PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) preparation Course, July 4, 10 and 11, 8 AM to 5 PM 

Duration: 3 Days | 21 Hours

Course Dates & Times:
July 4th, 10th & 11th, 2021 (8:00 am–5:00 pm EST)

Fees:
APICS Toronto Members: $500 + HST
Non-Members: $600 + HST

Certification of Maintenance: 21.0 points

OVERVIEW:  

World is changing around us, and Agile Project Management methodology is transforming the way we manage projects across all the sectors, including Engineering, Construction and Software. Please come and understand why there are 5798 job postings (on indeed.ca) when you search word “Agile”, across GTA.   

Some Projects have clear requirements from the beginning of the project, and complete planning can be done (Initiation to Closure). Once the Plan is made, everyone follows the plan and completes all the activities, one after the other and delivers one time, only one end product. This approach is known as Waterfall Project Management approach and is the most common and most in use project management approach.  

On the other hand, lots of Projects do not have clear requirements at the beginning, client is not sure what they want, and a different iterative and incremental project management approach has to be applied. This approach is called Agile Project Management. Repeated increments of Products are delivered every week or every month, and the Customer and the Agile team gets more clarity about the project as they work on priority items, one by one. 

Agile Project Management focusses on 4 Values, 12 Principles and Practices (Lean, Agile- Scrum, XP, DSDM, Crystal and more methodologies). Agile professionals understand the foundation of all the practices and uses them as it fits their project needs.  

Lean thinking is the foundation of Agile methodologies. Lean believes in respecting your staff, letting them make decisions on the product and estimation. Leaders only act as Servant Leaders and they trust the staff (development team) to make all the discission related to the actual work. Requirements are always taken from the Clients, the client, and the team works together to find a solution, at speed and is done incrementally. 

OBJECTIVES: 

In this powerful half-day overview, you will understand the difference between Waterfall and Agile. You will be able to lead your teams in future and will be able to use the right methodology that fit your needs, whether will be Agile or Waterfall. You will also understand 4 Values and 12 Principles of Agile. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 

If you work on agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices, then Agile knowledge is a good choice for you. Agile training and certifications are evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill as part of an agile team. 

COURSE MATERIALS: 

QCDMS Consultants are Authorized Training Partner with PMI USA and Charanjit Singh Bawa is an Authorized Training Facilitator to deliver PMI approved courses. 

PMI-ACP® EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE 

The PMI-ACP® examination will consist of 100 scored items and 20 unscored (pre-test) items. The unscored items will not be identified and will be randomly distributed throughout the exam. The allocation of questions will be as follows: 

DOMAINS AND TASKS COVERED IN THIS COURSE AS PER PMI-ACP® REQUIREMENTS- 

Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset (9 tasks) 

Explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization. 

Domain II. Value-Driven Delivery (4 sub-domains, 14 tasks) 

Deliver valuable results by producing high-value increments for review, early and often, based on stakeholder priorities. Have the stakeholders provide feedback on these increments and use this feedback to prioritize and improve future increments. 

Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement (3 sub-domains, 9 tasks) 

Engage current and future interested parties by building a trusting environment that aligns their needs and expectations and balances their requests with an understanding of the cost/effort involved. Promote participation and collaboration throughout the project life cycle and provide the tools for effective and informed decision making. 

Domain IV. Team Performance (3 sub-domains, 9 tasks) 

Create an environment of trust, learning, collaboration, and conflict resolution that promotes team self-organization, enhances relationships among team members, and cultivates a culture of high performance. 

Domain V. Adaptive Planning (3 sub-domains, 10 tasks) 

Produce and maintain an evolving plan, from initiation to closure, based on goals, values, risks, constraints, stakeholder feedback, and review findings. 

              Domain VI. Problem Detection and Resolution (5 tasks) 

Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve in a timely manner; monitor and communicate the problem resolution status; and implement process improvements to prevent them from occurring again. 

             Domain VII. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People) (6 tasks) 

Continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of the product, the process, and the team. 

