PMI-ACP Training Introduction.pptx

PMI-ACP Online Training
Abhishek Prasoon
Agile Coach
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aprasoonin@yahoo.com | +91 9891819681

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Abhishek Prasoon (MCA, PGDM)
• 18 years of experience in IT industry. Have been working with
companies like NIIT, HCL, Mastek and Coforge
• 25+ IT Industry Certifications
• Winner NEXT 100 and Innovative CIO Award
• Author: The Forefront Manager and The Infallible Weapons
• Published 120+ articles on Technology and Management
• Trained 500+ Executives
• Orator on various platforms, avid traveler and Yoga
enthusiast
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekprasoon/
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PMP, PMI-ACP and CAPM is the registered trademark of PMI

• Why should you learn Agile?
• Is Certification necessary?
• Why PMI?
• Why PMI-ACP?
• Why Abhishek Prasoon?
Objective of these Online Sessions
• Acquire Knowledge and get Ready for New Role
(Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager / Team Lead)
• Pass PMI-ACP Certification
• Crack Interviews and get new High paying Job
• Get Promotion

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Source - https://tech.gsa.gov/guides/agile_faqs/

Project Management Institute
The Project Management Institute is a U.S. based not-for-profit professional organization for project management.
Its services include the development of standards, research, education, publication, networking-opportunities in local
chapters, hosting conferences and training seminars, and providing accreditation in project management.
Location - Pennsylvania, United States
Founded in - 1969
Membership - 680,000+
PMI has 304 chapters across World including 09 chapters across India.
Certifications and credentials offered by PMI:
1984: Project Management Professional (PMP)
2003: Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
2007: Program Management Professional (PgMP)
2008: PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
2008: PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
2011: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
2014: PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
2014: Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)
2020: PMI Project Management Ready
2020: Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)
2021: Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)
2021: Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC)
2021: Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC)

Agile Certifications
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Project Management Institute (PMI)
Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)
Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Leading SAFE (SAFe Agilist)
SAFe® Scrum Master (SAFe SSM)
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
SAFe® DevOps Practitioner (SDP)
SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)
Certified Scrum Product OwnerⓇ (CSPOⓇ)
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® (A-CSPOⓇ)
Certified Scrum Professional® Scrum Master (CSP®-SM)
Certified Team Coach SM Mentoring (CTC SM)
Certified Agile Leadership Essentials (CAL-E)
PRINCE2
PRINCE2® Agile Foundation
PRINCE2® Agile Practitioner
International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
ICAgile Certified Professional in Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility
Foundations (ICP BAF)
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Project and Delivery
Management (ICP-APM)
Scum.org
Professional Scrum Master I, II, III
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Professional Scrum Developer
Scaled Professional Scrum
Professional Scrum with Kanban
Professional Agile Leadership
Professional Scrum with User Experience
Kanban
Kanban System Design (KMP1)
Kanban Management Professional l (KMP2)
People Cert
PeopleCert SCRUM Master |
PeopleCert SCRUM Master II
PeopleCert DevOps Fundamentals
PeopleCert DevOps Leadership
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices
Certified LeSS for Executives: Principles, Organization, and
Change
Certified LeSS Basics: Short one-day Teaser to LeSS

PMI-ACP CSM
PMI is a renowned, reputed name in the
industry, very old institute (1969)
Scrum Alliance is comparatively new in the
industry (2001)
Agile has many flavors such as Scrum, Kanban,
Extreme programming, TDD, FDD, BDD, Lean
etc. This certification Not specific to one Agile
framework but covers all the important Agile
This certification is focused exclusively on Scrum
methodology.
This certification is not specific to one role but
generic in nature, useful to any Agile role
This certification is focused on just one role
Scrum Master. For different role you need
different certifications.
Openly available in Market, Prepare, book your
exam yourself and crack it.
Not openly available in the Market. Attending 2
days course is mandatory
This is an advance level certification This is a foundation level certification

What benefit will you get?
1. One Month Agile Comprehensive Program (30 Hours)
2. Real Life Examples
3. Live Zoom Classes
4. Lifetime Access to Recordings
5. One-year Access to Live Class Retakes
6. Exam Preparation Related Study Materials
7. Premium Content for Study (Soft Copy)
8. Exam Application Support
9. Personalized help before exam
10. 2000+ Mock Exam Questions with solution
11. WhatsApp Group Access for Doubt Clearing Support
12. Weekly follow up session for your success
13. 21 Contact Hour Certificate after completing the online course
14. Scrum Simulation (Role play activity)
15. CV Preparation / LinkedIn profile update Assistance
16. Interview Preparation
17. IT Project Blueprint (For non-IT background)
18. Knowledge of ALM Tools
19. Mock Interview Sessions
20. Guest Lecture
21. Lifetime Support 16

PMI-ACP Online Session Agenda
About PMI-ACP Exam
Examination Content Outline
PMI-ACP Handbook
Reference Books By PMI
Prerequisites No of Questions and Exam Time Exam Fee
• Secondary degree
• 21 contact hours of training in agile
practices
• 12 months of general project
experience within the last 5 years. A
current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy
this requirement but is not required
to apply for the PMI-ACP.
• 8 months of agile project
experience within the last 3 years
The certification exam has 120
multiple-choice questions, and you
have three hours to complete it.
Member: ₹25,010.00
Non-member: ₹28,454.00
Book exam directly through PMI’s
website

