- Cod curs: 606
- Durata curs: 4 zile
- Nivel curs: Avansat
- Disponibil: Clasic (in sala), Online (cu instructor)

NEW! Agile Certified Practioner PMI-ACP® Exam Prep
Cursul Agile Certified Practitioner PMI – ACP® Exam Prep ofera o pregatire avansata pentru sustinerea examenului de certificare PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®. In acelasi timp, ofera si cele 28 de ore de training in metode Agile, care reprezinta una dintre conditiile preliminare pentru inscrierea la examen.
Examenul de certificare verifica cunoasterea aprofundata a metodelor cele mai utilizate in proiectele de tip Agile si necesita acoperirea unei zone vaste de cunostinte Agile. Trainingul Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP Exam Prep va parcurge tehnicile si conceptele necesare pentru derularea unui proiect Agile, care se vor testa si in examenul de certificare.
Participantii vor intelege cum trebuie sa raspunda la examen si modalitatile recomandate de a citi intrebarea si a identifica optiunea corecta de raspuns. De asemenea, vor simula examenul de certificare, cu peste 100 de intrebari similare cu cele de la examen.
Demonstreaza ca ai experienta in proiecte agile, cu certificarea Agile Certified Practitioner PMI – ACP®. Un project manager certificat PMI-ACP cunoaste mai multe metode agile, stie sa lucreze bine in echipe de proiect, are abilitati de comunicare si aduce rezultate in proiecte de complexitate mare.
Certificarea PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) iti evidentiaza cunoștințele in principiile agile, si dovedeste ca poti folosi tehnicile agile.
Certificarea PMI-ACP arata ca stii mai multe metode agile: Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) Asa ca poti alege sa lucrezi in orice companie vrei tu!
In acest training de 4 zile sintetizam cunostiintele din peste 4000 de pagini, pe care ar trebui sa stiti la examen. Informatiile pe care le parcurgem la curs se gasesc in urmatoarele 12 carti, cunostiinte necesare pentru pregatirea examenului de certificare Agile Certified Practitioner PMI – ACP® :
- Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn
- Agile Practice Guide, by Project Management Institute.
- Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, by Jim Highsmith
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber
- Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, by Alistair Cockburn
- Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, by Lyssa Adkins
- Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, by Robert K. Wysocki
- Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals, by Dan Rawsthorne with Doug Shimp
- Kanban In Action, by Marcus Hammarberg, Joakim Sunden
- Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, by David J. Anderson
- Lean-Agile Software Development, by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development, by Mike Cohn
Structura curs "Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP® Exam Prep"
Domain: 1. Agile Mindset
1.1 Why agile?
- Industrial work versus knowledge work. Defined versus empirical processes
- Characteristics of the agile mindset
- Professional, team, and organizational agility
- Agile triangle
1.2 Iterative and incremental agile life cycles
1.3 Agile mindset
- The Agile Manifesto
- The principles behind the Agile Manifesto
1.4 Agile frameworks
- Scrum; Extreme Programming (XP); Lean product development; Kanban
- FDD – Feature-driven development; DSDM – Dynamic system development method; Crystal
- Adaptive software development; ScrumBan; Scrum@Scale
Principles of systems thinking
- Systems thinking; VUCA; Stacey matrix ; Cynefin model
- Other systems thinking models
- Design thinking to improve your agile process
Agile suitability tools
- Agile suitability filter tools dimensions: culture, team, project
Agile hybrid models
- Hybrid life cycles as transition strategy
- Mixing agile approaches
1.5 Collaborative team environment
Team vision and working agreements
- Charter the project and the team
- Working agreements
High-performing teams
- The team development model; Stages of team development
- Virtual teams
Retrospectives
- Importance of retrospectives
- Common retrospective problems
- Using retrospectives to shape future work
Collaborative practices
- Collaborative practices; Daily coordination meetings; Sprint planning
- Demos
Characteristics of Dysfunctional Teams
- Dysfunctions of a team: Inattention to results, Avoidance of accountability, Lack of commitment, Fear of conflict, Absence of trust
- Five levels of conflict. How do you manage conflict?
Tailoring the agile approach
- The shu-ha-ri model
- Tailoring
Scaling Agile
- Scaling frameworks: Scrum of Scrums, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LeSS, Nexus, Disciplined Agile®
1.6 Build transparency
- Information radiators
- How do we reduce the risks of distributed teams
Feedback loop for team and/or product owners
- Feedback loop characteristics
- Guidelines for estimating and planning
Communication strategies for colocated and distributed teams
- Global, cultural, and team diversity
- Digital tools for distributed teams
1.7 Foster psychological safety
No-blame culture
- Fear
- Psychological safety
- Exclusion
- The blame game
Safe environment
- Stages of psychological safety
- Stage 1: Inclusion safety
- Stage 2: Learner safety
- Skunk works
- How to promote well-being on teams
Constructive feedback
- Stage 3: Contributor safety
- Stage 4: Challenger safety
- Retrospectives as part of changing a team’s way of working .
