Introduction to the PMI Agile Certification: PMI-ACP SM PMI-NIC Agile Project Management Workshop

1. Introduction to the PMI Agile Certification: PMI-ACPSMPMI-NIC Agile Project Management Workshop Victor Carter-Bey, PMI Manager of Certification 2 December 2011

2. PMI-ACPSM Overview • Benefits of Certification • PMI’s History with Agile • Overview of PMI-ACPSM • Value Proposition • Eligibility Requirements • Exam Structure- what’s on the exam? • Market Reaction 4

3. PMI in Summary • Global Non-Profit Professional Association • More than 550,000 members and credential holders, 260 chapters, 182 countries • 10-15% annual growth for 15 years • Global Standards • 13 global standards • +3 million PMBOK® Guide in circulation • Credentials • 6 major credentials, used worldwide ( PMP® | CAPM® | PgMP® | PMI-RMP® | PMI-SP® | PMI-ACPSM) • Professional and Market Research • Academic Accreditation Program • Advocate for Project Management excellence to • Business, government, NGOs • C-level executives: CEO, COO, CHR, CFO • Local and regional audiences: chapter outreach

4. Benefits of Certification 27

5. Why Certification? • Need for Skilled Project Managers • Skilled practitioners are leaving the workforce • Baby Boomers are leaving workforce at same time • Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) identifies this trend as having a major strategic impact for 64% of organizations studied • Despite high unemployment, over 3 million jobs will go unfilled this year in U.S. alone due to talent gap • Example: Siemens only filled 5 out of 6 open positions in 2010 SHRM: Workplace Visions (Issue 5, 2010) SHRM: Global Talent Mismatch (June 2011)

6. Why Certification? • Need for Skilled Project Managers • Companies are trying to recruit people with more specialized knowledge • 65% of HR professionals say their companies are increasing investment in recruiting and retaining highly specialized knowledge workers SHRM 2015 Scenarios for the Future of Human Resource Management

7. Why Certification? • Credentialed project managers are correlated with project performance • 80% of high-performing projects use a credential project manager PricewaterhouseCoopers Insights and Trends: Current Programme and Project Management Practices (2007)

8. Why Certification? • Credentialed project managers are correlated with project performance • Higher maturity organizations have higher certification rates PricewaterhouseCoopers Insights and Trends: Current Programme and Project Management Practices (2007)

9. Why Certification? • Higher maturity organizations have better project performance PMI Pulse of the Profession Study, 2010

10. PMI’s History with Agile 27

11. PMI’s Envisioned Goal • Worldwide, organizations • will embrace, value and • utilize project management, • and attribute their success to it.

12. Historical Perspective: PMI & Agile • Congress presentations since 2004 • Agile Community of Practice established 2009 • PMBOK® Guide 3rd & 4th edition references to iterative development • Agile reference sources in PMI Marketplace 17

13. Agile Certification Investigation Process • Leveraged research, focus groups, and formulated steering committee of Agile thought leaders • Over one year to determine market interest and need (e.g. training, certification, standards) • Focus: What role, if any, should PMI play in Agile? 21

14. Agile Steering Committee • Diverse, cross-methodological leadership • Representing Scrum, DSDM, Crystal, XP, Kanban, Lean • Diverse, Agile certification experience • Scrum Alliance, APMG, APLN, IC Agile • Founding member/co-author of Agile Manifesto • Founder of Agile CoP • Agile book authors 22

15. Research with Hiring Managers 23

16. Hiring Managers Understanding the differences between Agile project management vs. traditional project management/waterfall methods… 25

17. Usefulness of Agile to the organization 70% of the respondents said Agile project management is valuable to their organization 26

18. Research with Practitioners 27

19. Value How valuable is Agile project management in managing your projects? 29

20. How familiar are you with Agile project management? 30

21. Why did PMI Launch the PMI-ACPSM ? • PMI members and credential holders have an expectation that PMI will provide cutting edge assessment opportunities • Project professionals who utilize traditional techniques are seeing the use of Agile techniques increase in both their own and other industries • Research suggests that organizations that use traditional project management practices are seeing increased value from a cost and efficiency perspective with Agile techniques 21

