Steps to Becoming an Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®)

Turlon & Associates (www.turlon.com) next ACP® Preparation Course is being held in Dublin, Ireland on 5^th to 6^th September 2016. Our course outline can be viewed here. You can register for the course here 

Step 1: - Complete the Exam Application. All information and content in on http://www.pmi.org/Certification/New-PMI-Agile-Certification.aspx. The requirements are:  

1	General Project Experience	2,000 hours working on project teams These hours must be earned within the last 5 years Active PMP® experience will satisfy this requirement
2	Agile Project Experience	1500 hours working on agile project teams or with agile methodologies These hours are in addition to the 2,000 hours required in “general project experience” These hours must be earned within the last 3 years
3	Training in Agile Practices	21 contact hours (The PMI-ACP® Preparation Course will suffice here)

The cost of the exam €365 as a member of PMI® (€415 for non-members). For each agile project you must summarise this project to demonstrate how this project exemplified agile principles. This includes a description of the agile methodologies used and the process in which you delivered incremental results. The description is between 300 and 1100 characters. 

Step 2: - Start reading as PMI® have issued a long list of supplementary reading which is not all necessary. As part of Turlon’s ACP® Course, we provide a course manual with sample exam question. Here are some of the key texts: 

• 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
• 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
• Agile Estimating and Planning Mike Cohn ISBN #0131479415

Step 3: - Complete the preparation course and start to practice ACP® specific exam questions