1.8 Short feedback loops
Include customers
- Principles 1, 2, and 3 of agile development
- Frequent feedback; IKIWISI; Gulf of evaluation
- Personas, wireframes, and prototypes
Deliver value as often as possible
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Iterations, demos, and reviews
Tools and techniques
- Design thinking
- Lean Startup methodology
1.9 Embrace change
Promote a growth mindset to respond to change
- Feedback
- Servant leadership; Key responsibilities of servant leads on agile projects
Respond to changing requirements and priorities
- Principles 2, 3, and 4 of the Agile Manifesto
- Prioritizing the backlog
- Backlog refinement
Encourage and model T-shaped skills
- Generalizing Specialists
- T-shaped people
Domain: 2. Leadership
2.1 Empower teams
Establish an environment of trust
- Stages of psychological safety
- Transparency; Daily coordination meeting; Retrospectives; Team charter
- Motivating factors
- Implementing changes with your team
Collective ownership of goals
- Four main strategies
- Team norms; Pairing; Swarming
Training, coaching, and mentoring
- Agile coaching and mentoring
- Coaching at two levels: Coaching and mentoring teams; Coaching and mentoring individuals
Emotional intelligence techniques
- Emotional intelligence
- Leveraging diversity; Political awareness; Communications; Make connections
- Collaboration; Team building
- Leadership; Influential people; Change catalysts
- Conflict management
Nonverbal communication
- Active listening; Levels of listening
- Nonverbal communication: Turning the camera on during video calls; Body language; Tone of voice; Personal space; Discuss expectations; Quiet quitting
Self-assessment tools and techniques
- Shore and Warden self-assessment
- Jean Tabaka’s team self-assessment model
- Stefan Wolpers’ end-of-sprint poll
- Myers-Briggs personality-type indicator
- DISC Profile
- HIGH5 strengths test
- HEXACO personality inventory
2.2 Facilitate problem resolution
Investigate the root cause of problems
- Sampling
- The five whys; Fishbone analysis/Ishikawa diagram/ cause-and-effect diagram
- Kaizen
Resolution strategies with the team
- Engage the team; Get feedback early and often
- Spike
- No-blame culture
Detecting and resolving problems in a timely manner
- Testing types
- Risk-adjusted backlog
- Collaborative games for agile risk management
2.3 Promote knowledge sharing
Capture and share knowledge
- Lessons learned; Retrospectives
- Communities of practice
- Artificial intelligence agents for information sharing
Organizational knowledge assets
- Value delivery office; Project management office;
- Pairing; Dynamic reteaming
- Exit interviews
Knowledge sharing
- Lessons learned
- 20 percent time
- Professional development
- Technical debt . Martin Fowler’s technical debt quadrants
- Refactoring
2.5 Promote agile mindset principles, and practices
Environment for continuous improvement
- Leading by example
- Building a safe and supportive environment
- Rewarding an agile team
Recognize and celebrate agile behavior
- Jean Tabaka’s team self-assessment model; Shore and Warden’s self-assessment
- Feedback form customers and the product owner; Elicit feedback from your team
- Niko-Niko calendar
2.6 Promote a shared vision and purpose
Agile Project Vision
- Project vision statement
- Design the product box
- The product owner; Product owner as de facto change control board
- Developing a common vision
Communicate the project vision and purpose
2.7 Conflict management
Root cause and the level of the conflict
- Conflict is inevitable on an agile team
- Speed Leas’ levels of conflict
Collaborative approach to solve the conflict
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
- Specific skills and attitude
- Dual concern model
Domain: 3. Product
3.1 Refine the product backlog
Clarify the backlog items
- Backlog refinement strategies
Prioritize the backlog item
- Backlog refinement meeting; Progressive elaboration; rolling wave planning
- Refining the backlog
Decompose the backlog items
- Decomposing requirements
- Slicing user stories
- Iteration (sprint) planning
Tools and techniques for agile estimation
- Sizing work
- Story points; Fibonacci sequence; Story point guidelines
- Affinity estimating; T-shirt sizing
- Story map; Product roadmaps
- Wideband Delphi; Planning poker
- The mindset behind estimating and planning for agile
3.2 Manage increments in agile projects
Align product increments with business priorities
- Business value; Risk-adjusted backlog
- Prioritization methods: MoSCoW, Kano, Monopoly money, Ordered list
- Four cognitive biases that threaten project success
Product Increment
- Iterative (sprint) planning
- Release planning key components
- Iteration/sprint planning
Demonstrate increments of value for early feedback
- Demos and feedback
- Frequent verification and validation
- Continuous product improvement
Measure the delivery of value
- Measuring results
- Measurement of value
- Feature chart
- Assessing value: ROI, IRR, NPV
- Using EVM with adaptive projects
- Using Kanban metrics: Throughput and work in process; Lead time and cycle time
3.3 Visualize work
Work visualization techniques