22. PMI-ACPSM: Value Proposition/ Overview Eligibility Requirements Content Outline Market Reaction 23

23. The Value of PMI-ACPSM • For practitioners, PMI-ACPSMhelps: • Demonstrate a level of professionalism in Agile principles, practices, tools and techniques • Increase professional versatility in project management • For organizations, PMI-ACPSMdemonstrates a practitioner’s: • Knowledge of Agile practices, which shows the practitioner has greater breadth and depth as a PM 32

24. PMI-ACPSM – Pilot Timing 37

25. PMI-ACPSM – Eligibility Requirements 34

26. Some Major Questions • What’s the process? • Like other certifications • Application  Payment  Exam • Training can be taken between application exam • How will you get the exam? • Via Prometric Testing Centers • IT channel (same as CAPM®) • Cost? • $435: Member/ $495 Non-member 35

27. Product Definition Product is: • NOT a methodology-specific certification (e.g., Scrum, XP, DSDM, or Lean specific) • NOT an Agile Project Manager credential (role-based credential) • NOT exclusively for ICT 33

28. What’s on the Exam? 23

29. Exam Content Outline (100 scored items; 20 un-scored [pre test]) • Agile Tools and Techniques 50% • Agile knowledge and skills 50% 36

30. Agile Tools and Techniques • Communications • Planning, monitoring and adapting • Agile estimation • Agile analysis and design • Product quality • Soft skills negotiation • Value-based prioritization • Risk Management • Metrics • Value Stream Analysis 36

31. Agile Knowledge and Skills • This portion of the exam includes 43 knowledge and skill areas • The knowledge and skills are organized into the following 3 levels of importance: 36

32. Agile Knowledge and Skills Each level includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: • Level 1 • Agile Manifesto values and principles, incremental delivery and time/budget/cost estimation • Level 2 • Co-location/distributed teams, PMI’s Code of Ethics, Agile frameworks and terminology • Level 3 • Agile contracting methods, compliance, innovation games 36

33. Market Reaction and Update 23

34. Market Reaction • Since February, 7,000+ people have signed up to receive further information about the PMI-ACPSMpilot • 4,000+ individuals have responded to PMI’s “Agile knowledge” quiz • 150,000+ individuals have visited PMI’s www.PMI.org/Agile launch page • Since 23 May, 6,000+ applicants have opened a PMI-ACP application • 1200+ individuals have submitted a PMI-ACPSM application to participate in the pilot • * Numbers as of October 2011

35. PMI-ACPSM Update • Reaction from organizations has been robust • Over a dozen large organizations requested 1-on-1 presentations on the certification • Mature organizations find good ‘fit’ with the methodology neutral approach of certification and internal methodologies • Demand for Agile driven by clients requesting their projects be managed using Agile • H.R. 2647 Section 804 also driving demand • Mandates some DoD IT acquisitions be designed and executed using Agile

36. PMI-ACPSM Update • REP Community has grown from this product • 13 new REPs who are existing training organizations in the Agile space have become REPs • Additional REP applications in progress from like organizations

37. PMI-ACPSM Update • Reaction to the exam – largely positive • Sally Elatta, Agile Transformation Coach • First, my overall feedback is that the exam was pretty good, especially being this is the pilot and there will be updates and improvements based on our Agile value of inspecting and adapting • Bryan Campbell, Senior Program Manager • In general, I found the actual exam questions well written and a good overview of agile knowledge. • Deniz Iren, Project Management Consultant • Exam is well prepared. (Well done PMI Agile COP).

38. Making project management indispensable for business results.®Thank you victor.carter-bey@pmi.org rory.mccorkle@pmi.org (Agile Business Owner) customercare@pmi.org