360PMO
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)速 Chapter 1: PMI- ACP速 Overview
Learning objectives At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to: • Acquire knowledge of PMI® • List the library of PMI® global standards • List the credential offered by PMI® • Describe PMI-ACP® eligibility criteria, timeline and certification process • Identify the continue certification requirement (CCR) • Review exam information , content and reference material suggested by PMI®
360PMO
About PMI® •
Professional Management Institute (PMI) o o o
•
Project Management Program Management Portfolio Management
These strategic competencies enable organizations to deliver expected benefits and value
World Largest Association o o o o
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
Source: www.pmi.org/About-Us.aspx, accessed on April 18, 2013
360PMO
Library of PMI速 global standards
Foundation Standards
Practice Standards &Frameworks
Source: www.pmi.org/PMBOK-Guide-and-Standards/Standards-Library-of-PMI-Global-Standards.aspx, accessed on April 18 2013
Standards Extensions
360PMO
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
Source: www.pmi.org/PMBOK-Guide-and-Standards/Standards-Library-of-PMI-Global-Standards.aspx, accessed on April 20, 2013
360PMO
Practice standards & framework Practice Standard for Project Risk Management Practice Standard for Earned Value Management—Second Edition
Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management
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
Source: www.pmi.org/PMBOK-Guide-and-Standards/Standards-Library-of-PMI-Global-Standards.aspx, accessed on April 20, 2013
360PMO
Standard extensions
Standards Extensions
Construction Extension to the PMBOK® Guide—Third Edition
Government Extension to the PMBOK® Guide—Third Edition
Source: www.pmi.org/PMBOK-Guide-and-Standards/Standards-Library-of-PMI-Global-Standards.aspx, accessed on April 20, 2013
360PMO
PMI® globally recognized credentials • • • • • • •
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Project Management Professional (PMP)® Program Management Professional (PgMP)® PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® OPM3® Professional Certification
Source: www.pmi.org/Certification.aspx accessed on April 20, 2013
360PMO
Forrester wave
35%
45%
11%
35% Agile “closely reflects their current development practices�
Increased to 46% -When definition of Agile included Rational, Unified Process or Spiral
11% - Scrum, the favoured form of Agile Project Management
Survey Size: 1300 IT Professionals
360PMO
PMI-ACP® certification overview • • • •
Pilot Exam began in Oct, 2011 and ended in Nov 30, 2011 PMI-ACP® Official Testing began in January 31, 2012 2,858 PMI-ACP® Certified Professionals as of April 30, 2013 Certification is designed to: o o o o
Demonstrate to employers the practitioner’s level of professionalism in Agile practices of project management, Increase the practitioner’s versatility in project management tools and techniques, Show that the practitioner has the capacity to lead basic Agile project teams, and Provide a framework for Agile training and professional development initiatives. 360PMO
PMI fact file Certification
Active Certified Professionals
CAPM® Certified Associate in Project Management
24,196
PMP® Project Management Professional
593,074
PgMP® Program Management Professional
985
PMI-RMP® PMI Risk Management Professional
2,507
PMI-SP® PMI Scheduling Professional
1,036
PMI-ACP® PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
4,366
Other Statistics Total Members
437,576
Total Chartered and Potential Chapters in 84 Countries
280
Communities of Practices (CoP)
33
Total Copies of all editions (including PMI Published translations) of the PMBOK Guide in circulation
4,367,716
Source: PMI Today Jan 2014 edition, figure as of 30 November 2013
360PMO
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
•
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
•
21 contact hours
•
Hours must be earned in agile practices
Examination
•
Tests knowledge of agile fundamentals
Fees (CBT)
•
$435 for members and $495 for non-members
Agile Project Experience
Training in Agile Practices
Source: www.pmi.org/en/Certification/New-PMI-Agile-Certification.aspx, accessed on April 20, 2013
360PMO
Certification process 90 Days
Step1 10 Days
Complete Application Step2
~
Initial Completeness Review Step3
90 Days to Submit Material PMI takes 5-7 days to review
Pay Fees
Step4
1 year from the date of the application accepted. You can take the exam up to 3 times during this 1 year.
