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

CPRIME( a PMI Global Authorized Training Partner), is offering this course to PMI KC Mid America Chapter patrons at a significantly reduced cost. If you are considering taking the PMI ACP Certification Exam, do not miss this amazing opportunity!

This PMI-ACP exam prep training not only prepares you to lead your next Agile project effort while ensuring that you are prepared to pass the PMI-ACP certification exam. This course provides a proven combination of class learning and testing that prepares students for some of the most difficult of testing situations. Questions are designed to allow you to learn through practice so that you will be able to apply what you have learned for the exam.

To stay relevant in the competitive, professional world, it is increasingly important that professionals can demonstrate true leadership ability on today's software projects. The Project Management Institute's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations, or even potential employers that you are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management, and delivery.

Course Objectives to Maximize the Value of your Portfolio include analysis of:

Learning Objective 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

Learning Objective 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	6	Planning, monitoring, and adapting
2	Agile estimation	7	Process improvement
3	Communications	8	Product quality
4	Interpersonal skills	9	Risk management
5	Metrics	10	Value-based prioritization

 

Learning Objective 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	12	Physical and virtual co-location	23	Agile sizing and estimation
2	Agile frameworks and terminology	13	Global, cultural, and team diversity	24	Value based analysis and decomposition
3	Agile methods and approaches	14	Training, coaching, and mentoring	25	Process analysis
4	Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values	15	Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)	26	Continuous improvement
5	Stakeholder management	16	Self-assessment tools and techniques	27	Agile hybrid models
6	Communication management	17	Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)	28	Managing with agile KPIs
7	Facilitation methods	18	Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)	29	Agile project chartering
8	Knowledge sharing/written communication	19	Problem solving	30	Agile contracting
9	Leadership	20	Prioritization	31	Agile project accounting principles
10	Building agile teams	21	Incremental delivery	32	Regulatory compliance
11	Team motivation	22	Agile discovery

 

This Class is for: Those who will be sitting for the PMI ACP certification exam, Project Managers, Program Managers, Analysts, Developers, Testers, IT Managers/Directors, Software Engineers, Software Architects, Software Managers, Testing Managers Team Leaders

Class Schedule: This class is 4 days - 4 ½ hours per day, Monday, August 9 ^th – 12 ^th, 2021 from 9:00 am – 1:30 pm Central Time.

PDU Credits Earned:21

Presenter: Cheryl Randle

Cheryl Randle currently delivers training for CPRIME and consulting to companies and individuals throughout the United States in Agile, Business Analysis, Project Management and System Development Life Cycle and Requirements Collaboration. She has worked with some of the largest corporations in the world, including IBM, Anheuser Busch, Arthur Andersen, Ralston Purina, and Hallmark. Her expertise includes responding to business challenges while steering the execution of customer-centric, operationally sound programs. She has been a presenter at several conferences including the Conference Board’s CIO’s Council of Canada.

Date and Time Information    

Start Date:  August 23rd, 2021     Start Time: 9:00 am Central

End Date:  August 26 ^th, 2021         End Time: 1:30 pm Central

Registration Cutoff Date:              August 13th, 2021
Registration Cutoff Time:               8:00 pm

Cost:

Members: $900

Non-Members: $1100

Location:  Virtual. Prior to the class, you will be provided a link to the class.

Members who take the course within 1 month of completing the boot camp, but and do not pass, may retake the course at no charge.

Refund/Cancellation Policy: http://kcpmichapter.org/Event_Cancellation_Policy