Training: AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PMI-ACP EXAM PREP)

From October 13, 2016 11:00 until October 14, 2016 19:30

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For the first time, Bosnia Agile presents preparation training for PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner). PMI-ACP is a certification provided by the leading Project Management organization – PMI. This training addresses all areas covered by the exam, reviews potential questions and provides tips and tricks on how to pass the exam for the first time.

During two training days you will be able to learn about the topics like Agile Mindset, most common Agile tools and techniques and methodologies, and practices like: Scrum, eXtreem Programming-a, Lean and Crystal Clear. Knowledge acquired by this training is necessary for every Agile project, plus, set of presented tools will make your work more efficient, and your collaboration perfect.

Also, training will show you how one Agile project works – from start until the end. Sample discussion subject are: Rolling-wave planning, Progressive elaboration, Feedback loops, Process tailoring, Customer collaboration… Besides these, constituents of every project – quality and risk – will be examined through the tools for tracking and monitoring tailored specially for the Agile world.

Training is based on lectures and exercises that encourage interaction and communication between students. For this reason, number of attendees is limited so that the participants can feel free to discuss, challenge and share their opinions and views.

Detailed syllabus:

Agile analysis and design
- Product roadmap
- User stories/backlog
- Story maps
- Progressive elaboration
- Wire frames
- Chartering
- Personas
- Agile modeling
Planning, monitoring and adaptation
- Retrospectives
- Task/Kanban boards
- Time boxing
- Iteration planning
- WIP limits
- Burn down/up charts
- Cumulative flow diagrams
- Process tailoring
Agile estimation
- Relative sizing/story points
- Wide band Delphi
- Planning poker
- Affinity estimating
- Ideal time
Business value prioritization
- Return on investment (ROI)
- Net present value (NPV)
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Compliance
- Customer-valued prioritization
- Minimally marketable feature (MMF)
- Relative prioritization and ranking

Risk management
- Risk-adjusted backlog
- Risk burn down graphs
- Risk-based spike
Metrics
- Velocity
- Cycle time
- Earned value management (EVM) on Agile projects
- Bugs and defectsi
Value stream analysis
Value stream mapping
Quality

Verification and validation
Test-driven development/test first development
Acceptance test-driven development
Definition of done
Continuous integration

Soft skills and negotiation
- Emotional intelligence
- Collaboration
- Adaptive leadership
- Negotiation
- Conflict resolution
- Servant leadership
Communication
- Information radiator
- Team space
- Agile tooling
- Osmotic communication for co-located and distributed teams
- Daily stand-ups

All topics are based on PMI-ACP specification. Subject are grouped in presentations about Agile Mindset, Agile Project and Scrum, XP, Lean and Crystal Clear.

WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR?

Basic knowledge about Agile methodologies is nice to have, but, training targets different participant groups: people who want to take the certification exam, Project managers who want to learn more about agile methodologies, Scrum Masters wanting to extend their knowledge beyond Scrum, Team leads wanting to develop soft skills, and to all others who want to practice and utilize Agile Project management knowledge.

Detail overview of requirements needed for the exam you can find on the official PMI page. Hours of this training can be counted as contact hours needed for the exam requirements. On this page you can find prices and all the options for taking the exam. Note that training costs do not cover the exam price and the exam is not included in the education.

Welcome to the training!

DATE AND PLACE

October 13 - 14, 2016

Academy387 (Bosmal Tower 1)

Milana Preloga

71000 Sarajevo

FEE

Regular fee: 449 BAM (230 €) + 17% VAT = 525,30 BAM (267 €)

Early bird registration until August 1, 2016.: 399 BAM (204 €) + 17% VAT = 466,80 BAM (239 €)

For five or more participants from the same organization, you will get price of four (4 + 1 package). Please contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for any additional information.

Bosnia Agile and PMI BiH Chapter members get addition 10% discount.

Participants of this training have free access to the Bosnia Agile Day 2016.

Price includes lunch (both days), coffee breaks and course materials.

Number of seats available is limited.

REGISTRATION

1. Click on the registration link and submit the registration form.

2. Pay the training fee.

Bank name: UniCredit Bank d.d

Bank address: UniCredit Bank d.d, Kardinala Stepinca b.b, 88 000 Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina

Account number: 3387202206363167

International Accounts

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EUR IBAN: A39 3387 2048 0636 4553

USD IBAN: BA39 3387 2048 0639 8503

Recipient: Udruženje za podršku razvoju agilnih metoda u BiH (exact wording is required)

Address: Milana Preloga 12, 71000 Sarajevo, BiH

Purpose: Attending "PMI-ACP", Oct, 2016 training

COURSE SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 13, 2016

09.00-10.30 - Lecture

10.30-10.45 - Coffee break

10.45-12.15 - Lecture

12.15-13.00 - Lunch

13.00-14.30 - Lecture

14.30-14.45 - Coffee break

14.45-16.15 - Lecture

16.15-16.30 - Coffee break

16.30-17.30 - Lecture

Friday, October 14, 2016

09.00-10.30 - Lecture

10.30-10.45 - Coffee break

10.45-12.15 - Lecture

12.15-13.00 - Lunch

13.00-14.30 - Lecture

14.30-14.45 - Coffee break

14.45-16.15 - Lecture

16.15-16.30 - Coffee break

16.30-17.30 - Lecture

LECTURER

Igor Parać is certified PMP, PMI-ACP and CSPO with skills perfected as Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Cisco Academy Instructor. Professionally he is doing training s for now over the ten years.

After finishing Electrical University in Sarajevo and obtaining the Engineering degree, Igor begins his career with software development and implementation. Also, he starts as a lecturer certifying his self in wide range of IT domain.

In more than ten years of work, Igor has led project for implementation of security banking systems for credit card manipulation, systems for analysis of large quantity of financial data as building core systems for large web portals. All projects were executed in international domain with team members spread throughout several continents.

In parallel, as an Agile coach, more than ten teams were directed and led to self-organization with his experience as a programmer and project manager.

Igor is member of Bosnia Agile and PMI BH Chapter organizations. Currently he is living and working in Vienna, Austria. You can check out his LinkedIn profile here.