PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Boot Camp

Agile is no longer a grassroots movement to transform software development. Organizations are increasingly adopting this approach over their traditional waterfall approach in order to stay relevant and competitive. This PMI-ACP course helps participants prepare for the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification that would stand for the participant’s ability to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery.

The Project Management Institute (PMI)® launched the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Agile Certification in 2011 . This designation was built with the same rigors as the rest of the PMI certification family to provide comparable credibility for professionals who practice Agile methodologies in their organizations and during their projects.

In order to achieve and maintain the PMI-ACP designation you must:

• Get PMI to approve your PMI-ACP application (which means meeting all the application requirements)
• Have 21 Agile PMI PDUs in advance of filling out the application
• Pass the certification exam
• Maintain your certification by earning 30 Agile PDUs over every three years

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) eligibility requirements are as below –

What you need to know about the PMI-ACP application and renewal process

• Once you start the PMI-ACP application process you have 90 days to complete
• Do the online PMI-ACP application if at all possible. It takes five business days to process as opposed to waiting for the mail to get to the right person
• You can’t schedule your PMI-ACP exam until the application is approved and fees are paid
• If you are audited (possibly up to 25% of applications are randomly audited), you have 90 days to respond. You are not eligible until the successful completion of the audit
• You have one year to take the PMI-ACP exam after application approval. You can retake the PMI-ACP exam three times during that year
• Your PMI-ACP certification cycle starts the day you pass your exam, and your cycle is 3 years. You need 30 PDUs during that cycle
• You complete the renewal process once you have 30 PDUs and pay the renewal fee
• PMI-ACP certification suspension happens on the third anniversary of the day you passed your exam and you have yet to renew (1 year period)
• PMI-ACP certification expiration happens one year after the suspension period begins

The PMI-ACP examination details are as below –

PMI-ACP exam content and blueprint