PMI – ACP (Agile Certified Professional) Certification Preparatory - Chennai

Course Objectives
•Prepare the participants for the PMI-ACP Certification.
•To impart sufficient knowledge and skills to the participants so that they can start practising the agile project management methodology at their work place.
•Provide 21 contact hours of instructor led training credits to the participants

Duration: 3 days (Sep29.09.2011 to Oct1.10.2011)

About Agile:
Agile project management consists of the family of iterative development frameworks like XP, SCRUM, RUP, TDD. Agile project management is ideal for projects, where requirements are higly volatile (evolving), or technology is very new to the team, or both. While it is a right fit for product development, it is not limited to that alone. It is beneficial for any creative work like web based application development, architecting phase of a civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing project, research projects etc. Even World Bank sponsored programs have successfully deployed agile project management, resulting in better results.

About PMI-ACP Certification
•Certification is offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA, from Sep 2011.
•Exam comprises of 120 multiple choice questions.
•Exam time is 3 hours.
•50% of the questions are from Agile tools and techniques.
•50% of the questions are from Agile knowledge and skills.
•Participants are required to undergo 21 contact hours of instructor led training based on agile project management, before applying for the exam.
•Participants can take the exam for a maximum of three times, within the one year period after gaining the required 21 contact hours.

Who must attend?
•Project managers
•Architects
•Team leads
•Would be project managers
•Pre-sales professionals
•Delivery heads

Our track record in Agile project management

•We Have Partnered with PMRI and successfully delivered several agile project management public workshops within India and outside India.
•We have delivered several corporate training programs on agile project management for several multinational large corporates, start ups and medium sized organizations.
•We have worked very closely with several teams (20+) teams in implementing agile project management.


Our PMI-ACP Course Strategy

Agile project management, based on P-D-S-A (plan-do-study-act) cycles is radically different from the conventional project management frameworks which are based on P-D-C-A (plan-do-check-act) cycles. It is value / principle based, than rule based. Inorder to fully appreciate it, it has to be experienced, rather than explained. Our strategy is to introduce the participants quickly to SCRUM methodology, which is one of the leading agile project management methodologies, then use scrum to explain/transfer additional knowledge and skills to the participants as prescribed by PMI, to make agile project management successful at the work place and to enable the learner to earn the PMI-ACP credential.
The course comprises of 10 sprints of two hours each. Each sprint culminates with an exercise or test, to reinforce the knowledge transfer. Sprints 1 to 6 will explains agile project management using SCRUM to the participants. Sprints 7,8,9,10 are focused on imparting the skills required to successfully implement agile project management. Upon successful completion of all sprints ( 1 to 10), the participants would have covered the complete syllabus, as prescribed by PMI, USA for their PMI-ACP certification.

Course outline
1.Overview of agile project management
2.Understanding the key roles, ceremonies and artifacts of SCRUM (One of the leading agile project management methodology)
3.Understanding user stories
4.Sprint planning meeting
5.Sprinting
6.Dummy project following SCRUM
7.Best practices and concepts
8.Soft skills
9.Value based prioritization – tools and techniques
10.Agile implementation

REGISTRATION
For registration and further information on the above training program, please feel free to contact us:
Ph: +91 9566165670 / 044 43320152
Mail: Venkat@tech360consultancyservices.com
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