PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)®

Majd Aldeen MasriahSystem Development Team LeaderNov 17, 2016

Outline

• PMI overview

• PMI-ACP® Certification

• Why agile?

• When agile?

• Agile principles and mindsets

• Agile vs Traditional

• Agile methodologies

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PMI Overview

• Organization

• PMBOK®

• Certifications• CAPM®• PMP®• PgMP®• PfMP®• PMI-ACP®• PMI-RMP®• PMI-SP®• PMI-PBA®

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PMI-ACP® Certification

History• The credential was launched with a pilot program

at the end of 2011 and then a formal launch in 2012

• As of 31 May 2016 there were 11,801 PMI-ACP Holders

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PMI-ACP® Certification

Prerequisites• Bachelor’s diploma or global equivalent

• 2,000 hours of general project experience (PMP®, PgMP® satisfy)

• 1,500 hours of agile project experience

• 21 contact hours of training in agile practices

Exam• 120 multiple choice within 3 hours

• PMI does not publish passing mark

• 75% or higher to ensure success

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PMI-ACP® Certification

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Submit Application

• Within 90 days

Application Review

• Within 5-10 days Process Payment

Audit Process

• If selected

Exam Eligibility

• For one year

Certification Cycle

• Last for 3 years

• 30 PDU’s

• Renewal payment

Why agile?

• Different types of projects require different methods

• Business processes complexity

• Economic challenges

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When agile?

Criteria Agile Traditional

Deadline (urgency) Aggressive Normal

Complexity High Low

Novelty (uniqueness) High Low

Project Intangible Tangible

Requirement High level Well defined

Task Unique Repeated

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Agile principles and mindsets

• Progressive elaboration (Rolling Wave Planning)

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Agile principles and mindsets

• Adaptation

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Agile principles and mindsets

• Time boxing

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Agile principles and mindsets

• Iterative vs incremental delivery

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Agile principles and mindsets

• Agile manifesto

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Working softwareover

comprehensive documentation

Responding to change over

following a plan

Customer collaboration over

contract negotiation

Individuals and interactions over

processes and tools

Agile vs Traditional

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• PMBOK® project phases

• Waterfall project phases

• Agile project phases

Initiating Planning Executing Controlling Closing

Analysis Design Implementation Testing Deployment

Product Planning Release Release Release Retrospective

Agile vs Traditional

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• Agile release

• Agile iteration

• Agile daily work

Release Planning Iteration Iteration Iteration Retrospective

Iteration Planning Daily Work Daily Work Daily Work Review & Retrospective

Daily Standup Task Task Task Update Progress

Agile vs Traditional

Typical waterfall model Agile model with iterations

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Requirements

Design

Implementation

Verification

Maintenance

Requirements

Design

ImplementationVerification

Maintenance

Requirements

Design

ImplementationVerification

Maintenance

Agile vs Traditional

Agile Project Management Traditional Project Management

Focus on customer satisfaction and interaction Focus on plans and artifacts

Response to change via adaptive action Change controlled via corrective action

Progressive elaboration, rolling wave planning Up-front planning

Time-boxed delivery Scope-based delivery

Collaboration on self-disciplined and self organizing team

Top-down control

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Agile methodologies

• Scrum

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Agile methodologies

• Scrum roles

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Agile methodologies

• Statistics

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