PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

About the PMI-ACP® Certification

Be formally recognized for your knowledge of agile principles and your skills with agile techniques. The PMI-ACP Certification 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.

Education Requirements

• High school diploma or Bachelor’s degree
• 21 contact hours of training in agile practices

Experience Requirements

• 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years (A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP®)
• 8 months of agile project experience within the last three years.

PMI ACP Certification Maintenance Requirements

• Must earn 30 PDUs per three-year cycle to maintain certification.

Skills Covered in this PMI ACP Classes

• Agile Principles and Mindset – 16%
• Value-driven Delivery – 20%
• Stakeholder Engagement – 17%
• Team Performance – 16%
• Adaptive Planning – 12%
• Problem Detection and Resolution – 10%
• Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People) – 9%

PMI ACP Certification Exam Information

• 3 hours, 120 questions, multiple choice

Recommendation certification

• Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)
• PMI Authorized PMP Exam Prep