Course Category: Agile MethodsProject Management
Course Duration: 3 Days
Hours: 21 PMI PDUs
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Course Summary
The PMI-ACP certification highlights your agile expertise with the industry’s only agnostic, experienced-based, ISO-accredited exam. It validates your ability to drive excellence across methodologies, including Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and more—with a truly agile and a team-centric approach, this certification is sure to make you stand out among peers, employers, and stakeholders alike.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the requirements and process for PMI ACP® certification
- Learn the 4 Domain areas that constitute the PMI ACP Examination Content Outline
- Understand the Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Acquire in-depth knowledge of scrum – the most commonly used Agile framework
- Understand the basics of other major agile frameworks – XP, Lean and KANBAN
- Learn popular Agile techniques for estimation, planning, requirements definition, etc.
- Understand project management in the Agile context
Who should attend?
Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers/QA, PMO Leaders, and other agile practitioners interested in acquiring the PMI-ACP certification.
Pre-Requisites
Course Participation Pre-Requisites:
There are no prerequisites to attend the training.
Certification Exam Pre-Requisites:
Educational Background: Secondary diploma (high school diploma, GED, or global equivalent)
Learning: 28 hours of formal training in agile practices, frameworks, methodologies
Professional Agile Experience:
- 2 years of agile experience in past 5 years or
- 1 year agile experience and active 3rd party agile certification (current and earned more than 1 year ago) or
- Active PMP® Certification
Training and Exam Duration
Training: 4 days.
The course material shall be issued on the first day of the course during registration.
Exam: 3 hours duration
The exam may be scheduled at a Pearsonvue testing centre close to your location or from from home or your office – whatever works better for the candidate. (https://home.pearsonvue.com/pmi).
Exam Pattern
The PMI-ACP exam consists of 120 multiple choice questions. The exam is closed-book, i.e. no materials are allowed to be used.
Course Outline
Domain 1: Mindset
- Experiment Early
- Embrace Agile Mindset
- Promote Collaborative Team Environment
- Build Transparency
- Foster Psychological Safety
- Shorten Feedback Loops
- Embrace Change
Domain 2: Leadership
- About PMI
- PMI-ACP Certification Process
- PMI-ACP Course Content
Domain 3: Product
- Refine product backlog
- Manage increments
- Visualize work
- Manage value delivery
Domain 4: Delivery
- Seek early feedback
- Manage agile metrics
- Manage impediments and risk
- Recognize and eliminate waste
- Perform continuous improvements
- Actively engage customers
- Optimize flow
Course Category: Agile MethodsProject Management
Course Duration: 3 Days
Hours: 21 PMI PDUs
