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A Deep Look at Agile Certifications
1. A Deep Look at Agile Certifications
Richard Cheng
Agile Center of Excellence
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4. The Agile Manifesto
“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more. “
- The Agile Manifesto
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5. Agile Principles
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the
customer's competitive advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the
shorter timescale.
4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust
them to get the job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-
to-face conversation.
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress. Agile processes promote sustainable development.
8. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior
accordingly.
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6. Agile Principles
1. Satisfy the customer through 7. Working software is the primary
early and continuous delivery measure of progress
8. Sustainable pace
2. Welcome changing requirements
9. Technical excellence and good
3. Deliver frequently, preferring a design enhances agility
shorter timescale
10. Simplicity, maximizing the amount
of work not done
4. Business & technical work
together daily
11. Best results emerge from self-
organizing teams
5. Pick the right team & trust them
12. The team regularly reflects
6. Face-to-Face Communication to become more effective
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7. Agile Methodologies
Agile
Scrum XP Lean
DSDM
Kanban Agile RUP
Atern
FDD BDD …
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8. Project Management Institute
• Most recognized project management certification
organization
• One Agile certification available
– PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
– Developed by Agile thought leaders
• Just completed pilot program
– Pilot exams began in October
– Pilot ended November 30, 2011
– Results send out January 9, 2012
– PMI-ACP testing begins January 31, 2012
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9. PMI-ACP
• Requirements
– General Project Management Experience – 2000 hours within last 5
years. If you have an active PMP, you meet this requirement.
– Agile Project Management Experience – 1500 hours within last 2 years.
– Agile Project Management Education – 21 contact hours.
– Application
– Exam – Application must be approved.
– Maintenance – 30 PDU's every 3 years. These hours count towards fulfilling
PMP requirements as well.
• Costs
– $435 for member, $495 for non-member to take exam.
– Cost of classes/seminars (~$1500) before exam and after for maintenance.
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10. PMI-ACP Exam Pilot
• 120 questions, 20 pretest questions that are thrown
out
• Passing scored not yet published
• Unofficial numbers (from LinkedIn PMI-ACP group):
– 7654 Applications Opened
– 1404 Applications Submitted
– 827 Exam Applicants Paid
– 557 Exams Taken
– 515 PMI-ACP Certificates awarded during the Pilot
Program
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12. Official Reference
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Agile Estimating and Planning
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen Mike Cohn
ISBN #0977616649 ISBN #0131479415
Agile Software Development: The Art of Agile Development
The Cooperative Game – 2nd Edition
James Shore
Alistair Cockburn
ISBN #0596527675
ISBN #0321482751
The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility User Stories Applied:
Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick For Agile Software Development
ISBN #0321502752 Mike Cohn
ISBN #0321205685
Coaching Agile Teams
Lyssa Adkins Agile Project Management with Scrum
ISBN #0321637704 Ken Schwaber
ISBN #073561993X
Agile Project Management:
Creating Innovative Products – 2nd Edition
Lean-Agile Software Development:
Jim Highsmith
Achieving Enterprise Agility
ISBN #0321658396
Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott
Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world ISBN #0321532899
Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky
ISBN #1933988258
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13. Content Distribution
Knowledge & Tools &
Skills, 50 Techniques, 50
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15. Knowledge & Skills (50%)
Level 1: 33% = 40 questions Level 2: 12% = 15 questions Level 3: 5% = 6 questions
• Active listening • Agile frameworks and terminology • Agile contracting methods
• Agile Manifesto value and principles • Building high-performance teams • Agile project accounting principles
• Assessing and incorporating community • Business case development • Applying new Agile practices
and stakeholder values • Colocation (geographic • Compliance (organization)
• Brainstorming techniques proximity/distributed teams) • Control limits for Agile projects
• Building empowered teams • Continuous improvement processes • Failure modes and alternatives
• Coaching and mentoring within teams • Elements of a project charter for an • Globalization, culture, and team
• Communications management Agile project diversity
• Feedback techniques for product (e.g. • Facilitation methods • Innovation games
prototyping, simulation, • Participatory decision models (e.g., • Principles of systems thinking (e.g.
