Course Overview:
This course is developed for those individuals seeking to pass the Project Management Institute’s PMI-ACP Exam. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® is one of the newest certifications offered by PMI and is expected to become the industry standard certification for agile over the next few years. The PMI-ACP® certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that students are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management, and delivery.
While preparing you for the exam, you will explore various approaches to agility including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming (XP), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered the practices and techniques that Agile practitioners use to improve team performance, resolve problems and engage in continuous process improvements and be equipped with job-ready skills.
This course provides students with 21 contact hours in agile practices to help attain the Project Management Institute (PMI)® credential. PMI® and PMI-ACP® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Attendees to PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Prep Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 4 Days
Course Objectives:
- Agile Principles and Mindset
- Value-driven delivery
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team performance
- Adaptive planning
- Problem detection and Resolution
- Continuous Improvement
Prerequisites:
- Secondary degree
- 21 contact hours of training in agile practices
- 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP
- 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years
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Course Overview:
This course identifies how business analysts can elicit Agile requirements by writing user stories from use cases and personas of customer profiles. This leads to the processes of confirming the validity and usability for quality of the product development. An Agile Business Analyst has become a new recognized role within the other Agile Framework roles.
Attendees to PM-242:Defining Agile Requirements with User Stories will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 2 Days
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework
- Understand the scope of the Product Owner role in detail
- Understand the scope of the Agile Business Analysis role in coordination with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team
- Understand the scope of the Scrum Master role at a high level
- Understand the scope of the Scrum Development Team roles
- Document the interactions between the user of a system and the system itself
- Dive into understanding the Agile principles for requirements using user stories in a card, conversation, and confirmation format
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and business analysts or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.
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Course Overview:
CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is for both IT and non-technical professionals who require the essential business acumen needed to make informed cloud service decisions. Cloud Essentials is a vendor-neutral credential designed to validate the candidate has an understanding of basic terms and definitions of cloud computing along with the different processes involved in the successful adoption of cloud computing and its implications for organizations’ use.
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Objectives:
- Domain 1 : Cloud Concepts
- Understand cloud principles
- Identify cloud networking concepts & storage techniques
- Understand cloud design aspects
- Domain 2: Business Principles of Cloud Environments
- Identify and employ appropriate cloud assessments like feasibility studies, benchmarking, or gap analysis
- Highlight key business aspects of cloud vendor relation adoption, and comprehend cloud migration approaches
- Domain 3: Management and Technical Operations
- Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management or optimization
- Understand the role of DevOps in cloud environments, like API integration or provisioning
- Domain 4: Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security for the Cloud
- Understand risk management and response concepts related to cloud services and identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud, such as regulatory concerns or international standards.
Course Prerequisites:
- CompTIA recommends that a candidate have at least 6 months of experience in an IT environment, with direct involvement in IT-related tasks responsibilities and/or decision making.
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Course Overview:
TechNow’s Course provides existing .NET developers with practical information and labs that enables them to build solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 platform.
Attendees to MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to SharePoint 2010/2013 Development Platform
- Using SharePoint 2010/2013 Developer Tools
- Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Web Parts
- Working with SharePoint Objects on the Server
- Creating Event Receivers and Application Settings
- Developing Solutions by Using Business Connectivity Services
- Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Workflows
- Working with Client-based APIs for SharePoint 2010/2013
- Developing Interactive User Interfaces
- Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint
- Developing Sandboxed Solutions
- Working with SharePoint Server Profiles and Taxonomy APIs
- Developing Content Management Solutions
Prerequisites:
- An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development
- Approximately 12 months experience with ASP .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 (or later)
- Approximately 1 month development experience with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and VS2010/2013 (includes beta releases) creating code that interacts with the SharePoint Sever-side APIs
- Experience performing end user tasks with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and an understanding of the purpose and use of the following:
- Lists
- Documents and Libraries
- Personalizing an SP Page/Site
- Using MySites
- Using SharePoint Designer
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User: kelleyd10
Instructor comments: Clay was / is an outstanding instructor. He was very flexible in what the class needed. He was very accommodating and resourceful in answering the class questions.
Clay's teaching style is greatly appreciated.
Facilities comments: Were good
User: dennij
Instructor comments: Very professional and knowledgeable. Available before and after class.
Facilities comments: Location was nice but too far from Lackland.
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