PMI-ACP® Exam Prep

Why getting certified?

Demonstrate to employers the level of professionalism in agile practices, tools and techniques
Increase professional versatility in agile techniques
Hold a certification that is more credible than existing entry-level, training or exam-only based offerings

What do you get

• 3-day classroom training
• Full exam simulation
• Practice questions during the course
• Application support and exam logistics
• Post-course and pre-exam coaching

Requirements

We strongly encourage you to constantly review the official webpage of the certification at www.pmi.org/certifications/agile-acp

Agenda

Introduction

· How to pass the exam
· Build your study plan
· Becoming Agile

The agile value proposition – Agile myths and reality – Agile vs Waterfall
Agile methodologies – Becoming value-driven

· Values and principles
· The Agile mindset
· What makes it a methodology
· How to use methodologies
· Deep dive into Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP, FDD, DSDM, Crystal

The framework
Pillars and artefacts
Roles and responsibilities
Incremental and iterative
Agile delivery teams

How to add value

· The Development Team
· The Product Owner/Customer
· The Scrum Master/Coach
· The sponsor
· Managing the stakeholders
· Servant leadership
· Active listening
· Emotional Intelligence
· High performance teams
· Conflict management

Project initiation

· Project charter and the vision
· Project metrics: ROI, NPV , IRR, etc.
· The vision statement
· „Design the box“
· Using Personas
· Product backlog
· Value stream mapping
· Requirements decomposition
· Progressive elaboration
· User stories
· Agile Estimations
· Understanding velocity
· Building a product roadmap Release planning
· Mapping and decomposing stories
· Story mapping
· Breaking down large stories
· Prioritisation techniques
· Risk management
· Using spikes

Sprint Zero

· Setting up the project
· High level designs
· Process diagrams, user flows, UI prototypes, wireframes

Sprint Planning

· The planning meeting
· Task management
· Storyboards and task boards
Inside the iteration
· Face-to-face communications
· Daily Stand-Ups
· Information radiators
· Project reporting: burn ups/downs, tracking deliveries and velocity, defects

Sprint Review

· Preparing for the review
· Running the review
· How to run a good review

Sprint Retrospective

· Continuous improvement
· Retrospective techniques
· Self-assessments
· Best practices

Test strategy

· Exam simulation
· Conclusions

Languages

This course in available in English, French, German

Duration

3 days (21 hours) in classroom
Also available as online or virtual delivery