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PMI-ACP® Agile
Certified Practitioner
Saket Bansal
iZenBridge 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 offerings
Source – 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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