demonstrations, evaluations) input-based. Shared collaboration, complex adaptive, chaos)
• Incremental delivery command) • Regulatory compliance
• Knowledge sharing • PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional • Variance and trend analysis
• Leadership tools and techniques Conduct • Variations in Agile methods and
• Prioritization • Process analysis techniques approaches
• Problem-solving strategies, tools, and • Self assessment • Vendor management
techniques • Value-based analysis
• Project and quality standards for Agile
projects
• Stakeholder management
• Team motivation
• Time, budget, and cost estimation
• Value-based decomposition and
prioritization
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16. Helpful references
Scrum Guide
http://www.scrum.org/scrumguides/
PMI-ACP Web Page
http://www.pmi.org/en/Certification/New-PMI-Agile-Certification.aspx
LinkedIn PMI-ACP Exam Prep Study Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/PMI-Agile-Certified-Practitioner-PMIACP-3809643
PMI Agile Community of Practice
http://agile.vc.pmi.org
Agile Exams
http://www.agileexams.com/
Blog Post - PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) Study Tips
http://agiletraining.com/2011/09/24/pmi-acp-agile-certification-exam-study-tips/
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18. SA - Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Program started in 2002
• Requirements
– Two day class
• Exam
– 35 question exam in 60 minutes
– No failing score …. yet
• 135,551 students have taken the class (8/31/11)
• Over 95,000 CSMs (7/21/11)
• Costs
– Class costs $1000~$1600
– $50 renewal fee every two years
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19. SA - Certified Scrum Product Owner
(CSPO)
• Program started in 2007
• Requirements
– Two day class
• No exam
• 16,950 students have taken the class (8/31/11)
• Over 10,000 active CSPOs (as of 7/21/11)
• Costs
– Class costs $1000~$1600
– $50 renewal fee every two years
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20. SA - Certified Scrum Developer
(CSD)
• Program started in 2010
• Requirements
– Five days of training
• Three days of technical training
• Two day of Scrum training (CSM or CSPO will qualify)
– Formal assessment
– Application
• 980 students have taken the CSD class (8/31/11)
• Over 250 active CSDs (7/21/11)
• Costs
– Training costs $2000+
– $150 fee after application has been approved
– After two years, must go through application and approval process again
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22. SA - Certified Scrum Professional
(CSP)
• Program started in 2002
• Used to be called Certified Scrum Practitioner
• 1862 CSPs (12/31/11)
• Requirements
– Active CSM, CSPO, or CSD
– 2000 hours of Scrum related work in the past two years*
– Maintain a current Scrum Alliance membership*
– 150 question 3 hour exam (80% passing score)*
– PDUs will be introduced sometime prior to 2013*
• Costs
– $300 fee once eligibility is confirmed (if you do not pass the exam, you can re-take after 3 months)*
– Renewal every two years (PDUs to be introduced sometime prior to 2013)*
– Renewal of CSP automatically renews your lower level certifications (CSM, CSPO, CSD)
• Resources*
– CSP Candidate handbook, http://scrumalliance.org/resources/2733
– 35 question practice exam ($20), https://www.castleworldwide.com/castleweb/candidates/purchase-
test/purchase-practice-test.aspx?userid=&package_id=10865
*new as of January 1, 2011
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24. SA - Certified Scrum Professional
(CSP) – New Proposed Plan
• Professional Development Units based system
• 60 PDUs over 2 or 3 years
• Estimated cost $500 per 8 PDUs, roughly $3200
• PDUs earned through training from Certified Scrum
Trainers (CST)
• PDUs earned through coaching from Certified Scrum
Coaches (CSC)
• Shifts away from competing with the PMI-ACP to a
next step after the PMI-ACP
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25. SA - Certified Scrum Coach (CSC)
• Program started in 2007
• Requirements
– Active CSP
– 1500 hours of Scrum coaching over the past five years
– Two client references
– Three years of contribution to the Scrum community
– Application
– Certification Review Committee recommendation
– Scrum Alliance Board approval
• Total count 47 (as of 12/31/2011)
• Costs
– $100 application fee
– $750 per year to maintain certification
– Reapply every 3 years
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26. Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
• Program started in 2004
• Total count 129 (as of 12/31/2011)
• Requirements
– Application
– Course materials and exercises
– At least five recommendations from current CST’s
– Approval process
• Costs
– $250 application fee
– $7500 per year to maintain certification
– $50 per student taught
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28. Scrum.org
• Relatively new Scrum certification organization (founded
in 2009)
• Founded by Ken Schwaber because…
“Why did you found Scrum.org? Are you still with the Scrum Alliance?” I’ve been asked these questions countless
times since I left the Scrum Alliance and created Scrum.org last fall. This is the story of my journey with Scrum,
starting with its creation, moving through the establishment and evolution of the Scrum Alliance, and ending with
my work with Scrum.org. This journey has been shaped by two opposing forces: the desire to do the right thing,
and the desire to make money. I formed Scrum.org to refocus my efforts on doing the right thing.
