Demonstrate Your Agile Team Experience Runs Deep. Created by agilists for agilists, the PMI-ACP is our fastest growing certification.
If you’re experienced using agile approaches, have good collaboration skills, eagerly embrace complexity and thrive on rapid response times, then your talents are in demand.
From the people who brought you the PMP credential , the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. Show your peers, employers, and stakeholders that your agile knowledge runs deep.
Overview
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques. It will make you shine even brighter to your employers, stakeholders and peers.
The PMI-ACP® is our fastest growing PMI certification, and it’s no wonder. Organizations that are highly agile and responsive to market dynamics complete more of their projects successfully than their slower-moving counterparts.
The PMI-ACP spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD.) So it will increase your versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
Skills Covered
- Apply agile practices on specific project situations;
- Understand the agile approach, during the requirement, analysis, design, development, tests and deployment phases;
- Understand the challenges of the agile approach in project management;
- Determine if the agile approach is an option considering the project situation and environment;
- Adapt the agile approach;
Prerequisites
General Project Experience:
- 2,000 hours working on project teams
- These hours must be earned within the last 5 years
- Active PMP or PgMP credential will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP.
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
- 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years
Training in Agile Practices
- 21 contact hours
- Hours must be earned in agile practices
Examination
- Tests knowledge of agile fundamentals
Target Audience
If you work on agile teams or if your organization is adopting agile practices, the PMI-ACP is a good choice for you. Compared with other agile certifications based solely on training and exams, the PMI-ACP is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill.
Module 1: About The PMI-ACPM Certification and The Exam
Module 2: Introduction to Agile
- Agile History
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile vs Waterfall
Module 3: Project Selection
- Project Charter
- Project Selection Methods
Module 4: Define Requirements
- Brainstorming
- Root-Cause Analysis
- 20/20 Vision
- “Buy a Feature”
- The Apprentice
- “Product Box”
- ”Prune the Product Tree”
- Force Field Analysis
- “Parking Lot”
- Personas and Extreme Personas
- Wireframes
Module 5: Agile Planning
- Release and Iteration Planning
- Vision Document
- Product Roadmap
- Themes
- Epic Stories
- User Stories and Story Cards
- Story Maps
- Features
- Minimal Marketable Feature
- Tasks
- Value Stream Mapping
- Progressive Elaboration
- Rolling Wave Planning
- Test-First Development
- Agile Modeling
- Time Boxing
- Continuous Integration
Module 6: Agile Estimating
- Relative Sizing
- Delphi and Wideband Delphi
- Planning Poker
- Affinity Diagramming
- Ideal Time
- Velocity
- Cycle Time
- Burn Rate
- Product Backlog
Module 7: Working With Agile
- Backlogs
- Quality Management
- Verification and Validation
- Kaizen
- WIP Limits
- Retrospectives
- Change Management
- Escaped Defects
- Smells
- Spikes
- Kaizen
- Refactoring
- Risk-Adjusted Backlogs
Module 8: Communication
- Osmosis Communication
- Burn Up and Burn Down Charts
- Kanban Boards
- Radiators
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
Module 9: Stakeholder And Team
- Management
- Collaboration
- Motivation
- Negotiation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Conflict Management
- Leadership
Module 10: Earned Value Management
- Earned Value Adjusted to Agile
- Reporting
Module 11: Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- XP
- Lean
Dates & Locations
July 20, 2026 - July 22, 2026
July 20, 2026 - July 22, 2026
October 19, 2026 - October 21, 2026
October 19, 2026 - October 21, 2026
October 19, 2026 - October 21, 2026
Exam & Certification
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Be formally recognized for your knowledge of agile principles and your skills with agile techniques. The PMI-ACP is evidence of your real-world, hands-on experience and skill as part of an agile team. It spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD), not limiting a practitioner to one agile approach.
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