Course Overview
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.
This 3 day session will prepare you for the PMI-ACP Exam and provide an ideally structure way to be Agile in your projects and/or implement Agile in your organization.
Audience Profile
This 3 day session targets 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-ACPSM Exam.
Individuals or groups looking to implement Agile project management practices in their environments , as well as Agile practitioners wishing to gain a credential reflecting their professional achievement.
If you use Agile practices in your projects, or your organization is adopting Agile approaches to project management, this 3 day session and the PMI-ACP certification may be right for you.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Have all the information required to apply for the PMI-ACP.
- Study effectively for the PMI-ACP exam by using the ideally structured course content used during this course.
- Access http://www.agileexams.com for the next 90 days for practice for the PMI-ACP.
- Rely on a wealth of information about Agile in order to apply this knowledge within their team or organization.
- Note: Completion of this course provides 21 PDU's.
Course Outline
To help you prepare for the PMI-ACP Exam and to provide overall structure for Agile as a body of knowledge, here are the specific objectives covered during this 3 day session:
Introduction
- What is Agile?
- Why Agile?
- Agile Manifesto
- Prescriptive vs. Adaptive
- Sequential vs. Overlapping
Agile methodologies - in depth overview from a coach with actual experience implementing these successfully.
- Scrum
- Extreme Programing (XP)
- Kanban
What you need to know about the PMI-ACP
- Who should apply
- Eligibility requirements
- Exam overview
- Tips for studying
- Tips during the exam
- Reference materials
- Agileexams.com (included in your course)
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
- Team motivation
- Time, budge, and cost estimation
- Value-based decomposition and prioritization
- Level 2 (12% of total exam questions)
- Agile frameworks and terminology
- Building high-performance teams
- Business case development
- Co-location (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
- Process analysis techniques
- 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
- Globalization, culture, and team diversity
- Innovation games
- Principles of systems thinking (e.g. complex adaptive, chaos)
- Regulatory compliance
- Variance and trend analysis
- Variations in Agile methods and approaches
- Vendor management
Teach To Learn - a great technique also used when facilitating "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
- According to William Glasser, we Learn:
- 10% of what we READ
- 20% of what we HEAR
- 30% of what we SEE
- 50% of what we SEE and HEAR
- 70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS
- 80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY
- 95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE
- Each section includes a Teach To Learn session for participants to truly retain the learning
- Many questions to be expected in the PMI-ACP exam are included within each sections
Instructor Bio
Dimitri Ponomareff is a highly result-driven and tactically creative
professional with the full spectrum of project management, from Agile to
Waterfall, and a wide range of application development experience. He has been
consistently recognized as a passionate leader and successful change agent,
with a great capacity to motivate and mobilize organizations on the path of
continuous improvements.
Dimitri has served as an elected board member for the Project Management
Institute (PMI) Phoenix Chapter in the role of VP of Communications, where he
was recognized by PMI Region 7 as leading the way for PMI chapters in regards
to improving communication and online experience for its members.
Complementing his years of experience in project management, Dimitri is also a
master facilitator and dedicated practitioner of "The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People". He is a very exciting presenter with overwhelming positive
feedback about his energy and ability to engage an audience.
In addition to being a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified
ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Dimitri has a
bachelor degree in Management Information Systems (BBA-MIS) at Université du
Québec à Montréal. As an Agile coach, he has successfully implemented Agile
(Scrum, XP and Kanban) within many organization including: Choice Hotels
International, JDA Software Group, Apriva Mobile, Arizona Early Childhood
Development & Health Board.
Dimitri Ponomareff LinkedIn
Prerequisites