1 Year
Audit (if selected)
Step5
Schedule, & Take the Exam
"PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)速Handbook", accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.pmi.org/~/media/PDF/Certifications/PMI-ACP_Handbook.ashx
360PMO
Continue Certification Requirement (CCR) 1 Year Suspension If no PDUs
Exam
Year 1
Year 2
30 PDUs
Year 3
1 Year
Suspend
"PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)速 Handbook", accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.pmi.org/~/media/PDF/Certifications/PMI-ACP_Handbook.ashx
Expire
360PMO
Exam information Number of Scored Questions
100
Number of Pretest (Un-scored) Questions
20
Total Examination Questions
120
Allotted Examination Time
3 hours
"PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)速: Examination Content Outline", accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.pmi.org/en/Certification /~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/ PMI_Agile_Certification_Content_Outline.ashx2
360PMO
Exam content outline
Tools and Techniques 50%
• Communications
• Soft skills negotiation
• Planning, monitoring, and adapting
• Value-based prioritization
• Agile estimation
• Metrics
• Agile analysis and design • Product quality
Knowledge & Skills 50%
• Risk management • Value stream analysis
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
18 skills
12 skills
13 skills
33%
12%
5%
"PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)®: Examination Content Outline", accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.pmi.org/en/Certification /~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/ PMI_Agile_Certification_Content_Outline.ashx
360PMO
Tools and techniques (50% of exam) Communications
Information radiator, team space, agile tooling, osmotic communications for colocated 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
"PMI Agile Certified Practitioner(PMI-ACP)速: Examination Content Outline", accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.pmi.org/en/Certification /~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/ PMI_Agile_Certification_Content_Outline.ashx
360PMO
Knowledge & skills (50% of exam) Level 1 Skills
Level 2 Skills
Level 3 Skills
Active Listening
Agile framework and terminology
Agile contracting methods
Agile Manifesto value and principles
Building high-performance teams
Assess and incorporating community and stakeholder values
Business case development
Agile project accounting principles
Brainstorming techniques
Colocation (geographical proximity) / distributed teams
Building empowered teams
Continuous improvement process
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
Elements of a project charter for an Agile projects
Applying new Agile practices Compliance (organization)
Control limits for Agile projects
Facilitation methods
Failure modes and alternatives
Participatory decision models 9e.g. input-based, shared collaboration, command)
Globalization, culture, and team diversity
PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct Process analysis techniques Self assessment Value-based analysis
Innovation games Principles of system thinking (e.g. complex, adaptive, chaos) Regulatory compliance Variance and trend analysis
Time, budget, and cost estimation
Verifications in Agile methods and approaches
Value based decomposition and prioritization
Vendor management
360PMO
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)
360PMO
Reference material Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber ISBN #0977616649
Agile Estimating and Planning Mike Cohn ISBN #0131479415
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
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
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
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
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000-GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
PMI-ACP® Reference material (Cont.) Coaching Agile Teams Lyssa Adkins ISBN #0321637704
Agile Project Management with Scrum Ken Schwaber ISBN #073561993X
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
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
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
PMI-ACP® Reference material (Cont.) Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky ISBN #1933988258
"Reference Materials for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®" accessed April 20, 2013 http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx
360PMO
Lesson review • •
• • •
•
What are the eligibility criteria (experience and training) for PMIACP® exam? How many PDU’s are required every three years to maintain credentials? Name the author of the book "Agile Estimating and Planning " 50% of the exam is from Tools and Techniques. Name any 5 tools and technique listed in the exam content outline The PMI-ACP exam outline divides knowledge and skillsets into three levels. Name any two knowledge and skills from each skill level What are the five domains of PMI-ACP ?
360PMO
www.360PMO.com
360PMO