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PMI-ACP® Agile

Certified Practitioner

Saket BansaliZenBridge Consultancy Private Ltd.

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Agenda

PMI-ACP®

Eligibility Requirements

Investment

Exam Details

iZenBridge's PMI-ACP ® Approach

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PMI-ACP®

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PMI-ACP

• Recognizes knowledge of agile principles , practices and tools and techniques across agile methodologies.

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Who should do?

• Practitioners who are seeking to:• Demonstration of Practitioner's level of professionalism in

Agile Practice• Demonstrate to employers their level of professionalism in

agile practices, tools and techniques• Increase their professional versatility in agile techniques• Hold a certification that is more credible than existing

entry-level, training or exam-only based offeringsSource – PMI.Org

• Target Audience : Project Managers / Agile Managers/ Scrum Masters / Agile Developers / Agile Team Members/ Lean Managers / PMO Members

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PMI-ACP Vs CSM

PMI – ACP CSM

All Roles Scrum Master

Experience , Training and Exam (Prometric)

Training and Exam (Home)

Requires Time Investment Two Days Training + Exam

Covers Scrum , Lean , XP and Agile governing principles

Scrum

Good to demonstrate proficiency in agile approach

Good starting point , followed by CSP

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Q & A

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Eligibility Requirements

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Eligibility Requirements

• General Project Management Experience • 2,000 Hours in last 5 years

• Agile Project Management Experience• 1500 Hours in last 3 years

• Agile Project Management Education• 21 Contact Hours (not only PDUs)

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Agile Experience

• Value - Driven Delivery

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Boosting Team Performance

• Adaptive Planning

• Problem Detection and Resolution

• Continuous Improvement

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Q & A

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Investment

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Monetory Investement

• Non Negotiable Cost

• 435 $ PMI-Members

• 495 $ Non Members

• Negotiable Cost

• 21 Contact Hour Training

• Books

• Online Support

• Retake : 335 $

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Time Investement

• 3 to 6 Weeks• 21 Contact Hours

• PMI ACP Application Process : 10 Days

• Exam

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Exam Details

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Exam

• 120 questions, 20 pretest questions

• Passing scored not published

• Duration : 3 Hours

• Questions Referred to the current agile reference list

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Exam

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Tools and Techniques

Priority Item

1 Communications

2 Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting

3 Agile Estimation

4 Agile Analysis and Design

5 Product Quality

6 Soft Skills Negotiation

7 Value-Based Prioritization

8 Risk Management

9 Metrics

10 Value Stream Analysis

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Knowledge and Skills

Level 2: 12% = 15 questions

• Agile frameworks and terminology• Building high-performance teams• Business case development• Colocation (geographic proximity/distributed

teams)• Continuous improvement processes• Elements of a project charter for an Agile project• Facilitation methods• Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based.

Shared collaboration, command)• PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct• Process analysis techniques• Self assessment• Value-based analysis

Level 3: 5% = 6 questions

• Agile contracting methods• Agile project accounting principles• Applying new Agile practices• Compliance (organization)• Control limits for Agile projects• Failure modes and alternatives• Globalization, culture, and team

diversity• Innovation games• Principles of systems thinking (e.g.

complex adaptive, chaos)• Regulatory compliance• Variance and trend analysis• Variations in Agile methods and

approaches• Vendor management

Level 1: 33% = 40 questions

• Active listening• Agile Manifesto value and principles• Assessing and incorporating

community and stakeholder values• Brainstorming techniques• Building empowered teams• Coaching and mentoring within teams• Communications management• Feedback techniques for product (e.g.

prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, 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• Time, budget, and cost estimation• Value-based decomposition and

prioritization

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Q & A

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iZenBridge's PMI-ACP ® Approach

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iZenBridge Way…

• Our training program is designed by taking reference from all 11 Books

• Based in exam content outline we prioritize the reading material

• 21 Contact Hours Just starts the Journey

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Saket Bansal

Saket.Bansal@iZenBridge.com

iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt. Limited

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