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- 1. Introduction to the PMI-ACP Certification Brought to you by the PMI-LA Professional Development Group 2013
- 2. Agenda • Who should apply? • Eligibility requirements – Experience – Training – Examination • Overview of exam components • Tips for passing the exam • Reference material
- 3. Who should apply? • Practitioners who are seeking to: – Demonstrate to employers their level of professionalism in agile practices of project management – Increase their professional versatility in both Waterfall and agile techniques – Hold a certification that is more credible than existing entry- level, training or exam-only based offerings • The PMI-ACP is not limited to project managers or Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders – Individuals with experience working on agile project teams can apply
- 4. Eligibility Requirements Requirement Description General Project Management • 2,000 hours working on project teams Experience • These hours must be earned within the last 5 years • Active PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement Agile Project Management • 1500 hours working on agile project teams or with Experience 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 Agile Project Management • 21 contact hours Training • Hours must be earned in agile practices Examination • Tests knowledge of agile fundamentals
- 5. 6 Major Domains of Practice • Domain 1: Value-driven delivery – Define positive value – Incremental development – Avoid potential downsides – Prioritization • Domain 2: Stakeholder engagement – Stakeholder needs, involvement and expectations • Domain 3: Boosting team performance practices – Team formation, empowerment, collaboration and commitment • Domain 4: Adaptive planning – Levels of planning – Adaptation – Estimation – Velocity/throughput/cycle time • Domain 5: Problem detection and resolution • Domain 6: Continuous improvement (product, process, people)
- 7. Agile tools & techniques – 50% Agile knowledge & skills – 50% Communications - information radiator, team space, agile tooling, osmotic Level 1 (33%) communications for collocated and or distributed teams, daily stand ups Active listening, Agile Manifesto value and principles, Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values, Brainstorming Planning, monitoring and adapting - retrospectives, task/kanban boards, techniques, Building empowered teams, Coaching and mentoring time-boxing, Iteration and release planning, WIP limits, burn down/up charts, within teams, Communications management, Feedback techniques cumulative flow diagrams, process tailoring for product (e.g. prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, Agile estimation - relative sizing/story points, wide band Delphi/planning evaluations), Incremental delivery, Knowledge sharing, Leadership poker, affinity estimating, ideal time tools and techniques, Prioritization, Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques, Project and quality standards for Agile projects, Stakeholder management, Team motivation, Time, budge, and cost estimation, Value-based decomposition and prioritization Agile analysis and design - product road map, user stories/backing, story Level 2 (12%) maps, progressive elaboration, wire-frames, chartering, persona, agile Agile frameworks and terminology, Building high-performance modeling teams, Business case development, Co-location (geographic proximity)/distributed teams, Continuous improvement processes, Product quality - frequent verification and validation, test-driven Elements of a project charter for an Agile project, Facilitation development/test first development, definition of done, continuous methods, Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based. Shared integration collaboration, command), PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Soft skills negotiation - emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptive Conduct, Process analysis techniques, Self assessment, Value-based leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, servant leadership analysis Value-based prioritization - return on investment (ROI)/net present value (NPV)/internal rate of return (IRR), compliance, customer-valued prioritization, minimally marketable feature (MMF), relative prioritization/ranking Risk management - risk-adjusted backlog, risk burn down graphs, risk-based Level 3 (5%) spike Agile contracting methods, Agile project accounting principles, Applying new Agile practices, Compliance (organization), Control Metrics - velocity, cycle time, earned value management (EVM) for agile limits for Agile projects, Failure modes and alternatives, projects, escaped defects Globalization, culture, and team diversity, Innovation games, Value stream analysis - value stream mapping Principles of systems thinking (e.g. complex adaptive, chaos), Regulatory compliance, Variance and trend analysis, Variations in Agile methods and approaches, Vendor management,
- 8. Tips to prepare for the exam • Review the PMI-ACP Handbook • Use the PMI-ACP Examination Content Outline to guide your study • Review the current PMI-ACP reference list • Enroll in a formal study course offered by PMI chapters or Registered Education Providers (R.E.P.s). – You can also review self-study books published by R.E.P.s and other reputable training organizations • Form a study group with colleagues or friends; you can meet in person or virtually • Read the AgileBOK - www.agilebok.org (Not endorsed by PMI) • Take practice exams