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

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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

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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

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