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Project Management Institute, United Kingdom PMI UK Agile CoP November 2013 Event Shell, London 1 Evening Agenda Introductions from Shell and Rob Moores (Chair PMI UK Agile CoP) What is the PMI-ACP and why should I care?


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Project Management Institute, United Kingdom

PMI UK Agile CoP – November 2013 Event

Shell, London

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Evening Agenda

  • Introductions from Shell and Rob Moores (Chair PMI UK Agile CoP)
  • What is the PMI-ACP and why should I care?

– Joseph Flahiff

  • Introduction to the PMI UK Agile Community of Practice

– Bob Cowl and Sergey Pivovarov

  • Extended Q&A session – ‘The Panel’

– Joseph, Siamak Shams, Ray Mead, Sergey Pivovarov, Bob Cowl

  • Drinks and Networking

#PMIUKAgileCoP

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Joseph Flahiff

President & CEO

  • Co-Lead PMI-ACP Content Support
  • PMP, CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP
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Agenda

  • Why another Cert?
  • Who is it for?
  • Compare to CSM & CSP
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A little history

  • 2010 survey 12%
  • 2011 survey 27%
  • Steering committee-guided the content

– Ahmed Sidky Alistair Cockburn – Dennis Stevens Jesse Fewell – Jim Cundiff Michele Sliger – Mike Cottmeyer Mike Griffiths

  • 70+ Authors and reviewers wrote, edited, and reviewed the

exam questions

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Who would Want the PMI-ACP

  • Project Managers, Testers, Developers, Resource

managers, just about anyone.

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How does it Compare?

  • Certified Scrum Master - CSM
  • Certified Scrum Professional – CSP

PMI PMI -

  • ACP

ACP

General Agile Domain

Including: Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, DSDM,

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Purpose

ScrumMaster Scrum Practitioner

A CSM Course is Only the First Step. Becoming agile is a lifelong journey. Incorporating Scrum principles and practices into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

The intent behind the CSP certification program is to offer a clearly defined and well-respected credential in the Agile community, recognized as the primary credential for Scrum Professionals and sought by the employers who hire them.

PMI-ACP

Demonstrate to employers your level of professionalism in Agile practices of project management. Increase your professional versatility. Hold a certification that is more credible than existing entry-level, training or exam-only based offerings

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Growth

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Is the ACP Right for me?

ACP Scrum Certs

  • Enterprise
  • rganizations
  • Pockets of agile
  • Silos of technology
  • Multiple forms of agile
  • Career: 2-4 yrs

– Org not completely transformed – Don’t know next move

  • Org only uses Scrum
  • You will only use Scrum
  • Org supports scrum
  • Career: 2-4 yrs

– Committed to Scrum – Org Committed to transformation

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Qualifying to take the exam

Traditional project 2000 hours Agile 1500 hours Overlapping hours Agile 1500 hours

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CSM CSP PMI-ACP

CSM classes typically between $1000 – 2000. There is no additional cost for the exam. You can not take the exam without taking the class. Permanent Current CSM, CSPO , CSD $300 Reg fee Requires membership in Scrum Alliance: $100 / 2 years 2 yrs. PDUs TBD Classes to get 21 PDUs: 0- $2500+ Member Computer: $335 Non-Member computer: $435 Member paper: $270 Non-Member paper: $370 3 yrs 60 PDUs in AGILE

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Exam Content & Results

  • 50% Agile Tools & Techniques
  • 50% Agile Knowledge & Skills

– Level 1 33% – Level 2 12% – Level 3 5%

  • Exam Results

– Proficient – Above Average level of knowledge – Moderately Proficient – At the average – Below Proficient – Below average

  • Exam pass percentage is NOT publicized
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The PMI-ACP

SM Exam

  • Questions 120

– 100 Scored – 20 Pretest (unscored)

  • Time

– 3 hours – No breaks – No materials

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Recommended Reading

  • Agile Retrospectives: Making Good

Teams Great

– Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber ISBN #0977616649

  • Agile Software Development: The

Cooperative Game – 2nd Edition

– Alistair Cockburn ISBN #0321482751

  • The Software Project Manager’s

Bridge to Agility

– Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick ISBN #0321502752

  • Agile Project Management: Creating

Innovative Products – 2nd Edition

  • Jim Highsmith ISBN #0321658396
  • Coaching Agile Teams

– Lyssa Adkins ISBN #0321637704

  • Agile Estimating and Planning

– Mike Cohn ISBN #0131479415

  • The Art of Agile Development

– James Shore ISBN #0596527675

  • User Stories Applied: For Agile Software

Development

– Mike Cohn ISBN #0321205685

  • Agile Project Management with Scrum

– Ken Schwaber ISBN #073561993X

  • Lean-Agile Software Development:

Achieving Enterprise Agility

– Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, James R. Trott ISBN #0321532899

  • Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world

– Greg Smith, Ahmed Sidky ISBN #1933988258

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Project Management Institute, United Kingdom

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

Bob Cowl PMP Project Manager and Scrum Master EDFT Sergey Pivovarov PMP Delivery Manager BP 21/11/2013

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Drivers for an Agile Community Of Practice

  • Very significant increase in agile over recent years
  • Mainly driven by:-

– time to market – alignment to the business – increased flexibility to meet business needs – growing reputation for successful delivery

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

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Drivers for an Agile Community Of Practice

  • Project Managers including PMI members utilising Agile already or

looking to transition into Agile environments

  • Many members looking to the PMI as their professional body to provide

a central community

  • Desire to share experiences, seek knowledge and contribute to best

practice

  • Provide input to the global community, to PMBOK and PMI ACP

development

  • Use the PMI, it’s network and infrastructure to support regular

meetings, attract speakers and provide a forum for discussions

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

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Drivers for an Agile Community Of Practice

  • Lots of Challenges

– More adoption of Agile across enterprise environments, increase of methodologies to assist – Challenges to take team centered approach across an enterprise – Corporate visibility requires some consistency of approach – Where does the PMO fit in in the agile world? – Lots of others!!

  • Are you interested in participating, the community is your community if

there is interest

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

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So, Agile…do you have an opinion? Join the party!

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

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What next?

  • Survey

– What problems are you facing? – Areas of interest – Experience with Agile implementations

  • Events

– Topics for debate – Success stories

  • PMI UK Agile CoP Committee

– Let us know if you’d like to be involved

  • Other feedback

– Twitter, email, survey, LinkedIn group

Why an Agile Community of Practice?

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Project Management Institute, United Kingdom

Q&A Session

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PMI – UK Chapter

  • How to join