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THAT TRAINEES WILL TAKE AWAY ARE- 

Each statement is preceded implicitly by Knowledge of or Skill in 

• Agile values and principles 
• Agile frameworks and terminology 
• Agile methods and approaches 
• Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values 

• Stakeholder management 
• Communication management 
• Facilitation methods 
• Knowledge sharing/written communication 
• Leadership 

• Building agile teams 
• Team motivation 
• Physical and virtual co-location 
• Global, cultural, and team diversity 
• Training, coaching, and mentoring 

• Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri) 
• Self-assessment tools and techniques 
• Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration) 
• Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos) 
• Problem solving 

• Prioritization 
• Incremental delivery 
• Agile discovery 
• Agile sizing and estimation 
• Value based analysis and decomposition 

• Process analysis 
• Continuous improvement 
• Agile hybrid models 
• Managing with agile KPIs 
• Agile project chartering 

• Agile contracting 
• Agile project accounting principles 
• Regulatory compliance 
• PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR 

Charanjit Singh Bawa, PMP, Black Belt, Certified Scrum Master, Change Agent and Group Facilitator  

Charanjit is an Authorized Training Facilitator and Authorized Training Partner for PMI USA  

 A training professional utilizing Experiential Learning with a sound reputation of attention to detailed and focus on end goals. Specialized in: Practical Project Management, learned Project Management from Japanese Sensei while working for Honda. Successfully launched brand new, Daewoo Car Manufacturing Plant, HONDA Car Manufacturing Plant, Tier 2 Automotive Plant, managed 400 different product /program launches, coached 200 Project Teams on their Continuous Improvement Projects and continuing on the journey to save Billions of Dollars.  Uses best practices like LEAN, Agile, Change, Leadership Skills and Project Management methodologies, Program Management, Group Facilitation to improve Business. Prepared course materials from 10 knowledge areas, done numerous training topics, PROJECT MANAGEMENT Exam Preparation, Managing Project Teams, Leadership Skills, General Management and shared his experience with 12,000 trainees across GTA. 

Highly Detailed oriented and ensures all the 10 knowledge areas are covered during Planning stage (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Risks, Communications, Human Resources, Procurement & Stakeholder Management) 

26 years of multidisciplinary experience in different business aspects from Program / Project Management, Operations, Finance, support processes like Tooling, Maintenance, Quality Control, across all the sectors including Manufacturing, Service, Public Service, Construction, Healthcare, 

Education: Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Project Management Professional Project Management, Certified in ADKAR Change Management, Black Belt from ASQ and a Certified Facilitator from ICA Associates Canada 

Public Speaker for PMI (Lakeshore, Durham, Hamilton), APICS (Toronto, Peel, London), ASQ (Toronto, Peel, London, Kitchener) & OACETT. 

Extensive knowledge about planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling (applying Deming’s continuous PDCA cycle daily), and closing, and multi-disciplinary programs and projects.  

Master of Employee engagement through daily Project Huddles or Scrums, keeping everyone focussed on Project Scope, Budget, Schedule, and Time 

Teaching Daily application of PDCA and Daily Lessons Learned to keep the project in control 

Training Experience 

• Planned, developed, organized, and led over 200 effective PROJECT MANAGEMENT related training courses, topics, training over 12,000 professionals (out of these 4000 professionals belong to PMI professional chapters across Toronto Area in Canada). Trained these PROJECT MANAGEMENTs on PROJECT MANAGEMENT topics including Planning, Continuous Improvement, Change Manage3ent, Communication, Team Building, Technical (Statistical Analysis), Huddle structure, Team Management, and more topics  
• Agile training (Scrum, Lean and Kan Ban) 
• Successfully managed multicultural multidisciplinary courses, with up to 100 trainees. 

• Maintained very good satisfaction of course stakeholders, scoring 95% as overall feedback average.  
• Provided training to professional and educational organizations on Project Management Professional Project Management topics, Change Management, 5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT Process Groups and 10 Knowledge Areas  
• Effectively delivered training courses in classroom and virtual setups.