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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)®
Certification overview
Aleem Khan

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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®

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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

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Library of PMI® Global Standards
Foundation Standards Practice Guides
Practice Standards
&Frameworks

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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®)—Second Edition

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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

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Practice Guides
Practice Guides
Implementing Organizational Project Management:
Navigating Complexity
Managing Change in Organizations

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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)®

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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

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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.

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PMI’s Agile Certification Product Definition
 PMI-ACP is NOT a methodology specific certification (e.g. Scrum,
XP, Kanban, or Lean etc.)
 PMI-ACP is NOT an agile project manager credentials (role based
credential)
 PMI-ACP is NOT exclusively for IT
 PMI-ACP does NOT require PMP as a pre-requisites

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PMI-ACP® Certification Overview
 Pilot Exam began in October, 2011 and ended in November, 2011
 Official testing began in January 31, 2012
 6,987 certified professionals as of November, 2014

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PMI fact file
Certification Active Certified Professionals
CAPM® Certified Associate in Project Management 26,771
PMP® Project Management Professional 639,023
PfMP Portfolio Management Professional (New in 2014) 168
PgMP® Program Management Professional 1,131
PMI-RMP® PMI Risk Management Professional 2,966
PMI-SP® PMI Scheduling Professional 1,254
PMI-ACP® PMI Agile Certified Practitioner 6,987
Other Statistics
Total Members 451,664
Total Chartered in 105 Countries 273
Communities of Practices (CoP) 33
Total Copies of all editions (including PMI Published translations) of the PMBOK Guide in
circulation
4,745,105
* Numbers as of November 2014

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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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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

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Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR)
Exam Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
30 PDUs
1 Year
1YearSuspension
IfnoPDUs
ExpireSuspend

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Exam Information
Number of Scored Questions 100
Number of Pretest (Un-scored) Questions 20
Total Examination Questions 120
Allotted Examination Time 3 hours

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Exam Content Outline
Tools and
Techniques
50%
• Communications
• Planning, monitoring, and
adapting
• Agile estimation
• Agile analysis and design
• Product quality
• Soft skills negotiation
• Value-based prioritization
• Risk management
• Metrics
• Value stream analysis
Level 1
18 skills
33%
Level 2
12 skills
12%
Level 3
13 skills
5%
Knowledge
& Skills
50%

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Tools and techniques (50% of exam)
Communications Information radiator, team space, agile tooling, osmotic communications for co-located and/or distributed
teams, daily stand-ups
Planning, Monitoring, and
Adapting
Retrospective, task/Kanban boards, time-boxing, iteration and release 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
Agile Analysis & Design Product roadmap, user stories, backlog, story maps, progressive elaboration, wireframes, chartering,
personas, agile modeling
Product Quality Frequent verification and validation, test-driven development/test first development, acceptance test-driven
development, definition of done, continuous integration
Soft Skills Negotiation Emotional Intelligence, collaboration, adaptive leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, servant leadership
Value-Based Prioritization Return on investment(ROI)/net present value(NPV)/internal rate of return(IRR), compliance, customer-valued
prioritization, customer-valued prioritization, minimally marketable feature(MMF), relative
prioritization/ranking
Risk Management Risk Adjusted backlog, risk burn down graphs, risk-based spike
Metrics Velocity, cycle time, earn value management(EVM) for agile projects, escaped defects
Value Stream Analysis Value stream mapping

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Knowledge & Skills (50% of exam)
Level 1 Skills
Active Listening
Agile Manifesto value and principles
Assess and incorporating community and stakeholder values
Brainstorming techniques
Building empowered teams
Coaching and mentoring within teams
Communications management
Feedback, techniques for product (e.g. prototyping, simulation, demonstration,
evaluations)
Incremental delivery
Knowledge sharing
Leadership tools and techniques
Prioritization
Problem-solving strategies, tools and techniques
Project and quality standards for Agile projects
Stakeholder management
Team motivation
Time, budget, and cost estimation
Value based decomposition and prioritization
Level 2 Skills
Agile framework and terminology
Building high-performance teams
Business case development
Colocation (geographical proximity) / distributed
teams
Continuous improvement process
Elements of a project charter for an Agile projects
Facilitation methods
Participatory decision models 9e.g. input-based,
shared collaboration, command)
PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Process analysis techniques
Self assessment
Value-based analysis
Level 3 Skills
Agile contracting methods
Agile project accounting principles
Applying new Agile practices
Compliance (organization)
Control limits for Agile projects
Failure modes and alternatives
Globalization, culture, and team
diversity
Innovation games
Principles of system thinking (e.g.
complex, adaptive, chaos)
Regulatory compliance
Variance and trend analysis
Verifications in Agile methods and
approaches
Vendor management

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Domains and Tasks for PMI-ACP®
 Domain 1: Value-Driven Delivery
 Domain II: Stakeholder Engagement
 Domain III: Boosting Team Performance Practices
 Domain IV: Adaptive Planning
 Domain V: Problem Detection and Resolution
 Domain VI: Continuous Improvement(Product , Process, People)

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Reference Material
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber
ISBN #0977616649
Agile Estimating and Planning
Mike Cohn
ISBN #0131479415

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PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game – 2nd
Edition
Alistair Cockburn
ISBN #0321482751
The Art of Agile Development
James Shore
ISBN #0596527675

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PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility
Michele Sliger, Stacie Broderick
ISBN #0321502752
User Stories Applied:
For Agile Software Development
Mike Cohn
ISBN #0321205685

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PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Coaching Agile Teams
Lyssa Adkins
ISBN #0321637704
Agile Project Management with Scrum
Ken Schwaber
ISBN #073561993X

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PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products –
2nd Edition
Jim Highsmith
ISBN #0321658396
Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise
Agility
Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott
ISBN #0321532899

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PMI-ACP® Reference Material (Cont.)
Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world
Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky
ISBN #1933988258

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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
 The PMI-ACP® exam outline divides knowledge and skills into
three levels. Name any two knowledge and skills from each skills
level
 What are the five domains of PMI-ACP® ?

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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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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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