PMI-ACP Extension: Lithespeed

PMI-ACP Extension*
1 day combination training & interactive workshop
Request a private workshop today to prepare your enterprise for Agile.

Date	Location Info	Trainer / Notes	Price
June 21	Reston, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$750*
CSM June 19-20	Reston, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 05.22.12
July 9	Costa Rica	Sanjiv Augustine	$450
July 19	Vienna, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$750*
CSM July 17-18	Vienna, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 06.19.12
July 20	Rockville, MD	Arlen Bankston	$750*
CSM July 18-19	Rockville, MD	Sanjiv Augustine	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 06.20.12
July 26	Houston, TX	Sanjiv Augustine	$750*
CSM July 24-25	Houston, TX	Sanjiv Augustine	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 06.26.12
August 8	New York, NY	Arlen Bankston	$750*
CSM August 6-7	New York, NY	Arlen Bankston	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 07.09.12
August 23	Reston, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$750*
CSM August 20-21	Reston, VA	Sanjiv Augustine	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 07.22.12
August 29	Rockville, MD	Arlen Bankston	$750*
CSM August 27-28	Rockville, MD	Arlen Bankson	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 07.30.12
September 6	Atlanta, GA	Arlen Bankston	$750*
CSM September 4-5	Atlanta, GA	Arlen Bankston	$1,495	Early Bird: $1,395 until 08.07.12

* Combine the one day PMI-ACP Extension Class with any two-day CSM class and receive your required 21 hours to sit for the PMI-ACP certification exam. If you combine these two classes back-to-back, you will receive an additional $250 discount.

Lithespeed is a PMI Registered Education Provider

Who Should Attend/ Prerequisites

Project Leads, Product and Line Managers, Project Managers, Developers, Testers, Business Analysts who have taken prior Scrum training and are looking to extend their knowledge to other agile methods like XP and Kanban, as required for the PMI-ACP exam.

This is not an introductory course, and requires that you have taken prior agile training in the form of a Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Product Owner or equivalent agile training. All meals are provided, as well as morning and afternoon snacks, and a wide selection of beverages available throughout the course.

Bonus Offerings:

8 PDUs toward PMI certification
Discount on Managing Agile Projects book

Course Overview

Build on your Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Product Owner certification and extend your agile project management knowledge to the material needed for the PMI-ACP exam with our one-day PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI – ACP) Extension preparatory course. We’ll cover all of the major Agile practices, specifically eXtreme Programming, Scrum and Kanban, and introduce Lean Thinking as well. This course goes well beyond the basics to equip students with the practical advice, real world examples and simulation exercises necessary to transition traditional project managers into agile project managers. You’ll not only leave with a refreshed knowledge of the agile movement and knowledge towards the PMI-ACP certifications, but also with a new confidence in your skills as a project leader and a new network of fellow agile practitioners.

Some of the Topics will Include:

PMI-ACP Exam Overview
Agile Refresher
Agile Software Development with XP
- Fundamentals
- Roles
- Bill of Rights
- Values
- Practices
Beyond Agile with Lean
- Value
- Waste
- Value Stream Mapping
- Flow
- Pull
- Continuous Improvement
Agile Project Management Revisited
- Risk Management
- Metrics and Reporting
- APM with Kanban
- APM with Scrum

Cost:

$750* per attendee (plus travel and expenses for on-sites).Successful attendees will be well positioned to take the PMI-ACP exam. In addition, this course will deliver 8 credits to count toward the PMI-ACP training requirement of 21 PDUs..

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