Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

Course Introduction

This course is based on PMI’s Agile Practice Guide ® The PMI Registered Education Provider logo
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PMI and PMI-ACP are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute Inc. Project Management Institute, Inc.
 Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Identify the benefits of PMI-ACP certification

Recognize the certification eligibility, timeline, audit process,

fees, and the renewal process

Discover the agenda and objectives of our course

Review a list of recommended references for the PMI-ACP

certification
 About PMI-ACP® Certification

A professional certification for agile practitioners

PMI aligns its processes with the

The PMI-ACP examination
best practices of certification
is a vital part of the
industry
activities that lead to the
such as those found in the
professional certification.
Standards for Educational and
Psychological Testing.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo

is a registered mark of the
PMI and PMI-ACP are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute Inc. Project Management Institute, Inc.
 Benefits of PMI-ACP Certification

Demonstrates agile Demonstrates professionalism

knowledge and commitment and proficiency in agile principles
and practices

Proves active participation in Increases your professional versatility in

recognized project management agile project management tools,
practices techniques, and best practices

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo

is a registered mark of the
PMI and PMI-ACP are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute Inc. Project Management Institute, Inc.
 Eligibility Requirements

General project Agile project Training in agile

Educational background
experience experience practices

• Secondary degree • 2,000 hours or 12 • 1,500 hours or eight • 21 contact hours

• High school diploma months on project months on agile • Hours must be
• Associate degree (or teams project teams earned in agile
global equivalent) • Experience from last • Experience from last practices
five years three years
• 12 months may or • Agile methodologies
may not have been may include scrum,
extreme
spent on agile programming,
projects DSDM, feature-
driven development,
and crystal
 Certification Timeline

Application
Application
Application review for Schedule
payment
submission completeness examination
process
(10 days)

Audit process Application reject

• The application for the PMI-ACP® exam is submitted online at www.pmi.org

• You have 90 days to complete the application before it closes automatically
• The application requires details such as contact information, education, domain
experience, and domain education
 Certification Audit Process

If the application is selected for audit:

• You have 90 days to send the audit materials
• PMI takes 5–7 days to process the audit materials

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

• Receive an email with • Have one of the • Get the Experience • Schedule the
instructions to references review Verification form certification process
complete the audit your application and signed by one of the with enough time for
• Gather evidence and complete the references the audit process
submit it to PMI Experience • Contact one of the
Verification form references before
(PDF version of the submitting the
project experience) application
• Get a physical copy of
the evidence
 Certification Fees

The certification fee is based on how you take the test and
whether you are a PMI member.

Exam Type PMI Member Status Fees (US Dollars)

Computer-Based Testing
Yes 435
(CBT)
Computer-Based Testing
No 495
(CBT)
Paper-Based Testing (PBT) Yes 385
Paper-Based Testing (PBT) No 445
Reexamination CBT Yes 335
Reexamination CBT No 395
Reexamination PBT Yes 285
Reexamination PBT No 345

Source: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/agile-acp
 Certification Maintenance and Renewal

PMI-ACP certification needs a renewal every three years

The renewal process includes accumulating 30 professional

development units (PDUs) during the three-year validity period

If the renewal is skipped, the certification is suspended for one year

If it is not renewed, the certification expires and the certified status

cannot be claimed
 Certification Maintenance and Renewal

Exam type PMI member status Fees (US Dollars)

Continuing certification requirements (CCR)

Yes 60
certification renewal

Continuing certification requirements (CCR)

No 150
certification renewal
 Certification Examination

Exam Component Specifications

Allotted exam time 3 hours

Total number of questions 120

Total number of scored questions 100

Total number of pre-test questions 20

• PMI does not identify the scored and pre-test questions

• There is no penalty for wrong answers
 Examination Content

PMI-ACP examination

100 scored questions 20 unscored questions

Note: The unscored questions are not explicitly identified but are randomly distributed
 Examination Content

Percentage in the
Domain
examination

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,
9%
people)
 About the Course

360-degree approach to
learning agile 01
Two sets of knowledge
03 checks for each domain

Short consumable 02
videos
Two case studies
04 Two projects (Jira Guidelines)
Ebooks
Five course-end assessments
 Course Agenda

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

Note: Each domain is divided into two parts

 Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe agile principles and mindset
• Explain how value-driven delivery is accomplished in agile projects
• Describe the best practices involved in stakeholder engagement
• Discuss the approaches to improve team performance
• Describe the concepts under adaptive planning
• Discuss various problem detection and resolution techniques
• Explain the principles of continuous improvement
 The Completion Criteria for the Course

Complete 85% of the

OSL course 01
Score a minimum of 60% in
03 one course-end assessment

Attend all the LVC classes 02

in a batch
Submit at least one
04 course-end project
 Recommended References

• PMI-ACP Certification Handbook: • Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals Dan Rawsthorne

http://www.pmi.org/Certification/~/media/PDF/Certific with Doug Shimp
ations/PMI-ACP_Handbook.ashx
• Agile Estimating and Planning: Mike Cohn
• PMI-ACP Exam Content Outline: https://www.pmi.org/-
/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/certifications/agile • Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile,
-certified-exam-outline.pdf Extreme: Robert K.Wysocki
• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great: • User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development:
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber Mike Cohn
• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game – • Kanban in Action: Marcus Hammarberg, Joakim Sunden
2nd Edition: Alistair Cockburn • Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your
• The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility: Technology Business: David J.Anderson
Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick • Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise
• Coaching Agile Teams: Lyssa Adkins Agility: Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott
• Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative • Agile Practice Guide: Project Management Institute
Products: Jim Highsmith
Let’s Begin!