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Agile Project Management: Preparation for Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Course Overview

Invest in your professional growth and excel in the dynamic landscape of Agile Project Management with our expert-led course.

Designed to empower participants with the essential skills to navigate knowledge-based projects and apply agile methodologies.

Dive into a dynamic learning experience where participants not only acquire the critical tools and techniques for effective project management but also gain the competitive edge needed to pass the PMI-ACP® (Agile Certified Practitioner) certification exam.

Who Should Attend

This course relies on individual and group exercises aimed at helping participants learn all critical activities for agile project management. The course also includes several case studies and presentations by participants, followed by group discussions. In addition, this course incorporates pre-and post-testing.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define agile project management frameworks, processes, methodologies and agile mindset in compliance with the Project Management Institute (PMI) standards
  • Implement value-driven delivery approach in agile projects
  • Engage the agile project stakeholders through establishing an active dialogue
  • Explain the roles and responsibilities for each member of the team and build a high-performance agile team
  • Implement adaptive planning on the agile project that will enable the team to respond to changes effectively
  • Detect issues and risks in agile projects, manage them and determine the best way to resolve them
  • Incorporate continuous improvement to agile projects through process analysis and process tailoring
  • Apply for the certification examination in order to take the PMI-ACP Exam

Course Content

Agile Principles and Mindset

  • Core principles of agile project management
  • The agile manifesto: The four values
  • Traditional versus agile project management
  • Agile methodologies:
    • Scrum
    • Extreme Programming (XP)
    • Lean product development
    • Kanban
  • Agile leadership

Value-driven Delivery

  • Assessing value
  • Prioritizing schemes:
    • MoSCoW
    • Monopoly money
    • Dot voting
    • Kano analysis
  • Minimal value product
  • Agile contracting
  • Test-Driven-Development (TDD)

​Stakeholders Engagement

  • Principles of stakeholders engagement
  • Agile modeling
  • Wireframes
  • Personas
  • Communicating collaboratively
  • Using critical interpersonal skills

Team Performance

  • Agile team roles
  • Building and maintaining high-performance teams
  • Models of team development
  • Training, coaching, and mentoring
  • Creating collaborative workspaces
  • Distributed teams
  • Tracking team performance

Adaptive Planning

  • Progressive elaboration
  • Value-based decomposition
  • User story (product) backlog
  • Sizing tools for high-level planning (affinity estimating, t-shirt sizing)
  • Story maps
  • Product roadmaps
  • Release and iteration planning

Problem Detection and Resolution

  • Understanding problems
  • Cycle time, WIP, and throughput
  • Managing threats and issues

Continuous Improvement

  • Process tailoring
  • Value stream mapping
  • Retrospectives

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Course Code DU1203 Category
Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: 5 Days
Language: English
Cost: 15,770 SAR
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