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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® (Updated Nov 2024 version)

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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® (updated to the latest exam launched on 8 November 2024)
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Additional Information

Job family

Project

Roles

Project Manager, Program Manager, Portfolio Manager

Competence Level

Foundation

Workshop Category

Agile Project Management

Options

Training only, Training, membership and exam bundle, PMI® Membership + ACP® exam bundle

Workshop Description

The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification is a distinguished credential designed to recognize your agile expertise through the industry’s only agnostic, experience-based, ISO-accredited exam. This workshop will keep you updated on the latest PMI-ACP training course content and equip you with essential knowledge and skills to excel in agile project management.

This workshop provides training on the domain and tasks outlined in the latest PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Exam Content Outline (Nov 2024 version).

Why earn PMI-ACP® certification?

Earning your PMI-ACP® certification is the perfect way to demonstrate your knowledge of and commitment to this rapidly growing approach to project management. It showcases your agile training, experience, and a depth of knowledge on agile practices, tools and techniques. Plus, it’s the only certification that validates expertise in multiple agile approaches.

This certificate is for those who wants to increase their knowledge base and skills in Agile practices. PMI-ACP® Training in will provide you in-depth knowledge on different Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming etc. It is a ‘MUST’ for those who want to learn and experience the skillsets that are extremely important if he/she wants to deliver the project completely in Agile way. 

Who should attend?

This certification is ideal for agile practitioners, including product owners, scrum masters, and agile project managers, who are looking to deepen their agile skillset, broaden their knowledge across various agile frameworks and methodologies, and enhance their career prospects with a globally recognized certification.

Topics Covered

  • Domain 1: Mindset
    • Experiment Early
    • Embrace Agile Mindset
    • Promote Collaborative Team Environment
    • Build Transparency
    • Foster Psychological Safety
    • Shorten Feedback Loops
    • Embrace Change
  • Domain 2: Leadership
    • Empower Teams
    • Facilitate Problem Resolution
    • Promote Knowledge Sharing
    • Promote agile mindset principles and practices
    • Promote shared vision and purpose
    • Facilitate conflict management
  • Domain 3: Product
    • Refine product backlog
    • Manage increments
    • Visualize work
    • Manage value delivery
  • Domain 4: Delivery
    • Seek early feedback
    • Manage agile metrics
    • Manage impediments and risk
    • Recognize and eliminate waste
    • Perform continuous improvements
    • Actively engage customers
    • Optimize flow

Tools and Techniques Covered

  • Agile Analysis and Design
    • product roadmap, user stories/backlog, story maps
    • progressive elaboration wireframes
    • chartering
    • personas, modeling, workshops
    • learning cycle plan, collaboration games
  • Agile Estimation
    • relative sizing/story points/T-shirt sizing wide band Delphi/planning poker
    • affinity estimating
    • ideal time
  • Communications
    • information radiator team space agile tooling
    • osmotic communications for co-located and/or distributed teams, two-way communications (trustworthy, conversation driven), social media–based communication, active listening
    • brainstorming feedback methods
  • Metrics
    • velocity/throughput/productivity cycle time /lead time
    • EVM for agile projects defect rate
    • approved iterations
    • work in progress
  • Planning, Monitoring, and Adapting
    • reviews, Kanban board, task board timeboxing 
    • iteration and release planning variance and trend analysis WIP limits
    • daily synchronization meetings
    • burn down/up charts cumulative flow diagrams backlog grooming/refinement, product-feedback loop.
  • Process Improvement
    • Kaizen, the Five WHYs, retrospectives, intraspectives, process tailoring/hybrid models, value stream mapping
    • control limits, pre-mortem (rule setting, failure analysis)
    • fishbone diagram analysis
  • Product Quality
    • frequent verification and validation, definition of done, continuous integration
    • testing, including exploratory and usability
  • Risk Management
    • risk adjusted backlog, risk burn down graphs, risk-based spike, architectural spike
  • Value-Based Prioritization
    • ROI/NPV/IRR, compliance, customer valued prioritization,
      requirements reviews
    • minimal viable product (MVP), minimal marketable feature (MMF)
    • relative prioritization/ranking
    • MoSCoW, Kano analysis.

PMI-ACP® certification eligibility requirements

To be eligible for the PMI-ACP® certification, you must meet certain educational and professional experience requirements. 

  • Secondary degree (high school diploma, GED, associate’s degree or global equivalent) 
  • 28 contact hours of training in agile practices, frameworks, methodologies (21 hours will be accepted until 31 March 2025)
  • Professional Agile Experience:
    • 2 years of agile experience in past 5 years* OR
    • 1 year agile experience and degree from Global Accreditation Center (GAC) program OR
    • 1 year agile experience and active 3rd party agile certification (current and earned more than 1 year ago)** OR
    • Active PMP® Certification.

*Current PMI Certification holder’s (e.g. PMP® or PgMP®) agile and hybrid experience will count towards experience requirements (experience must be within the past five years)
** Current agile certification that demonstrates knowledge of Agile approaches and principles

Examination Information

The PMI-ACP examination is comprised of 120 multiple-choice items, multiple response, drag-and-drop-style items, and exhibits. Of the 120 questions, 20 are considered pretest questions. Pretest questions do not affect the score and are used in examinations as an effective and legitimate way to test the validity of future examination questions. All questions are placed randomly throughout the examination.

  • No of scored questions: 100
  • No. of Pretest (Unscored) Questions: 20
  • Total Examination Questions: 120
  • Alloted Exam Time: 3 hours.

For the PMI-ACP exam, there is a 10-minute break in the exam. The break will appear after completion of questions 1–60 and after you have reviewed all your answers. Please note, once you review your responses and start your break, you will not be able to return to the questions from the previous exam section.
The examination is preceded by a tutorial and followed by a survey, both of which are optional, and take 5 to 15 minutes to complete. The time used to complete the tutorial and survey is not included in the examination time of 3 hours.

Agilizing Limited is a PMI® Authorized Training Partner (ATP)

This designation is given exclusively to training organisations who have been thoroughly audited and examined by PMI to guarantee the quality of their test preparation meets the highest standards.

Authorised Training Partners (ATP) are specifically picked by PMI to provide their exclusive content to prospective certification holders. They can offer their students with PMI-licensed materials that are not accessible to the public or provided by non-ATP trainers.

Agilizing has persisted in pledging excellence and building self-assured, highly qualified project managers. With our in-depth PMP® courses, we follow PMI standards to guarantee content quality and consistency. We guarantee a high standard of quality that is consistent throughout our PMI courses when we state that our instructors follow PMI’s ATP criteria. Our in-depth expertise of project management and our eagerness to share it with aspiring PMs earned us this ATP accreditation.

Agilizing Limited is a member of the PMI ATP Program. PMI does not specifically endorse, approve, or warrant ATP’s products, courses, publications, or services.

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