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Agile Courseware / Training Material
PMI-ACP® Certification Overview
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:
Know about Project Management Institute (PMI)®
List the library of PMI® global standards
Name the credentials offered by PMI®
Describe PMI-ACP® eligibility criteria, timeline and certification process
Identify the Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR)
Review exam information, content and reference material suggested by PMI®
About PMI®
About Project Management Institute (PMI)®
World's leading not-for-profit professional membership association
Founded in 1969
More than 700,000 members and credential holders
Across 260+ Chapters in 180 countries around the globe
39 Communities of Practice (CoP)
1000’s of research papers, case studies and article
Library of PMI® Global Standards
Foundation Standards Practice GuidesPractice Standards
&Frameworks
Foundation Standards
Foundation Standards
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition
The Standard for Program Management—Third Edition
The Standard for Portfolio Management—Third Edition
Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®)—Third Edition
Practice Standards & Framework
Practice Standards &Frameworks
Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures—Second Edition (Reaffirmed)
Practice Standard for Scheduling—Second Edition
Practice Standard for Project Estimating
Project Manager Competency Development Framework—Second Edition
Practice Standard for Earned Value Management—Second Edition
Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management
Practice Standard for Project Risk Management
Practice Guides
Practice Guides
Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide
Implementing Organization Project Management: A Practice Guide
Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide
Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide
PMI® Globally Recognized Credentials
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®
Program Management Professional (PgMP)®
Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) ®
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-BPA) SM
PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)®
PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)®
Benefits of Obtaining a PMI-ACP®
Demand
→ Demand for agile has tripled amongst PMI stakeholders in the past years, demonstrating the demand for these important skills
Demonstrate Knowledge
→ Demonstrates a practitioner's knowledge and skills in Agile principles, practices, tools and techniques
Coverage
→ Cover multiple agile methodologies, not simply limiting a practitioner to one agile approach
Benefits of Obtaining a PMI-ACP®
Versatility
→ Increase professional versatility in project management
→ Provides the practitioner a certification that is more credible than existing entry-level, training or exam only based offerings
→ Increase the practitioner’s versatility in project management tools and techniques, and show that the practitioner has the capacity to lead basic Agile project teams, or basic knowledge to be a member of an Agile team, and
Professional Development
→ Provide a framework for Agile training and professional development initiatives.
PMI fact fileCertification Active Certified Professionals
CAPM® Certified Associate in Project Management 29,273
PMP® Project Management Professional 669,688
PfMP Portfolio Management Professional (New in 2014) 252
PgMP® Program Management Professional 1,376
PMI-RMP® PMI Risk Management Professional 3,303
PMI-SP® PMI Scheduling Professional 1,394
PMI-ACP® PMI Agile Certified Practitioner 9,271
Other Statistics
Total Members 467,193
Total Chartered in 105 Countries 277 + 15 potential
Communities of Practices (CoP) 33
Total Copies of all editions (including PMI Published translations) of the PMBOK Guide in circulation
5,019,802
* Numbers as of August 2015
Eligibility requirement
Requirement Description
Educational Background • Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree of global equivalent
General Project Experience • 2,000 hours working on project teams
• These hours must be earned within the last 5 years
• Active PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement
Agile Project Experience • 1500 hours working on agile project teams or with agile methodologies
• These hours are in addition to the 2,000 hours required in “general project experience”
• These hours must be earned within the last 3 years
Training in Agile Practices • 21 contact hours
• Hours must be earned in agile practices
Examination • Tests knowledge of agile fundamentals
Fees (CBT) • US$435 for members and US$495 for non-members
Yes
No
Certification process
YOU PMI
Application Submission Application Completeness Review
Submit Payment
Schedule Exam(1 Year up to 3 times)
Provide Audit Material
Application Selected for Audit
Review Documents
Schedule Exam(1 Year up to 3 times)
If Accepted
10
90
7
Days
Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR)
Exam Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
30 PDUs
1 Year1
Year Su
spe
nsio
n
If no
PD
Us
ExpireSuspend
Exam Information
Exam can be taken within 1 year after getting eligibility.
Computer based exam can be scheduled online at any preferred prometric centers and at any available time
No scheduled breaks
You can move forward/backward through the questions or mark questions for re-review.
ScoredQuestions
Un-scoredQuestions
Total Exam Questions
Time
100 20 120 3 Hrs.
