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PMI® PMI-ACP® Exam Prep Course (3 days)

In this course you will be trained to become an Agile Certified Practitioner. Upon course completion you will take home:

  • The ability to align your Agile experience with the six domains of Agile practice recognized by PMI®..
  • 21 contact hours required by PMI® to be eligible for the PMI-ACP® certification.
  • All knowledge and skills to assist you in preparing PMI-ACP® exam.
  • A copy of the two reference books: "Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products" by Jim Highsmith and "Agile Project Management with Scrum (Developer Best Practices)" by Ken Schwaber.
  • A database with 200 exam questions to do practice after course.

Duration: 3 days

  • 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)

Agile practitioners and "knowledge project" Project Managers who plan to take the PMI-ACP® exam, as well as PMP® credential holders with Agile project management experience who wish to enhance their accreditation. Participants should be aware of exam eligibility criteria established by the PMI®.

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 personalised 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!

Price: € 855 € 684 (Excl. VAT)

"Company Launch Promo": get 20 percent off on all courses to be started within June 30th, 2015 (save € 171)

Our enrollment process:

  1. Verify available dates on Public Classes Calendar section.
  2. Compile registration form to reserve your place.
  3. Wait for the course to became marked with a "Guaranteed to Run" icon (at least 20 days before course start date and/or upon reaching the minimum number of participants).
  4. Pay within 7 seven days from course start date to confirm your participation.

This course provides you:

  • A comprehensive overview of PMI®'s Agile Project Management framework.
  • 21 contact hours required by PMI® as one of eligibility criteria for the PMI-ACP® certification.
  • All knowledge and skills to assist you in preparing PMI-ACP® exam.

The course is valuable for:

  • Experienced or aspiring Agile Certified Practitioners who are planning to take the PMI- ACP® exam in the near future.
  • ICT Team Leaders and Project Managers with some experience in applying Agile methods (es. Scrum).
A general project management background and additional Agile development experience is assumed prior to taking this course.

The course is led by senior certified professionals and is not made simply by lectures. Through the interaction and exercises based on exam questions you'll learn essential terminology, tools and techniques required to pass the PMI-ACP® exam.

Approximately 40-45% of this course is spent in workshops and simulated exams.

PMI® suggests a list of books to cover all the arguments required by the certification exam.

  • "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great" , Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber.
  • "Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility", Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott
  • "Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game" – 2nd Edition, Alistair Cockburn
  • "Agile Project Management with Scrum", Ken Schwabe
  • "The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility", Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick
  • "User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development", Mike Cohn
  • "Coaching Agile Teams",Lyssa Adkins
  • "The Art of Agile Development", James Shore
  • "Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products" – 2nd Edition, Jim Highsmith
  • "Agile Estimating and Planning", Mike Cohn
  • "Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world", Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky

Reading all of these books takes some time and the books also cover a lot more material than you need to know for the exam. We selected two of these that will be given to you as reference books, together with comprehensive course material.

According to PMI® discipline, the PMI-ACP® eligibility criteria maintains that the candidate hold a minimum of a secondary degree (high school or equivalent) and have earned at least 2,000 hours of general project experienced within the last 5 years. Candidates must also have earned at least 1,500 hours of Agile project experience within the last 3 years. As well as, have at least 21 contact hours of training, like those provided by this course, in Agile practices.

The exam consists of 120 multiple-choice questions, 100 are scorable questions and 20 questions, placed randomly, are "not scored" pretest items, which are used by PMI® to test the validity of future examination questions.

The exam is normally "computer based" with 3 hours to complete.

Once you pass the PMI-ACP® exam, will need to earn 30 PDUs per 3-year cycle. To learn more about the program, what are PDUs, how to earn and claim them, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to renew your certification, visit the Project Management Institute Website (www.pmi.org).

It depends. That is entirely up to you. This course is designed to meet the needs of a broad spectrum of PMI-ACP® certification candidates, with major or minor project management background. Upon completion of this course:

  • You will have undergone a comprehensive overview of Agile practices.
  • You will have taken a series of in-depth practice exams.
  • You will receive a PM.fam course attendance certificate to proof your 21 contact hours.
  • You will receive a personalized assessment report, prepared by your instructor, to assist you in discovering you areas of strength and weakness, all of which will help you to determine your level of exam readiness.

For those who have the PMI-ACP® certification as a true target, please take a look at our PMI-ACP® Certification Path with a step-by-step tutoring and a personalised study plan.

All public classes are at our Comanagement Center in Rome.

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