PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Excluding exam)

Course objectives

After completing this course, students will understand:

• The agile mindset and principles and the ability to apply them in practice.
• The need to create an environment that fosters innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• The need to promote collaboration and teamwork, establish a shared vision and working agreements, and develop high-performing teams.
• The need to use retrospective findings to improve the team and breakdown silos.
• The need to evaluate the team’s understanding of agile and tailor the approach accordingly, as well as identify the appropriate inter-team coordination approach.
• The need to have necessary skills and knowledge to effectively lead within an agile team.
• Agile principles and methodologies.
• The need to create a collaborative team environment that fosters innovation, learning, and growth.
• The need to apply principles of systems thinking to classify scenarios and identify the importance or risks of each classification.
• The need to interpret the output of agile suitability tools and integrate agile models based on needs.
• Agile methodologies, including (but not limited to): Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, and how to apply them to project management and product development.
• Product development, building product roadmaps, creating user stories, and managing product backlogs.
• The need to work closely with development teams to understand technical requirements and constraints.
• Communication skills and how to effectively communicate with stakeholders, including customers, development teams, and executives.
• The need to lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
• The necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage and deliver projects and products using agile approaches.
• Agile project management tools and techniques such as user stories, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Agile development practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and test-driven development.
• The need to adapt to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• The need to use agile metrics to measure project progress and success.
• The need to seek early feedback from internal and external customers to ensure alignment with their needs.
• The need to manage risks proactively to minimize impact on project and/or product delivery.
• The need to eliminate waste by focusing on delivering value to the customer. Performing continuous improvement to enhance project delivery and team performance.
• The need to engage customers throughout the project to ensure their needs are met.
• The need to optimizing flow by focusing on delivering value quickly and efficiently.
• The need to have a strong commitment to continuous learning and improvement and a passion for delivering high-quality products and services to customers.

Course content

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.

PMI-ACP^®, PMP^®, PgMP^® and PMBOK^® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.