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Introduction
If you work on agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices, the PMI-ACP® is a good choice for you. Compared with other agile certifications based solely on training and exams, the PMI-ACP® is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) 21.
Audience profile
- CIO / CTO / IT Executives
- Project / Program Management Officers
- Development / Operation Managers
- Project Managers / Team Leads
- Developers/ Programmers
- Designers / Testers
- Project Controllers / Planners
- Product Owners / Stakeholders
- Scrum Masters / Scrum Team Members
- Agile Professionals
Pre-requisites
- In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:
- Using different agile approaches
- Good collaboration skills
To register to take the exam you need to have either:
- Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)
- 2000 hours (12 months) working on project teams. This experience must have been earned in the last 5 years. (Current PMP® or PgMP® holder are exempt from this requirement)
- 1,500 hours (8 months) working on project teams using agile methodologies. This experience must have been earned in the last 3 years. These hours are in addition to the 2,000 hours required in general project experience
- 21 hours of education in agile practices.
Course objectives
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of:
Agile manifesto, principles, and practices across Agile methodologies, such as:
- Scrum
- eXtreme Programming (XP)
- Lean
- Kanban
- Dynamic Systems Development Methods (DSDM)
- Test-Driven / Feature-Driven Developments
- Agile project lifecycle and key Agile management skills and social, economic and environmental influences.
Applying Agile management knowledge and skills, such as communications, coaching and mentoring, leadership, team motivation, problem-solving strategies, and more.
Using Agile tools & techniques, such as value-based prioritization, risk management, soft skills negotiation, product quality, Agile estimation, analysis, and design.
How to deliver a high-quality product in a shorter period of time
Empowerment of team; self-organization and self-management
Professional responsibilities concerning Agile Project management
Course content
Session 1: Introduction | |
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Session 2: An Introduction to Agile | |
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Session 3: Life Cycle Selection | |
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Session 4: Creating an Agile Environment |
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Session 5: Delivering in an Agile Environment | |
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Measurements in Agile |
Session 6: Organizational Considerations | |
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Session 7: Agile Approaches and Methods | |
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Session 8: Domain and Tasks |
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Session 9: Agile Tools and Techniques | |
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Session 10: Agile Knowledge and Skills | |
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Session 11: PMI-ACP Exam Preparation | |
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Associated certifications and exam
This course prepares students to write the Project Management Institute, Inc. Exam EP- PMI-ACP PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) ® Exam.
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.
Through our affiliation as an Premium Authorized Training Partner (ATP) Torque IT stands out as a Project Management Institute (PMI®),-approved training provider—a quality customers want.
We use turn-key PMI licensed course content, including participant guides, and online learning assets like quizzes, knowledge checks and videos to deliver the PMP® Exam Prep course This ensures a consistent, high quality learning experience and provides the PMI-approved content customers asked for, and the comprehensive knowledge needed to prepare for the exam.
Our instructors completed a rigorous ATP Train the Trainer program. Completion of this training provides Torque IT for PMP Exam Prep endorsement from PMI and provides our instructors with a badge that shows they are PMI-approved instructors.
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
The Project Management Professional (PMP)® is the world’s leading project management certification. Now including predictive, agile and hybrid approaches, the PMP® proves project leadership experience and expertise in any way of working. It supercharges careers for project leaders across industries and helps organizations find the people they need to work smarter and perform better.
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®
Regardless of your career stage, the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is an asset that will distinguish you in the job market and enhance your credibility and effectiveness working on — or with — project teams.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
If you’re experienced using agile approaches, have good collaboration skills, eagerly embrace complexity and thrive on rapid response times, then your talents are in demand. The PMI-ACP formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. Show your peers, employers, and stakeholders that your agile knowledge runs deep. The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) Therefore, it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
Torque IT’s training courses ensure that attendees gain a solid understanding of Project Management at all levels. The associated certifications serve to demonstrate that successful candidates possess the necessary Project Management skills that are relevant, and in demand in the industry today.