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 details how a well-educated Product Owner and a knowledgeable Scrum Master can work together to deliver a successful product with Agile principles using SCRUM approach.  Designed specifically for students who want to learn the mechanics of an Agile / Scrum team being led by a Product Owner and a Scrum Master.

This course offers a firm grasp of Agile principles as they relate to new product development.  If you need to learn what is required to lead or participate in an Agile effort using the SCRUM approach within your organization, this course covers the Agile adaptive life cycle framework and everything in between.

Attendees to PM-232: Product Owner and Scrum Master Roles in AGILE using SCRUM 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 principles of empirical process control
• Understand the scope of the Product Owner role in detail
• Understand the scope of the Scrum Master role at a high level
• Understand the scope of the Scrum team roles and why there is no project manager
• Understand how the Scrum Master measures team velocity
• Understand the importance of having the product vision as an overarching goal galvanizing the entire Scrum team
• Understand the relationship between the vision and the product roadmap
• Understand the different estimation levels in Scrum
• Understand what the Product Backlog is and what it is not
• Understand Product Backlog grooming
• Understand that Scrum planning is adaptive, iterative, incremental, and collaborative

Target Student:

• Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.

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