• Strong Microsoft backing
• Five different Scrum certifications available
– Professional ScrumMaster I
– Professional ScrumMaster II
– Professional Scrum Product Owner I
– Professional Scrum Product Owner II
– Professional Scrum Developer
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31. Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master I
• Program started in 2009
• Requirements
– Fundamental understanding of
Scrum
– 60 minute exam – 85% is a
passing grade
• Costs
– $100 fee to take the exam (one
time only)
– Professional Scrum Foundations
course, ~ $1000-$1400 (not
required)
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32. Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master II
• Program started in 2009
• Requirements
– Active Professional Scrum
Master I
– Intermediate understanding of
Scrum
– 120 minute exam – 85% is a
passing grade
• Costs
– $500 fee to take the exam (one
time only)
– Professional Scrum Master
course, ~ $1000-$1600 (not
required)
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34. Scrum.org – Professional Scrum Product Owner I
• Program started in
February 2011
• Requirements
– Professional Scrum Product
Owner course (two days)
– 60 minute exam – 85% is a
passing grade
• Costs
– Professional Scrum Product
Owner course, ~ $1000
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35. Scrum.org – Professional Scrum Product Owner II
• Program started in
February 2011
• Requirements
– Active Professional
Scrum Product Owner I
– 120 minute exam – 85%
is a passing grade
• Costs
– $500 fee to take the
exam (one time only)
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36. Scrum.org – Professional Scrum Developer
• Program started in late
2009
• Requirements
– Five day course
– Java and .NET tracks
– 60 minute exam – 90% is a
passing grade
• Costs
– Professional Scrum
Developer course, ~ $2500
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38. International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
• Relatively new Agile certification organization
(launched late 2009)
• Founded by Alistair Cockburn, Ahmed Sidky
and Ash Rofail
• Three different Agile certifications available
– Certified ICAgile Professional
– ICAgile Expert
– Master Agilist
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40. Certified ICAgile Professional (CIP)
• 774 CIPs (as of 1/19/2012)
• Requirements
– Fundamentals of Agile course (two or three
days)
• Costs
– Fundamentals of Agile course, ~ $1000-$1600
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41. ICAgile Expert
• Five specialty tracks
– Agile Business Analysis and Value Management
– Agile Project Management
– Agile Facilitation and Coaching
– Agile Software Design and Programming
– Agile Software Testing
• Requirements
– Pick a track, attend courses (topics), receive topic certifications
– Attend several classes on a track to apply for Expert certification
• Cost
– Classes cost ~$1000-$1500
– Several classes needed for Expert certification
– Overall cost ???
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43. Master Agilist
• Requirements
– Show evidence of having learned multiple
approaches to your work, either a second
methodology or alternative techniques within the
specialty.
– Provide a portfolio of work, references, and
arrange for a preliminary screening.
– Perform work in front of a panel of experts.
• Cost
– ???
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45. Summary
Scrum Certifications Agile Certifications
Scrum Alliance PMI-ACP
• Most widely recognized • PMI Agile certification
Scrum certifications
• Entry levels are class • Test based
based
ICAgile
Scrum.org
• PSM based on • New offering, very
assessment without preliminary structure
required class • Specialized focus
• Assessment based
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46. Contact Information
Richard K Cheng
richard.cheng@excella.com
703-967-8620
http://www.excella.com
Twitter: @RichardKCheng
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