.
• Value-based analysis.
• Value-based decomposition and prioritization.
• Agile estimating: relative sizing (story points), planning poker and wideband Delphi.
• Iteration and release planning.
• Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame.
• Controlling costs through quantitative measures.

Problem Detection and Resolution.

• Identifying problems: cycle time, escaped defects.
• Resolving problems.
• Continuous integration.
• Risk-based spike.
• Frequent verification and validation.
• Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Problem solving: gather data, generate insights, decide what to do.

Continuous Improvement.

• Continuous improvement practices.
• Retrospectives.
• Knowledge sharing: information radiators.
• Process tailoring.
• Removing nonvalue-adding processes.
• Reducing Work In Progress (WIP).

Preparing for the PMI-ACP® exam as well as performing a project.

• Sprint #1: identifying your strengths and weaknesses, design a personalized study plan.
• Sprint #1: study optimizing time and applying proven tips to pass the exam.
• Sprint #1: do exercises and tests and measure your performance.
• Sprint #1: decide the test day and pass the exam!