PMI-ACP Certification Training in USA, Columbus, OH
Agile is a philosophy that uses organizational models based on people, collaboration and shared values. Agile uses rolling wave planning; iterative and incremental delivery; rapid and flexible response to change; and open communication between teams, stakeholders, and customers. There are many approaches to agile that adhere to these tenets, such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean, Kanban and Test-driven Development (TDD). Although agile principles have their roots in the software and IT industries, agile adoption is growing and expanding in a wide range of industries, including health care, marketing and manufacturing.
What will you learn?
Agile Certified Practitioner Certification PMI-ACP is a fastest catching up Agile Certification advocated by PMI. This is said to be a one-in-all Agile Certification that encompasses the overall umbrella of Agile practices knowledge and understanding for all the roles in Project Management.
Agile principles and practices include:
- Early, measurable return on investment through defined, iterative delivery of product increments
- High visibility of project progress allows early identification and resolution or monitoring of problems
- Continuous involvement of the customer throughout the product development cycle
- Empowerment of the business owner to make decisions needed to meet goals
- Adaptation to changing business needs, giving more influence over requirement changes
- Reduced product and process waste
Pre-requisites
- Secondary school diploma
- 2 years of agile experience within the last 5 years (a current PMP® satisfies this requirement but is not mandatory)
- 28 hours of training in agile practices, frameworks, and methodologies
- 1,500 hours working on Agile project teams or with Agile methodologies. Please note that this requirement is in addition to the 2,000 hours of general project experience.
Who can do PMI-ACP Certification Training?
- Agile Project Managers
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Scrum Team Members
- Project Sponsors
- Project Planners
- Quality Testing and Quality Assurance members
- Agile Developers / Programmers
- Designers
- Testers
- Project Controller
Exam Format
The PMI-ACP examination follows a 120 question multiple choice format and has a duration of 3 hours. Out of the 120 questions, 20 are unscored and used to test questions before including them in future exams.
Lesson 01 - Course Introduction
- Course Introduction
- Eligibility Requirements
- Certification Fees and Renewal
- About Our Course
Lesson 02 - Agile Principles and Mindset - Part 1
- Agile Principles and Mindset - Part One
- Introduction to Agile
- Agile Engineering Practices
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile Manifesto Explained
- Principles of Agile Manifesto
- Applying the Principles of Agile Manifesto
- Agile Core Principles and Practices
- Benefits of Agile
- Project Life Cycle Characteristics
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 03 - Agile Principles and Mindset - Part 2
- Agile Principles and Mindset - Part Two
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Mindset
- Where to Apply Agile
- Meaning of Scrum
- Features of Scrum
- Three Pillars of Scrum
- Scrum Roles
- Key Terms of Scrum
- Scrum Meetings
- Scrum: An Empirical Process
- Extreme Programming
- Extreme Programming Practices - Part A
- Extreme Programming Practices - Part B
- Roles in Extreme Programming
- Process Diagram of XP
- Crystal Method
- Properties of Crystal Method
- Key Categories of Crystal Method - Part A
- Key Categories of Crystal Method - Part B
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
- Basic Principles of Atern
- Planning Philosophy in DSDM
- DSDM Techniques
- DSDM Phases
- Feature-Driven Development
- Agile Project Management
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 04 - Value-Driven Delivery - Part 1
- Value-Driven Delivery - Part One
- Quantifying Customer Value
- Time Value of Money
- Time Value of Money: Example
- The Financial Feasibility of Projects
- Return on Investment ROI
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Net Present Value (NPV): Example
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Payback Period
- Payback Period: Example
- Prioritization of Functional Requirements
- MoSCoW
- Kano Model
- Relative Weighting
- Prioritization of Non-Functional Requirements
- Risk Management in Agile
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 05 - Value-Driven Delivery - Part 2
- Value-Driven Delivery - Part Two
- Minimal Viable Product
- Project Planning Using MVP
- Agile Compliance
- Key Drivers of Agile Compliance
- Incremental Delivery
- Review and Feedback
- Earned Value Management
- Earned Value Metrics
- Earned Value Metrics: Example
- Agile Contracts: Components
- Agile Contracting Methods
- Fixed-Price or Fixed-Scope Contract
- Time and Materials (T and M) Contract
- T and M with Fixed Scope and Cost Ceiling
- T and M with Variable Scope and Cost Ceiling
- Bonus or Penalty Clauses
- Rolling Agile Contracts
- Terms Used in Agile Contracts
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 06 - Stakeholder Engagement - Part 1
- Stakeholder Engagement - Part One
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Charter
- Understanding Stakeholder Needs
- Agile Wireframes
- User Story
- Story Card Information
- Agile Personas
- Theme and Epic
- Agile Story Maps
- Community and Stakeholder Values
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 07 - Stakeholder Engagement - Part 2
- Stakeholder Engagement - Part Two
- Community Management
- Communication and Knowledge Sharing
- Social Media Communication
- Information Radiators
- Burnup and Burndown Charts
- Kanban or Task Board
- Impediment Logs
- Characteristics of Information Radiators
