Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP Exam Preparation)
Offerings in 2012
Regular Program (3-days, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM)
Location Dates
Islamabad July 16 to 18

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Highlights
  • Internationally Accredited Training Course
  • Based on official Examination Content Outline for ACP issued by PMI in July 2011
  • Students will receive 24 PDUs from PMI
  • We maintain excellent first attempt pass ratio
  • Approved Trainer to deliver PMP and ACP trainings


    Introduction
    While the importance of projects is growing in general, agile is emerging as a hot, popular and effective methodology of managing projects. In order to acknowledge the importance of agile methodology, Project Management Institute (PMI) has launched a new prestigious certification called as Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®).

    This course is specifically designed to help experienced, knowledgeable project managers and team leaders to master the art of agile project management through understanding Agile Tools and Techniques and Agile Knowledge and Skills. The course is very much focused on preparing the training participants to pass the ACP® certification exam.


    Learning Objectives
    Candidates should expect to gain competencies in the following areas after successful completion of the training course:
    • Principles, concept and techniques of project management in general and agile project management in particular
    • How to apply these concepts in real life for effective results
    • Knowledge and skills which are required for the effective use of agile methodology
    • Various internal and external factors, and their influence on the success or failure of an agile project
    • How to overcome with the difficulties that agile project managers face due to complex nature of project.

    Contents

    Tools and Techniques
    • Communications
      • information radiator
      • team space
      • agile tooling
      • osmotic communications for co-located and / or distributed teams
      • daily stand-ups

    • Planning, monitoring, and adapting
      • Retrospectives
      • Task/Kanban boards
      • Timeboxing
      • iteration and release planning
      • WIP limits
      • burn down/up charts
      • cumulative flow diagrams
      • process tailoring

    • Agile estimation
      • relative sizing/story points
      • wide band Delphi/planning poker
      • affinity estimating
      • ideal time

    • Agile analysis and design
      • product roadmap
      • user stories/backlog
      • story maps
      • progressive elaboration
      • wireframes
      • chartering
      • personas
      • agile modeling

    • Product quality
      • frequent verification and validation
      • test-driven development/test first development
      • acceptance test-driven development
      • definition of done
      • continuous integration

    • Soft skills negotiation
      • emotional intelligence
      • collaboration
      • adaptive leadership
      • negotiation
      • conflict resolution
      • servant leadership

    • Value-based prioritization
      • return on investment (ROl)
      • net present value (NPV)
      • internal rate of return (IRR)
      • compliance
      • customer-valued prioritization
      • minimally marketable feature (MMF)
      • relative prioritization/ranking

    • Risk management
      • risk-adjusted backlog
      • risk burn down graphs
      • risk-based spike

    • Metrics
      • Velocity
      • cycle time
      • earned value management (EVM) for agile projects
      • escaped defects

    • Value stream analysis
      • value stream mapping

    • Practice Test

    Knowledge and Skills
    • Level 1
      • Active Listening
      • Agile Manifesto values 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, budget, and cost estimation
      • Value-based decomposition and prioritization

    • Level 2
      • 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
      • Agile contracting methods
      • Agile project accounting principles
      • Applying new Agile practices
      • Compliance (organization)
      • Control limits for Agile projects
      • Failure modes an 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

    • Practice Test
    • Preparation for the ACP Examination
      • Logistics and Hints

    • ACP Practice Examination

    Recommended Participants
    This course is designed for project managers and team leaders who are preparing for the ACP® certification exam.

    Other project personnel and functional managers who work with projects or want to learn about Agile methodology will benefit from a better understanding of how their responsibilities fit into this agile project management methodology.

    Organizations that support ACP® certification will benefit from demonstrated support of and consistent application of agile project management principles.


    Prerequisites
    Some experience of managing or directing projects or project tasks is preferred but not necessary. An experience with Agile methodology will be helpful but is not expected from the training participants.


    Number of Participants
    Minimum Number of participants: 06
    Maximum Number of participants: 20


    Practice Exam
    A practice exam is part of the course. The practice exam aims to help participants in passing the ACP certification exam.


    PDUs Assigned
    Business Beam (Pvt.) Limited is a Global Registered Education Provider (REP) of the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.

    This course qualifies for Twenty Four (24) Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the PMI, USA.


    Materials Provided
  • Course reference manual containing printed copies of presentation, notes, exercises and quizzes
  • Practice questions and their answers
  • Course attendance certificate


    Reference Material
    This course is based on the official PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline issued by PMI in July 2011. The details of various topics have taken from different sources.


    Course Fee
    For Pakistan : Rs. 29,000 per participant

    This course may also be offered by arrangement at customer sites. E-mail training@businessbeam.com or call +92-21-34559076, 34316494 for details.


    Questions about this Course?
    Please see our Frequently Asked Questions section for answers to some of the more common inquiries about Business Beam’s Executive Training Programme.


    Note: Mentioned details are tentative. Business Beam Limited reserves the right to change the schedule, cost and other details without any prior notice.
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