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Stop just warning about risks. Get the specialist credential that gives you the authority to prevent project disasters with the PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)? certification.
You are currently facilitating standups, sprints, and retrospectives, but your organization mistakes these agile activities for genuine agility. While you struggle to involve product owners, manage rigid scopes, and prove actual value delivery, professionals who hold the Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) credential are being hired for roles like Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches at higher compensation levels. Leadership trusts experts who are certified over uncredentialed practitioners, and your resume is often overlooked without the PMI-ACP designation. This is more than a standard project management certification. Our PMI-ACP Training Course was developed by proven agile leaders who have successfully transformed IT services, product development teams, and digital projects. The program goes beyond simply memorizing frameworks to teach you how to implement effective, adaptive agile management practices, even within environments that are primarily waterfall. Unlike other courses that only cover Agile vocabulary, we focus on developing true leadership capabilities: facilitating retrospectives that result in measurable change, establishing a Definition of Done to avoid technical debt, and guiding teams during the shift from predictive to adaptive delivery. The PMI-ACP project management exam confirms your knowledge, but the true benefit is confidently and authoritatively leading your team in real-world projects. Designed for working professionals, our program provides weekday evening and weekend session options, live interactive classes, and recordings for flexible study. You will also receive ready-to-use templates for product backlogs and sprint retrospectives, practical case studies, continuous expert assistance, and detailed help with your PMI-ACP application to assist you in avoiding common certification mistakes.
Study with assurance that your educational program complies with the official Project Management Institute standards and encompasses all seven required agile methodologies for the examination.
Unleash your potential with instructors who are PMI-ACP certified practitioners and possess direct experience in Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, and various other adaptive frameworks.
Pursue the PMI-ACP certification by selecting a training schedule that accommodates your time, as we offer evening weekday, weekend-only, or a concentrated four-day intensive bootcamp formats.
Quickly master the concepts with 21 hours of practical, hands-on training and personalized performance feedback provided through more than eight full-length exam simulations.
Overcome your weak areas with a collection of over 1500 custom-designed practice questions covering every agile knowledge area and mock tests that accurately reflect the actual examination.
Maintain peace of mind knowing that agile practitioners are available around the clock to address your questions regarding Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, and adaptive practices at every stage.
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Stop creating detailed plans that are quickly obsolete. Our Project Management Institute (PMI)-aligned Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) program instructs you in iterative planning using rolling wave techniques, empirical process control, and establishing commitment based on proven velocity and capacity rather than speculation.
Learn to prioritize the backlog effectively by assessing business value, inherent risk, and the cost of delay. This ensures your team focuses only on features that deliver meaningful results, which is an essential competency for any agile certified professional or anyone pursuing a project management certification.
Become highly effective at conducting agile ceremonies that achieve tangible results. You will learn specific facilitation methods for standups, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives that promote ongoing improvement instead of merely becoming resented rituals performed for compliance.
Cultivate servant leadership capabilities necessary to mentor teams, resolve obstacles, and nurture self-organizing environments. This skill is crucial for anyone aspiring to succeed as an Agile Certified Practitioner or lead project management initiatives.
Recognize that every sprint can either reveal fundamental systemic issues or reinforce existing dysfunctions. You will master concrete processes for identifying waste, implementing kaizen (continuous change), and utilizing metrics like cycle time and cumulative flow to drive valuable change.
You must eliminate departmental silos, or your delivery speed will inevitably slow down. You will be taught techniques for dismantling organizational barriers, facilitating productive communication between technical and business stakeholders, and building truly integrated cross-functional teams.
If your work is within adaptive environments and you satisfy PMI's required agile experience criteria across multiple methodologies, this training program is specifically designed to help you achieve certification.
Gain access to the agile leadership interviews that your professional background already warrants but your resume currently cannot demonstrate.
reserved exclusively for certified agile practitioners who can prove multi-methodology proficiency beyond simple Scrum fundamentals.
with formal PMI validation and a permanent role in strategic transformation decisions.
The PMI-ACP certification is respected globally specifically because it demands both extensive and detailed experience?you are required to have structured agile training, general project experience, AND specific agile project experience across a variety of methodologies. PMI has established specific criteria to ensure that every certified professional possesses a verified foundation in adaptive practices, moving past mere theoretical knowledge. Below is a summary of the high-level requirements necessary for you to qualify.