Timeline of the PMI–ACP Certification Process

aprasoonin@yahoo.com | +91 9891819681Domain II. Value-driven Delivery
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SESSION DOMAIN PPT
PERCENTAGE OF
ITEMS ON TEST
DOMAIN
TOTAL NO OF
QUESTIONS
Session – 1 Introduction to PMI-ACP 35
Session – 2 Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset 157 16% 19
Session – 3 Domain II. Value-driven Delivery 57 20% 24
Session – 4 Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement 58 17% 20
Session – 5 Domain IV. Team Performance 71 16% 19
Session – 6 Domain V. Adaptive Planning 101 12% 14
Session – 7 Domain VI. Problem Detection and Resolution 28 10% 12
Session – 8 Domain VII. Continuous Improvement
(Product, Process, People)
58 09% 11
565 100% 120
Part 1: PMI-ACP Syllabus

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Domain Tools and Techniques Knowledge and Skills
I. Agile Principles and
Mindset
Servant leadership Agile frameworks and
terminology Agile methods and
approaches
Agile values and principles
Leadership

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II. Value-Driven Delivery Agile tooling
Compliance
Continuous integration
Cumulative flow
Customer-valued prioritization
EVM for agile projects
Frequent verification and validation
Kanban board
Kano analysis
Minimal marketable feature (MMF)
Minimal viable product (MVP)
MoSCoW
Relative prioritization/ ranking
ROI/NPV/IRR
Task board diagrams
Testing, including exploratory and
usability.
WIP limits
Work in progress
Agile contracting
Agile project accounting principles
Incremental delivery
Managing with agile KPIs
Prioritization
Regulatory compliance

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III. Stakeholder Engagement Active listening
Agile modeling
Brainstorming
Chartering
Collaboration
Collaboration games
Conflict resolution
Definition of done
Emotional intelligence
Information radiator
Negotiation
Personas
Social media-based communication
Two-way communications
Workshops
Wireframes
Agile project chartering
Assessing and incorporating
community and stakeholder values
Communication management
Facilitation methods
Knowledge sharing/written
communication
Participatory decision models
(convergent, shared collaboration)
Stakeholder management

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IV. Team Performance Adaptive leadership
Burndown/burnup charts
Osmotic communication for
collocated and/or distributed
teams.
Team space
Velocity
Building Agile teams
Developmental mastery models
(Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu-Ha-Ri)
Global, cultural, and team
diversity Physical and virtual co-
location
Team motivation
Training, coaching, and mentoring

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V. Adaptive Planning Affinity estimating
Architectural spike
Backlog grooming/ refinement
Daily stand-ups
Ideal time
Iteration and release planning
Product roadmap
Progressive elaboration
Relative sizing/story points/T-shirt
sizing
Requirements reviews
Risk-based spike
Story maps
Timeboxing
User stories/backlog
Wideband Delphi/ planning poker
Agile discovery
Agile sizing and estimation
Value-based analysis and
decomposition

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VI. Problem Detection and
Resolution
Control limits
Cycle time
Defect rate
Lead time
Risk-adjusted backlog
Risk burndown graphs
Throughput/ productivity
Variance and trend analysis
Problem solving

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VII. Continuous
Improvement
Approved iterations
Feedback methods
Fishbone diagram analysis
Five Whys
Kaizen
Learning cycle
Agile hybrid models
Continuous improvement
PMIs Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct
Principles of systems thinking
(complex, adaptive, chaos)
Process analysis
Self-assessment tools and
techniques

Session No. Books (Chapter end questions/ Full Mock) Publication Number of
questions
Session – 9 PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths RMC 140
Session – 10 PMI-ACP Exam by Andy Crowe (2 Set Mock) Velociteach 200
Session – 11 Headfirst Agile by Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene (1 Set Mock) O’Reilly 271
Session – 12 PMI-ACP Study Guide by Ashley Hunt Sybex 240
Session – 13 PMI-ACP Exam Prep Questions by Tim Bagnall and Christopher Scordo SSI Logic 945
Session – 14 PMI-ACP Agile Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide by Joseph
Phillips
McGraw-Hill 140
Session – 15 ACP Agile Certified Practitioner Exam by Klaus Nielsen (2 Set Mock) McGraw-Hill 200
Total 2036
Part 2: Doubt clearance of Practice questions

Part 3: Additional Sessions
Session – 16 Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master Scenario based Interview questions discussion
Session – 17 ALM / Tools for Scrum Master - Jira, Confluence, Miro, and Easy Retro etc.
Session – 18 CV Preparation / LinkedIn update / Job Hunting
Session – 19 Scrum Simulation (Role Play activities)
Session – 20 Mock Interviews Session – Observe / Participate / Correct / Improve

Please share your expectation from this training so I can plan it
accordingly.

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekprasoon/
Contact Me – aprasoonin@yahoo.com
+91 9891819681

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