Exam Distribution - Domains and Tasks
VALUE DRIVENDELIVERY
20%14 Tasks
16%9 Tasks
AGILE PRINCIPLES AND MINDSET
17%9 Tasks
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
16%9 Tasks
TEAM PERFORMANCE
ADAPTIVEPLANNING
12%10 Tasks
PROBLEM DETECTION AND
RESOLUTION 10%5 Tasks
9%6 Tasks
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Tools and Techniques
Agile Analysis & Design Product roadmap, user stories/backlog, story maps, progressive elaboration, wireframes, chartering, personasagile modeling, workshops, learning cycle, and collaboration games
Agile Estimation Relative sizing/story points/T-shirt sizing, wide band Delphi/planning poker, affinity estimating, and ideal time
Communications Information radiator, team space agile tooling, osmotic communications for co-located and/or distributed teams, two-way communications (trustworthy, conversation driven), social media–based communicationactive listening, brain-storming, and feedback methods
Interpersonal skills Emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptive leadership, servant leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution
Metrics Velocity/throughput/productivity, cycle time, lead time, EVM for agile projects, defect rate, approved iterations and work in progress
Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting
Reviews, Kanban board, task board, time-boxing, iteration and release planning, variance and trend analysisWIP limits, daily stand ups, burn down/up charts, cumulative flow diagrams, backlog grooming/refinementand product-feedback loop
Process Improvement Kaizen, the Five WHYs, retrospectives, intraspectives, process tailoring/hybrid models, value stream mappingcontrol limits, pre-mortem (rule setting, failure analysis) and fishbone diagram analysis
Product Quality Frequent verification and validation, definition of done, continuous integration, testing, including exploratory and usability
Risk Management Risk adjusted backlog, risk burn down graphs, risk-based spike and architectural spike
Value-Based Prioritization ROI/NPV/IRR, compliance, customer valued prioritization, requirements reviews, minimal viable product (MVP), minimal marketable feature (MMF), relative prioritization/ranking, MoSCoW and Kano analysis
Knowledge & Skills
Agile values and principles Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
Agile frameworks and terminology Problem solving
Agile methods and approaches Prioritization
Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values Incremental delivery
Stakeholder management Agile discovery
Communication management Agile sizing and estimation
Facilitation methods Value based analysis and decomposition
Knowledge sharing/written communication Process analysis
Leadership Continuous improvement
Building agile teams Agile hybrid models
Team motivation Managing with agile KPIs
Physical and virtual co-location Agile project chartering
Global, cultural, and team diversity Agile contracting
Training, coaching, and mentoring Agile project accounting principles
Developmental mastery models (Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri) Regulatory compliance
Self-assessment tools and techniques PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)
Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
Reference Material
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams GreatEsther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken SchwaberISBN #0977616649
Agile Estimating and PlanningMike CohnISBN #0131479415
PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game – 2nd EditionAlistair CockburnISBN #0321482751
Exploring Scrum: The FundamentalsAuthor: Dan Rawsthorne with Doug ShimpPublisher: CreateSpace Publishing
PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to AgilityMichele Sliger, Stacie BroderickISBN #0321502752
User Stories Applied:For Agile Software DevelopmentMike CohnISBN #0321205685
PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Coaching Agile TeamsLyssa AdkinsISBN #0321637704
Kanban In ActionAuthor: Marcus Hammarberg, Joakim SundenPublisher: Manning Publications
PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products –2nd EditionJim HighsmithISBN #0321658396
Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise AgilityAlan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. TrottISBN #0321532899
PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile ExtremeAuthor: Robert K. WysockiPublisher: Wiley
Lesson Review
Define eligibility criteria (experience and training) for PMI-ACP® exam?
How many PDU’s are required every three years to maintain PMI-ACP® credentials?
Name any 5 tools and technique listed in the exam content outline
What are the seven domains of PMI-ACP® ?
Following references are used in the preparation of this lecture.
1. PMI website http://www.pmi.org
2. PMI Today January 2015 edition
3. PMI-ACP Examination content outline
4. PMI-ACP PMI’s recommenced reference materials
All registered and unregistered trademarks (service marks, brands, icons, copyrights etc.) mentioned
on this course are the property of their respective owners.
Content that references these trademarks is not sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the
respective trademark owners. PMI-ACP®, PMBOK®, PMI®, and PMP® are either marks or registered
marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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