The PMI-ACP® is a well-respected credential in the Agile community and demonstrates your competence in carrying out project management using Agile practices. The certification mandatorily requires a combination of agile training, experience working on agile projects and passing a rigorous examination on agile principles, practices, tools, and techniques.
In today’s business environment, companies are under increasing pressure to adapt to rapidly evolving market conditions. To stay competitive, they are increasingly turning to Agile project management methods. The Agile framework, with its short iterative cycles and continuous evaluation, helps to create end products that are better suited to changing requirements, and keep customers happy with high value creation at every point. As project priorities, budgets and goals change, Agile methods help the team to stay on top of these changes and adapt their schedules and practices accordingly.
The much sought-after PMI-ACP® (Agile Certified Practitioner) credential from PMI® , USA, demonstrates high levels of expertise in Agile principles and practices. With this training, you will be able to increase your professional versatility in project management tools and techniques and learn best practices across different agile methodologies.
Our workshop in PMI-ACP® Certification Training will help you to implement Agile practices appropriate for your teams, and gain the skills and knowledge required to sit for the PMI-ACP® certification exam.
Description
There are many compelling reasons teams are moving toward Agile, including: –
- The ability to manage rapidly changing priorities
- Increased productivity of the team
- Enhanced quality of the product
- Accelerated time-to-market
- Reduced risk to project efforts
- The reduced overall cost of projects
- Improved alignment between the business and IT
- Early return on investment
- Improved project visibility
- Satisfied customers and stakeholders
- Join the many teams that have realized these and many other benefits through adopting Agile project management methods.
Why we need training for PMI-ACP Exam Prep?
- Prepare to pass the PMI-ACP exam while completing the required 21 contact hours/PDUs
- Navigate the tools, techniques, knowledge, and skills exam areas
- Align your Agile experience with PMI’s six domains of practice
- Review relevant topics in the PMI suggested reference materials
- Create a plan for self-study between the course and your exam date
- Gartner analysts predicted in 2010 that by 2012 Agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects. It is no surprise that the Project Management Institute (PMI) announced that they are offering a new Certification for Agile Project Managers. The certification validates a PM’s experience and mastery of the agile principals and processes.
- An Agile certified practitioner has the knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall practices and can lead teams on Agile projects. By holding this Agile Practitioner Certification, which is more credible than other agile certifications out there, a practitioner verifies their agile expertise to companies looking to adopt the agile methodology.
- Our Agile Project Management experts want to help eligible Project Managers succeed in this certification, by creating an interactive course that prepares Project Managers for the Agile Certified Practitioner exam.
Course Goals and Objectives
- Topics covered as per PMI-ACP Handbook
- Chapter-wise quizzes for extensive practice on concepts
- Convenient learning access for agile aspirants
- A thorough understanding of agile theory and practice
- Sufficient practice tests to give you confidence to pass the PMI-ACP exam
Target Audience
- Managers, Designers, Developers
- Leads, Team Members, Technical Architects, Organizations anyone interested in Agile certification.
- PMO leaders, project managers and project aspirants looking to gain expertise in agile practices should opt for PMI-ACP training course.
Pre-Requisites
- Basic understanding of Agile and any methodology
- Anyone looking forward to attempt PMI-ACP exam can avail this training course
- One needs to fulfill the exam eligibility criteria as defined by the PMI. Refer to PMI-ACP Handbook to know about the eligibility criteria.
Advantages of PMI-ACP Exam Prep
- Learn precisely what you will need to know to pass the new Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam.
- Understand Agile principles and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
- Acquire valuable insights into how you can “empower and inspire” your team
- Gain insight on how to establish transparency in communication inside the team as well as with customers
- Learn how to develop teams into high-performance teams; they will deliver amazing results for customers
- Discover techniques to more actively manage a project’s scope to help better ensure the delivery of the best product possible, not just the product that was planned
- Experience the freedom of embracing change and redefining how change affects projects, for the better
- Evaluate how new approaches to manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality are easily improved using effective Agile controls
- Uncover the mystery of teams that are more accurate by being less precise
- Combine best methods from multiple Agile methodologies to apply to your team
- Learn to better know and collaborate with customers for better results
- Build trust with your team and your customer through consistent cadence of “common sense” best practices
- Learn the most powerful metrics to employ to ensure that teams continuously improve their development and delivery
- Avoid the pitfalls many teams fall into when adopting Agile practices
- Gain powerful insights, techniques, and skills to successfully coach a new or existing agile team
- Successfully make the transition from a ‘Command and Control’ leadership style to the more powerful ‘Servant Leadership’ method of management
- React and respond to change quickly and effectively to seize competitive advantage for your customer
- Arm yourself with the latest industry knowledge on how to manage dynamic projects in the most unforgiving environments
- Learn why studies have shown Agile teams are significantly happier with their work, and ensure this benefit for your own team
Who is this course for?
Agile project management is trending in all industries. PMI-ACP (agile certified practitioner) certification is an essential professional requirement across industries for agile project management roles. PMI-ACP certification is most suited for:
- Project managers
- Associate/Asst. Manager – Projects
- Team leads/Managers
- Project Executives/Engineers
- Software Developers
- Scrum Masters
- Product Owners
- Product Managers
- Any professional aspiring to be an Agile Project Management Professional
Requirements
1-You must have 2,000 hours of general project experience working on teams. This makes around 1.5-2 years of experience. If you hold a PMP or PgMP certification, you will satisfy this requirement automatically. However, satisfying this requirement alone is not sufficient to sit for PMI ACP exam.
2-You must have 1,500 hours of working experience on agile project teams or with agile methodologies. This requirement is in addition to the first one.
3-You must have attended 21 contact hours of training in agile.
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