- Kanban boards. General practices of Kanban. Task boards; Work item creation
- Tracking effort; Progress indicator; Velocity
- Personas
3.4 Manage value delivery
Define agile project success
- Defining success factors; Definition of success
- Successful criteria for agile approaches; Success patterns
- Definition of ready (DoR) and different ways to use it
Optimizing the value increments
- Prioritization factors: Financial value, Cost, New knowledge, Risk
- Relationship between risk and value
Domain: 4. Delivery
Early feedback
- Evaluate customer satisfaction; Customer satisfaction metrics
- Principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Iteration demo
Small product increments
- Limit rework and scrap by getting feedback early
- Constant minor adjustments
- Maximizing satisfaction for new product releases
Collect and incorporate stakeholder feedback
- Agile short cadences
- Feedback is only helpful if we act on it appropriately
- Go big by thinking small: the power of incrementalism theory
4.1 Manage agile metrics
Determine which agile metrics are appropriate
- Why do we measure? Leading versus lagging indicators
- Traditional project metrics
- Burndown chart; Burnup chart; Cumulative flow diagram
- Applying earned value management to agile projects
Radiate agile metrics across the relevant audience
- Basic communication model
- Communicating metrics to stakeholders: Information radiators, Rolling up measures
Review and analyze agile metrics
- Review sponsor and customer, product owner, team feedback
- Project measures and the six project controls
- Burndown charts and the six project controls
- Burnup charts and the six project controls
- Cumulative flow diagrams and the six project controls
- Analyzing metrics
Metrics for decision-making
- Velocity; Customer satisfaction score; Defect density
- Eliminating bottlenecks; What is a value stream?
4.2 Manage impediments and risk
Proactively identify risks and impediments
- What is risk? What is risk management?
- Agile is not a risk management approach. Layering risk management into agile. Identifying risks and impediments
Engage the team in risk management
- Planning risk responses; Business value retained
- Spike
- Short iterations
- The agile advantage toward risk management
Prioritize impediment removal and risk mitigation activities
- Put risk responses into the team’s backlog. Residual risk. Secondary risks
- Adjusting the value of a risk response action. Risk-adjusted backlog
- When not to manage a risk
Monitor/control risks and impediments
- Risk retrospectives. Reprioritize the backlog
- Visualizing risks. What is a risk burndown graph?
- Monitoring and mitigating threats through analysis and planning
4.3 Recognize and eliminate waste
Visualize the end-to-end flow of value in the system
- Definitions . Identify steps and queues in the process
- Process efficiency. Improving the process
Metrics, tools, and feedback loops to identify waste
- Metrics considerations. Useful metrics categories
- Tools
Waste-reduction activities
- Putting waste-reduction tasks in the backlog. Estimating the value of waste-reduction tasks
- Work with the product owner to set priorities; Review the results
- Theory of constraints; Deming cycle; Improving constraints through experiments
4.5 Perform continuous improvements
Metrics and feedback to drive continuous improvements
- Customer satisfaction metrics
- Team satisfaction metric
Improvement actions
- Refactoring
- Improving our process
Evaluate the effectiveness of process improvement
- Measuring process efficiency using a value stream map
- Measuring team engagement
- External reviews and audits
- Woking with your PMO, VDO, or ATO. Using a community of practice
- Use artificial intelligence
4.6 Engage customers
Identify and analyze customers and their needs
- Persona modeling; Interviewing
- Systems thinking; Lean Startup
- Techniques from product management
- Minimum business increments and minimum viable products
Iteration deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Frequent verification and validation
- Testing types
- Test-driven development and test-first development
- Behavior-driven development
- Using test-driven development for non-software projects
Collaboration between the customer and team
- Principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Collaboration ensures our team is building what the customer needs
- Trust: the key for successful delivery using agile approaches
4. 7 Optimize flow
Limit work in progress at all levels
- Why should we limit work in progress?
- Limiting work in progress at different levels: Organization, Department, Team, Individual level
Shield team members from interruptions
- Flow. What is flow? Interruptions increase error rates;
- “What about multitasking …” ; Deflection shield
- Limiting work in progress
Use metrics to analyze and improve flow
- What is work in progress
- Kanban metrics
Obiective / Beneficii curs "Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP® Exam Prep"
La sfarsitul acestui training , participantii vor avea cunostintele necesare pentru pregatirea si sustinerea cu succes, din prima incercare, a examenului de certificare Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®.