- Agile Modeling
- Active Listening
- Key Elements of Active Listening
- Globalization Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity
- Cultural Diversity Issues: Recommendations
- Agile Facilitation Methods
- Agile Negotiation and Conflict Management
- Five Levels of Conflict
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 08 - Team Performance - Part 1
- Team Performance - Part One
- Features and Composition of Agile Teams
- Stages of Agile Team Formation
- High Performance Teams
- Generalizing Specialist
- Team Responsibility
- Self-Organization
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 09 - Team Performance - Part 2
- Team Performance - Part Two
- Agile Leadership
- Best Practices of Agile Leadership
- Management vs Leadership
- Servant Leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Emotional Intelligence
- Team Motivation
- Maslow’s Theory
- Frederick Herzberg's Theory
- McClelland's Theory
- Boehm's Theory
- Team Space
- Co-Located Teams
- Distributed Teams
- Co-Located vs. Distributed Teams
- Osmotic Communication
- Team Collaboration and Coordination
- Collaboration Technology
- Communication Gap-Example One
- Communication Gap-Example Two
- Brainstorming Sessions
- Team Velocity
- Velocity-Example One
- Velocity-Example Two
- Sample Velocity Chart
- Velocity-Example Two
- Agile Tools
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 10 - Adaptive Planning - Part 1
- Adaptive Planning - Part One
- Planning Philosophy
- Aligning Agile Projects
- Rolling Wave Planning
- Timeboxing
- Best Practices of Timeboxing
- Advantages of Timeboxing
- Agile Estimation
- Story Points
- Assigning Story Points
- Story Points Estimation
- Story Points Estimation Scale: Example
- Value Points
- Ideal Days
- Story Points vs. Ideal Days
- Wideband Delphi Technique
- Planning Poker
- Planning Poker: Example
- Affinity Estimation
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 11 - Adaptive Planning - Part 2
- Adaptive Planning - Part Two
- Project Size Estimation
- Release Plan
- Release Plan: Example
- Iteration Plan
- Types of Iteration Planning
- Iteration Lifecycle: Example
- Release Plan vs. Iteration Plan
- Agile Product Roadmap
- Backlog Refinement - Part Two
- Value-Based Analysis and Decomposition
- Agile Cone of Uncertainty
- Velocity Variations
- Sprint Reviews
- Sprint Retrospectives
- Mid-Course Corrections
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 12 - Problem Detection and Resolution - Part 1
- Problem Detection and Resolution - Part One
- Agile Problem Detection
- Problem Detection Techniques
- Fishbone Diagram
- Five Whys Technique
- Control Charts
- Lead Time and Cycle Time
- Kanban
- Kanban Process
- Example of Kanban Board
- Work In Progress
- Managing Constraints
- Little’s Law
- Escaped Defects
- Agile Problem Solving
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 13 - Problem Detection and Resolution - Part 2
- Adaptive Planning
- Metrics and Measures
- Benefits of Metrics
- Examples of Metrics
- Baseline Metrics
- Variance and Trend Analysis
- Risk Management Life Cycle
- Step One-Risk Identification
- Step Two-Risk Assessment
- Step Three-Risk Response Strategies
- Step Four-Risk Review
- Risk Log
- Risk Burndown Chart
- Risk Profile Graph
- Spike
- Agile Failure Modes
- Agile Coach Failure Modes
- Troubleshooting Guidelines
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 14 - Continuous Improvement - Part 1
- Continuous Improvement - Part One
- Kaizen
- Kaizen in Agile
- Lean
- Defining Waste Manufacturing and Software Development
- A Five Step Process to Becoming Lean
- Value Stream Mapping
- Agile Retrospectives
- Cargo Smells
- Conducting a Retrospective
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Process Analysis Techniques
- Agile Process Tailoring
- Project Factors That Influence Tailoring
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Lesson 15 - Continuous Improvement - Part 2
- Continuous Improvement - Part Two
- Quality in Agile
- Best Practices for Quality in Agile
- Best Practice One: Verification and Validation
- Best Practice Two: Exploratory Testing
- Best Practice Three: Usability Testing
- Best Practice Four: Test-Driven Development
- Test-Driven Development Advantages
- Acceptance Test-Driven Development Cycle (ATDD)
- Best Practice Five: Continuous Integration
- Best Practice Six: Definition of Done
- Testing Pyramid and Quadrant
- Checklist for Story Completion
- Agile Flowchart
- Agile Spaghetti Diagram
- Organizational Self Assessment
- Key Takeaways
- Knowledge Check
Do I get any exemption in the Minimum Eligibility Criteria, if I already have PMP or PgMP Certification?
PMP and/or PgMP certification holders will be accepted as fulfilling the general project experience requirements. Agile Project experience and Training in Agile as mentioned in the Minimum Eligibility Criteria(Please refer the previous question) has to be acquired .
How do I schedule PMI-ACP certification exam appointment?
On submission of your application and once you are eligible, PMI will e-mail you examination scheduling instructions with your eligibility code which you will need when scheduling your exam. You can schedule your exam appointment online or by telephone.
What happens if my eligibility expires and I have not taken the exam?
Your application is valid for a period of one (1) year from the date of approval. If you allow your eligibility to lapse, you must re-apply.
Is there any Minimum Criteria for the PMI-ACP Examination?
To apply for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Certification PMI, you should have:
- A secondary degree or higher
- 2000 hours of general project management experience in the last five years
- At least 1,500 hours of experience working on agile project teams during the last three years
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