21 Hours of Formal Agile Training: This is a mandatory requirement that is completely met by successfully finishing our PMI-Authorized training program.
General Project Experience: A minimum of 2,000 hours (approximately 12 months) of previous experience working on project teams within the last five years.
Agile Project Experience: A minimum of 1,500 hours (approximately 8 months) working on project teams utilizing agile methodologies within the last three years.
Please Note: This agile experience must be IN ADDITION to the general project experience requirement.
Multi-Methodology Experience: Your recorded agile hours must demonstrate experience with diverse agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, etc.)?not just repeated experience in a single framework.
For a comprehensive breakdown: of how to accurately document your hours and avoid common application errors, please consult our detailed FAQ section.
Build deep expertise in the most widely-adopted agile framework. Learn the roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team), events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), and artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment) that form Scrum's foundation. Master sprint execution, Definition of Done, and handling real-world complications like mid-sprint disruptions.
Master flow-based delivery and continuous improvement using Kanban. Learn to visualize work, limit work-in-progress, manage flow, make process policies explicit, and implement feedback loops. Understand when Kanban is more effective than Scrum, how to measure cycle time and throughput, and techniques for optimizing flow in your delivery pipeline. These skills enhance your value as an Agile Certified Practitioner and prepare you for the project management exam.
Develop expertise in identifying and eliminating waste in software delivery and knowledge work. Master the seven types of waste (partially done work, extra features, relearning, handoffs, delays, task switching, defects), value stream mapping, and continuous improvement techniques. Learn to apply lean thinking beyond manufacturing contexts to agile software delivery.
Learn the technical practices that enable true agility: test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, refactoring, and collective code ownership. Understand how XP's engineering disciplines prevent technical debt and enable sustainable pace. Master the business practices like planning games, small releases, and on-site customers.
Apply build-measure-learn cycles and validated learning to minimize waste in product development. Master techniques for creating minimum viable products (MVP), defining and measuring actionable metrics versus vanity metrics, conducting split tests, and pivoting based on evidence. Learn how to apply startup thinking within established organizations.
Understand alternative agile approaches and when they provide advantages over Scrum or Kanban. Learn Feature-Driven Development's domain modeling and feature list creation, Crystal's approach to methodology tailoring based on team size and criticality, and how to adapt frameworks to your specific organizational context.
Master iterative planning at multiple horizons: release planning, iteration planning, and daily planning. Learn progressive elaboration, rolling wave planning, and how to create realistic commitments based on empirical data. Understand planning poker, affinity estimation, and story point sizing that actually works instead of becoming another form of time estimation.
Develop practical skills in relative estimation using story points, ideal days, and t-shirt sizing. Learn when to estimate and when estimation is waste. Master techniques for breaking down large features into estimable user stories, handling technical debt and refactoring in your estimates, and managing estimation in distributed teams.
Implement metrics that drive improvement rather than encourage gaming. Master burndown charts, burnup charts, cumulative flow diagrams, velocity tracking, cycle time, and lead time. Learn to design information radiators that make work visible, identify trends early, and support data-driven decision-making in agile management. These competencies prepare you to lead teams effectively and demonstrate your capabilities as a certified professional.
Execute effective value delivery by understanding value streams, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing continuous delivery practices. Learn to reduce batch sizes, automate testing and deployment, and create fast feedback loops. Master techniques for delivering value frequently while maintaining quality and managing technical risk?essential skills for any Agile Certified Practitioner and aspirants of PMI-ACP certification..
Navigate risk management in adaptive contexts where traditional risk registers don't work. Learn spike solutions for technical uncertainty, set-based design for requirements uncertainty, and incremental delivery for market risk. Understand how to satisfy compliance requirements (audit, regulatory, governance) in iterative delivery without destroying agility.
Develop test-taking strategies specifically designed for the PMI-ACP exam format and multi-methodology coverage. Learn question analysis techniques for scenario-based questions, how to distinguish between framework-specific and universal agile practices, and time management strategies for the 3-hour exam. Complete final practice assessments and prepare for certification with confidence.
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