PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

What is PMI-ACP?

ACP stands for Agile Certified Practitioner. This credential is offered by (Project Management Institute PMI). ACP Certification conveys a high level of professional integrity as it is an amalgamation of agile training working on Agile projects and analyzing Agile fundamentals and tools. The certification is widely accepted as it enables professionals to help people in resolving the issues of associations that are based on Certified Agile practitioners to apply their varied skills to handle the project efficiently. During the training, the aspirants acquire in-depth knowledge of existing Agile frameworks, covering Kanban, Scrum, and extreme programming.

Prior Experience

To enroll in the PMI-ACP®, candidates must fulfill the below-mentioned criteria:

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Project Experience

  • In the last 5 years having 2000 hours of working on project teams. An Active PMP ®/PGMP ® Credential is required

Agile Project Experience

  • In addition to “General Project Experience” stated above 1500 hours of working on Agile Project Teams or with Agile procedures

Training in Agile Practices

  • 21 contact hours gained in Agile Practices
What is Agile?

In a nutshell, Agile is an incremental approach that helps professionals meet the rising demands of the modern workplace. To measure the team’s performance and to correct data-driven decisions Agile provides integral metrics like cycle time, lead time, and throughput. The benefits of Agile are several and it is the most popular approach to typical project management. The Agile project management methodology aims to deliver the product to the customer in smaller phases instead of delivering at a time. Hence, it will be easy for the customer to assess the delivered module of the project and ensure that the fine quality is maintained.

Exam Details

The ACP exam consists of a total of 120 MCQs- 20 of which are pretest questions that are not counted in the score. CBT is the standard method for PMI certifications exams, while paper-based evaluation is available in certain situations. The total time of the test is 3 hours.

The questions are sectioned evenly- 50% Agile tools & techniques and 50% knowledge and skills. The Agile tools and techniques cover Communications; Planning; Agile estimation; Product quality, Monitoring and adapting; Agile analysis and design; soft skill negotiation; Risk management, Value-based prioritization; Metrics; and Value stream analysis.