ACP GUIDE.pdf

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By :Mohamed Gouda, SFC ™, PMI-ACP ®, PMP ®
‫معتمد‬ ‫آجايل‬ ‫ممارس‬ ‫شهادة‬
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‫األمريكي‬ ‫المشروعات‬ ‫إدارة‬ ‫معهد‬

 The Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
certification was created by the Project Management
Institute to meet the needs of project managers who
have increasingly found themselves working with agile
methods, methodologies, practices, and techniques.
 And just like with the PMP certification, PMI has
constructed an exam based on real world tasks,
tools, and practices used by agile teams every day.
 The PMI-ACP exam is designed to reflect the
way teams work in the real world. It covers the
most common methods and methodologies,
including Scrum, XP, and Lean/Kanban. The
exam questions are based on knowledge and
real-world tasks that teams use every day.

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® handbook
This handbook contains information on how you can
apply for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
certification.
It applies to both computer-based and paper-based
testing candidates.
PMI requires that all certification applicants read the
entire handbook.
The purpose of this handbook is to provide you with
important information about the policies and procedures
for obtaining and maintaining the PMI-ACP®
certification.

Certificate Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for the PMI-ACP® certification, candidates must meet the following
educational and professional experience requirements.
Educational
Background
General Project
Experience
Agile Project
Experience
Training in Agile
Practices
Secondary degree
(high school diploma,
associate’s degree or
global equivalent)
2,000 hours (12 months)
working on project teams
must have been earned
in the last 5 years.
PMP® or PgMP®
credential holders
already meet this criteria
and do not need to earn
additional hours.
1,500 hours (8 months)
working on project teams
using agile
methodologies.
This experience must
have been earned in the
last 3 years. These hours
are in addition to the
2,000 hours required in
general project
experience.
21 contact hours must
have been earned in
agile practices.
Certificate Validity Renewal Requirements
3 Years 30 PDU

Exam Information
The PMI-ACP exam is comprised of 120 multiple-choice questions. Of the 120
questions, 20 are considered pretest questions. Pretest questions do not affect
the score and are used in examinations as an effective and legitimate way to
test the validity of future questions. All questions are randomly placed
throughout the exam.
No. of Scored Questions
No. of Pretest (Unscored)
Questions
Total Examination
Questions
100 20 120
Allotted Examination Time
3 hours
The allotted time to complete the computer-based examination (CBT) is three hours.

Exam Information
The PMI-ACP certification exam is developed based on the PMI-ACP® Examination Content Outline.
The exam blueprint details the topic areas (or domains) in which exam questions will focus. The
allocation of questions will be as follows:
Domain Percentage of Items on the Test
Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset 16%
Domain II. Value-driven Delivery 20%
Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement 17%
Domain IV. Team Performance 16%
Domain V. Adaptive Planning 12%
Domain VI. Problem Detection and Resolution 10%
Domain VII. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People) 9%

Key Domains and Tasks
 The role delineation study for agile project managers
was instrumental in the creation of the PMI-ACP®
certification examination.
 The tasks identified in the study have been organized
into major domains of practice and are listed in the
PMIACP ® Examination Content Outline.
 Each exam question is referenced to texts, such as
those noted on the PMI-ACP® examination preparation
reference list.
 Candidates are urged to use the Examination Content
Outline to guide their study and are also encouraged to
study current references in agile, such as those on the
reference list.

Key Domains and Tasks
7-Domains
Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset
Domain II. Value-driven Delivery
Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement
Domain IV. Team Performance
Domain V. Adaptive Planning
Domain VI. Problem Detection and Resolution
Domain VII. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)

Domain -1 ( Agile Principles and Mindset )

Domain -2 ( Value-Driven Delivery )

Domain -3 ( Stakeholder Engagement )

Domain -4 ( Team Performance )

Domain -5 ( Adaptive Planning )

Domain -6 ( Problem Detection and Resolution )

Domain -7 ( Continuous Improvement )

Tools and Techniques

Knowledge and Skills
 Agile values and principles
 Agile frameworks and terminology
 Agile methods and approaches
 Assessing and incorporating community and
stakeholder values
 Stakeholder management
 Communication management
 Facilitation methods
 Knowledge sharing/written communication
 Leadership
 Building agile teams
 Team motivation
 Physical and virtual co-location
 Global, cultural, and team diversity
 raining, coaching, and mentoring
 Developmental mastery models (for example,
Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)
 Self-assessment tools and techniques
 Participatory decision models (for example,
convergent, shared collaboration)
 Principles of systems thinking (for example,
complex adaptive, chaos)
 Problem solving
 Prioritization
 Incremental delivery
 Agile discovery
 Agile sizing and estimation
 Value based analysis and decomposition
 Process analysis
 Continuous improvement
 Agile hybrid models
 Managing with agile KPIs
 Agile project chartering
 Agile contracting
 Agile project accounting principles
 Regulatory compliance
 PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

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