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PMI-ACP Certification Preparation Programme

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Elevate your career and become an agile expert! Our 5-day PMI-ACP exam prep course equips you with the mindset, skills, and strategies you need to pass the PMI-ACP exam confidently and excel in agile environments. Explore each day’s focus and outcomes below, designed to ensure comprehensive coverage of PMI-ACP domains.

The PMI-ACP certification demonstrates your agile expertise with the industry’s only experienced-based, ISO-accredited exam. Gain a competitive edge in a fast-changing world and establish your ability to tailor your approach. Drive excellence through Scrum, Lean, Kanban and more—all while being truly agile and team-centric.

 

 

 

Introduction

Elevate your career and become an agile expert! Our 5-day PMI-ACP exam prep course equips you with the mindset, skills, and strategies you need to pass the PMI-ACP exam confidently and excel in agile environments. Explore each day’s focus and outcomes below, designed to ensure comprehensive coverage of PMI-ACP domains.

The PMI-ACP certification demonstrates your agile expertise with the industry’s only experienced-based, ISO-accredited exam. Gain a competitive edge in a fast-changing world and establish your ability to tailor your approach. Drive excellence through Scrum, Lean, Kanban and more—all while being truly agile and team-centric.

Organizations that embrace agility and adaptability outperform their counterparts, resulting in increased value. With the demand for agile practitioners soaring, the PMI-ACP certification is more valuable than ever. Developed by agile leaders, this certification equips agile practitioners with the mindset to apply agile principles effectively, along with the tools and skills needed to collaborate in any agile environment.

Why Choose Our PMI-ACP Exam Prep Course?

  • Comprehensive Coverage: Each day builds on PMI-ACP’s essential domains—Mindset, Leadership, Product, and Delivery—using real-world examples and interactive exercises.
  • Expert Instructors: Learn from certified PMI-ACP professionals with years of experience.
  • Interactive Learning: Practice with group activities, case studies, and hands-on exercises that reinforce agile principles and prepare you to apply them.
  • Exam-Ready Materials: Access to pm.ideas PMI-ACP test tool and practice exam, study guides, and expert tips tailored for the PMI-ACP exam.
  • Career Advantage: Gain a globally recognized certification, enhance your credibility, and position yourself for agile leadership roles.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Secondary degree, such as a high school diploma, GED (general educational development), or global equivalent
  • 24 months/ 2 years of agile experience within the last 5 years (a current PMP® satisfies this requirement but is not mandatory
  • 28 hours of training in agile practices, frameworks, and methodologies. Candidates with a third-party certification or who have completed a GAC core project management course, are pre-approved to fulfill this requirement.


This programme prepares candidates for the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification exam including:

  • Pre-assessment of eligibility of all candidates prior to course confirmation
  • Provision of CV templates, assistance with completion of CV’s, quality check, online CV application to PMI®
  • Access to elearning modules, online resources, study aids and sample test questions for up to 90 days after the Exam Preparation Session
  • 5 x 1 Day Training  Sessions with a PMI-ACP certifiied Trainer
  • Practice Exam, which is assessed and personalised study plan

 

Learning Objectives

Mastering the Agile Mindset

Topics:

  • Embracing agile principles and values
  • Creating a culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning
  • Building high-performing teams and improving through retrospectives
  • Promoting transparency, psychological safety, and adaptability

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand and apply core agile values and principles.
  • Foster an environment that encourages team collaboration and innovation.
  • Use retrospective techniques to drive continuous team improvement.
  • Promote psychological safety within teams, enabling open feedback and adaptability.

Agile Leadership Excellence

Topics:

  • Empowering and motivating agile teams
  • Effective coaching and mentoring practices
  • Conflict resolution and fostering a collaborative team environment
  • Creating a shared vision and purpose across stakeholders

Learning Outcomes:

  • Lead and inspire agile teams by creating a shared purpose and fostering collaboration.
  • Apply coaching, mentoring, and emotional intelligence to support team growth and problem-solving.
  • Manage and resolve conflicts constructively within agile teams.
  • Develop techniques to enhance team motivation, commitment, and collective ownership of goals.

Product Management in Agile

  • Managing and refining product backlogs
  • Prioritizing product features and delivering incremental value
  • Applying visualization techniques to improve transparency
  • Measuring and communicating value delivery

Learning Outcomes:

  • Effectively manage product backlogs to align with business and customer priorities.
  • Use tools and techniques to prioritize features and deliver value iteratively.
  • Apply work visualization techniques to increase transparency and improve workflow.
  • Define and measure value delivery to ensure alignment with customer needs and stakeholder expectations.

Agile Delivery & Optimization

Topics:

  • Continuous integration, delivery, and iterative improvement techniques
  • Managing agile metrics and eliminating workflow bottlenecks
  • Proactively handling risks and removing impediments
  • Engaging stakeholders and ensuring alignment with agile goals

Learning Outcomes:

  • Implement agile delivery techniques to optimize flow, quality, and efficiency.
  • Apply metrics to monitor progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve performance.
  • Manage and mitigate project risks, proactively removing impediments to team productivity.
  • Engage with stakeholders effectively to align on goals and gather feedback regularly.

Exam Strategy & Final Review

Topics:

  • Test-taking strategies and best practices
  • Practicing with simulated sample PMI-ACP exam questions
  • Reviewing high-priority topics and common traps to avoid
  • Personalized feedback on practice exams

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply effective test-taking strategies for managing time and reducing exam anxiety.
  • Recognize high-priority exam topics and common question types.
  • Improve confidence in answering PMI-ACP questions accurately.
  • Identify any remaining knowledge gaps and receive personalized guidance to address them.

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Upcoming Dates

Monday, 12 May 2025
Monday, 23 June 2025
Monday, 4 August 2025

 

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