PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Boot Camp

• Part 1: Getting Started
  • During this kick-off section of the class the group not only covers introductions and course objectives, but they are also taken through an overview of the different Agile methods that are tested on the exam. This section specifically covers:
    1. Introductions
    2. Objectives
    3. Working Agreements
    4. Agile Overview
       • Why Agile?
       • What is Agile?
       • Agile Manifesto & Principles
       • Agile Practices
       • The Agile Team
       • Agile Metrics
         
         
• Part 2: Tools and Techniques
  • During this section of the class, the group examines the PMI recognized Tools and Techniques of Agile Project Management. This material represents 50% of the material on the test. This section specifically covers:
    1. Agile analysis and design
    2. Agile estimation
    3. Communications
    4. Interpersonal skills
    5. Metrics
    6. Planning, monitoring, and adapting
    7. Process improvement
    8. Product quality
    9. Risk management
    10. Value-based prioritization
        
        
• Part 3: Knowledge and Skills
  • During this section of the class the group explores Agile Knowledge and Skills. This material represents 50% of the material on the test. This section specifically covers:
    1. Agile values and principles
    2. Agile frameworks and terminology
    3. Agile methods and approaches
    4. Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
    5. Stakeholder management
    6. Communication management
    7. Facilitation methods
    8. Knowledge sharing/written communication
    9. Leadership
    10. Building agile teams
    11. Team motivation
    12. Physical and virtual co-location
    13. Global, cultural, and team diversity
    14. Training, coaching, and mentoring
    15. Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)
    16. Self-assessment tools and techniques
    17. Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)
    18. Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
    19. Problem solving
    20. Prioritization
    21. Incremental delivery
    22. Agile discovery
    23. Agile sizing and estimation
    24. Value based analysis and decomposition
    25. Process analysis
    26. Continuous improvement
    27. Agile hybrid models
    28. Managing with agile KPIs
    29. Agile project chartering
    30. Agile contracting
    31. Agile project accounting principles
    32. Regulatory compliance
    33. PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

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