Audienta la cursul "Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP® Exam Prep"
- Persoanele care doresc sa se pregateasca si sa treaca cu succes examenul de certificare ca Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® de la Project Management Institute (PMI)®.
- Nivelul cursului NU este pentru incepatori, ci pentru persoanele cu experienta in aplicarea principiilor agile si in utilizarea de metodologii agile variate.
Cunostinte preliminare necesare
Pentru a beneficia din plin de acest training recomandam urmatoarele cunostinte preliminare:
- cunostinte avansate privind metodologiile agile
- experinta de min 1 an in project management (conducere de proiecte)
- experiente de min 8 luni in utilizarea medologiilor agile
Nu este o obligativitate, insa recomandam participantilor sa citeasca Agile Practice Guide elaborat de Project Management Institute (PMI)® inainte de participarea la training.
* Preturile nu includ TVA.
* Pentru persoanele fizice NU se aplica TVA.
Programul cursului este zilnic 9:00 -17:00 (pentru cursurile cu instructor)







De ce sa participati la cursul de pregatire certificare “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®“
- Trainingul este cursul oficial de pregătire pentru certificarea de agile project management “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®“
- Cursul este acreditat international de PMI (atat informatiile din curs si cat si trainerii) livrat de Trilex care este PMI ATP (Authorized Training Partner)
- Ca sa fiti mai bine pregatiti pentru certificarea agile PMI-ACP®, realizam impreuna un plan de pregatire dupa finalizarea cursului, adaptat stilului vostru de invatare
- Va ajutam sa va pregatiti pentru examenul de certifcare , cu raspunsuri la intrebari si clarificare, acolo unde intampinati dificultati.
- Va ajutam cu completarea aplicatiei pentru inscrierea la certificarea agile PMI-ACP®
- Pentru a obtine certificarea agile PMI-ACP® cu usurinta, aveti disponibile cele mai bune materialele de curs si teste grila similare cu cele de la examen
- Aveti acces la cei mai buni traineri din Romania, selectati si acreditati de catre PMI, in urma unui proces riguros
Ce veti obtine in urma participarii la cursul “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam Prep”
- Un training excelent de management de proiect agile oferit de traineri autorizati PMI ( PMI Authorized Training Partner). Toti trainerii Trilex care te tin acest curs (PMI-ACP) au trecut printr-un program riguros de pregatire si folosesc numai continut de curs oficial PMI ( PMI-approved training course content).
- Pregatirea temeinica cu un furnizor de training acreditat PMI ATP (Authorized Training Partner), pentru a obtine cu usurinta certificarea de management de proiect agile “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®“
- Salvati timp, avand access la sinteza a 12 carti, peste 3000 de pagini, tot ceea ce trebuie sa stiti!
- Insusirea cunostintelor necesare pentru pregatirea examenului de certificare PMI-ACP®
- Acces la sute de intrebari de similare ca la examen si simularea examenului de PMI-ACP® prin teste grile pe capitole si de sinteza (similar ca la examenul real)
- Diploma oficiala cu 28 ore curs – conditie de eligibilitate pentru certificarea de agile project management PMI-ACP®
- Ajutor completarea formularului online de inscriere la certificare “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®“
- Raspunsuri la intrebari de clarificare pe email, pentru a putea intelege mai bine conceptele de project management si a structurii examenului
Cand va pregatiti pentru examenul de certificare PMI-ACP cu Trilex – PMI Authorized Training Partner – obtineti:
- Materiale de curs oficiale, pentru pregatirea examenului “Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®“
- Cei mai buni traineri (certificati si aprobati de PMI printr-un proces riguros)
- Cursuri care sunt tinute si explicate de project manageri cu experienta reala si care au si ei o certificare valida de PMI-ACP
- Posbilitatea sa dati un feedback catre PMI si catre partenerul tau de training oficial PMI Trilex (Authorized Training Partner)
- Acumulare de concepte si invatare prin exemple, discutii, studii de caz si dialog intre trainer si participanti la curs
- 28ore de curs necesare pentru examenul de certificare PMI-ACP®
- Continut de training aliniat cu lista oficiala de carti si documente care stau la baza pregatirii examenului de certificare de la PMI.
Certificari corelate cu acest curs
Cunostintele dobandite la acest curs pot contribui la intelegerea, structurarea si consolidarea conceptelor necesare pentru examenele de certificare (vezi certificarile corelate de mai jos).
*Certificarea se obtine printr-un examen de certificare
Standardele la care este aliniat acest curs
Acest curs este aliniat (respecta) cele mai bune practici si tehnici din urmatoarele standarde internationale:
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