PMI-ACP Requirements: Agile Certified Practitioner prerequisites

Agile is a breath of fresh air for enterprises who wanted to move away from traditional command and control management styles that spread across industries. By ensuring the workforce moved away from traditional silos to customer-focused multidisciplinary teams, the Agile approach ensured accelerated growth and helped create next-generation Agile practitioners.

Currently, there is huge demand for Agile practitioners with strong foundational skills and companies are looking for professionals who are familiar with multiple Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, TDD, ATDD, Extreme Programming and others. Most of the time certified professionals are preferred over non-certified counterparts, because a certification from renowned governing bodies demonstrates core knowledge in the domain and willingness to learn and invest in oneself.

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification is one of the widely recognized Agile certifications for professionals worldwide.

In this PMI Agile Certified Practitioner exam prep training, you will learn:

• Agile principles and practices
• Creating high-performance teams who deliver results on a consistent basis
• Techniques used for actively managing project scope and ensuring delivery of the best products possible
• Implementing multi iterative development models for projects
• Delivering high Velocity Stories and Epics
• New ways of managing project scope, schedule, budget and quality that are easily improved through effective Agile controls
• Applying powerful metrics across projects to ensure continuous improvement
• About Common pitfalls while adopting Agile practices
• Agile principles of Scrum, Kanban, XP, and TDD
• and skills required to clear PMI-ACP certification exam

The PMI-ACP exam requirements are:

• Educational Background: Secondary Degree (high school diploma, associate's degree or global equivalent).
• General Project Experience: 2,000 hours (12 months) in project teams, which must have been acquired in the last five years.
• Agile Project Experience: A minimum of 1,500 hours (8 months) of agile project experience within the last three years. These hours should be in addition to the 2,000 hours of general project experience.
• Training in Agile Practices: 21 contact hours in Agile practices.

Job roles that can benefit from PMI-ACP training include, but are not limited to:

• Project Managers
• Project Planners
• Quality Assurance Staff
• Developers / Programmers
• Designers
• Testers
• Project Controllers
• Product Owners
• Scrum Masters
• Scrum Team Members
• Anyone looking to gain knowledge of managing agile projects and understand how Agile is applied and practiced in a project environment

The format for PMI ACP exam is as follows:

• Exam Type: Multiple Choice Questions
• Number of Questions: 120
• Exam Duration: 180 Mins
• Passing Score: The passing score is determined through psychometric analysis

The PMI member price for the exam is 435 USD. The standard non-member price to take the exam is 495 USD per attempt.

Yes. At Invensis Learning, you can opt to take up this PMI ACP course in live-online delivery mode.

According to people who have attempted PMI-ACP, the exam is not as difficult compared to the PMP® exam. However, to successfully complete the exam you need to have practical experience of implementing Agile principles and extensive knowledge of various Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, TDD, and others.

PMI is responsible for both Project Management Professional and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certifications. While PMP certification validates an individual’s expertise in managing projects and helps their teams bring a project to completion. On the other hand, the PMI-ACP certification recognizes a candidate’s knowledge of agile principles and his/her skill with agile techniques. In simpler terms PMI-ACP focuses on Agile alone, while PMP focuses on project management in general. So, the answer to the question “PMP or PMI-ACP?” depends on the candidate's interest.

You need to complete a total of 120 questions in 3 hours. The passing score is determined through psychometric analysis.

To renew or maintain your PMI-ACP, you must earn 30 professional development units (PDUs) in agile topics every three years.

• Register to become a member of PMI (Optional)
• Take PMI-ACP exam prep course from PMI REPs such as Invensis Learning
• Submit your PMI-ACP application through PMI website & pay the fee
• Schedule your exam
• Take the exam and pass it with flying colors

PMI-ACP is specifically designed for Project & Program Managers, Scrummasters, Product Owners, Agile Coaches, Scrum Product Owners, Agile Trainers, Sr. Developers, Business and IT Managers with extensive experience in various Agile methodologies such as Scrum, kanban, XP, lean, DSDM, TDD, ATDD, etc.