•  3 days of Intense Classroom Sessions with an Experienced Trainer
•  21 Contact Hours/PDUs with Certificate, satisfying a key prerequisite for the ACP® Exam
•  100% Money Back Guarantee
•  2 Complete Sets of ACP® Practice Tests – helps you to evaluate your preparation level
•  Learn through Discussion - in Classroom Training
•  Tips and Tricks on how to pass the ACP® Exam
•  Access to High Quality Online self learning Content, post Workshop
•  Approved Course Material by PMI
•  Post-workshop support through e-mail, telephone and webinars

What is Agile?

Agile is a philosophy that uses organizational models based on people, collaboration and shared values. The Agile Manifesto outlines the tenets of Agile philosophy. Agile uses rolling wave planning, iterative and incremental delivery, rapid and flexible response to change, and open communication between teams, stakeholders and customers. There are many agile methodologies that adhere to these tenets, such as Scrum, XP, Lean and Test-driven Development (TDD).

Here are definitions for some common terms associated with agile principles and practices:

What are some examples of agile principles and practices?

Agile principles and practices include:

• Early, measurable return on investment through defined, iterative delivery of product increments.
• High visibility of project progress allows early identification and esolution or monitoring of problems.
• Continuous involvement of the customer throughout the product evelopment cycle.
• Empowerment of the business owner to make decisions needed to meet goals.
• Adaptation to changing business needs, giving more influence over requirement changes.
• Reduced product and process waste.

What value do agile principles and practices bring to an organization?

Organizations who use agile principles and practices have documented the value they see from these techniques:

• Adaptive to changing business needs, giving the organization more influence over adding, changing, or removing requirements.
• Early and continuous customer feedback improves communication and empowers business owners who can receive and review critical information necessary to make decisions to steer the project throughout the development process.
• Early measurable return on investment.
• High visibility and influence over the project progress leading to early indications of problems.
• Incremental delivery rather than a single complete delivery at the end of the project. Reduces product and process waste.

How is the PMI-ACP^® different from the Project Management Professional(PMP)^®credential?

The PMI-ACP^® certification specifically validates a practitioner’sability to understand and apply agile principles and practices. The PMP^®credential recognizes demonstrated competence leading and directing project teams.

Why did PMI develop the PMI-ACP^® certification?

Agile is a topic of growing importance in project management. PMI market research shows that project management practitioners are embracing agile principles and practices for successfully managing projects. Additionally, the following points show the increasing demand for an agile certification:

• PMI members,credential holders, and individuals who embrace agile principles and practices are looking to PMI for certification, recognition, and educational opportunities.
• Many project professionals experienced in traditional techniques are seeing the demand for agile principles and practices in many industries and organizations. These practitioners are eager to add agile principles and practices to their project management skillset.
• Organizations that use project management to serve both internal and external clients are seeing value in agile principles and practices to deliver projects more quickly, with less waste and cost due to misunderstood or poorly defined requirements.

Do this Scrum Alliance course qualify for the education eligibility requirement of CSM certification?

Yes, Scrum Alliance courses qualify for the education eligibility requirements. Only hours of training in agile practices will meet the certification eligibility requirements. One hour of education equals one contact hour of education eligibility.

What is (PMI-ACP)^® certification?

PMI-ACP^® is a single certification that provides the brief details of umbrella of all Agile frameworks in one workshop, along with Agile project Management practices, including engineering / technical practices. This helps participants under the expectations from each of the other roles in addition to his/her role. The coverage is comprehensive.

Who can attend (PMI-ACP)^®training?

This 3-day training workshop is ideal for all agile aspirants such as PMO Leaders, Project Directors, Project Heads, Project Leads, Project Consultants, Project Analysts, Project Managers, Program Managers, Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts, QA Analysts, Project Stakeholders, Project Coordinators and all other professionals who are involved in projects. The most benefitted are the traditional Project Managers working with agile developers; and Project Managers looking for more successful ways to facilitate a project’s success.

PMI^® Agile Certification Practitioner Eligibility Requirements

What are the fees?

Once again, please refer to the PMI-ACP^® handbook: PMI-ACP^® Handbook for details.

The fee for PMI members is $435 and non-member fee is $495. PMI membership cost is $119 per year and there is a $10 joining fee.

What is the certification process?

The process is you complete the application online and upon review and confirmation; you will be able to pay the fees as above. Once the fee is paid your application may optionally be selected for audit. If it is, you follow the instructions to complete the audit and proceed to schedule the examination.

Exam format

• The examination consists of 120 multiple choice questions and each question has only one correct answer. There are no negative marks.
• Out of 20 questions, 100 questions are actually counted towards your final score.
• Upon completing the examination, you will be able to see your result immediately.

How do I prepare for this examination?

You should enroll yourself for Agile training, which in any case is one of the pre-requisites for the examination. The training should provide you with guidance about Agile methodologies and what to study for the examination.

In addition, you should go through the list of suggested references by PMI (see link:http://www.pmi.org/en/Certification/~/media/Files/PDF/Agile/PMI000-GainInsightsAIGLE418.ashx). If you are not a PMP or not otherwise familiar with the Project Management Body of Knowledge, you may want to read the PMBOK to familiarize yourself with general Project management concepts. You would also need to read the PMI code of ethics document.

You must also get sufficient practice of solving exam questions including few “full-length” examinations under simulated conditions.