Agile certifications have restructured the pace of software development and project management, and has built the speed and demand for IT professionals with knowing the methodology and its variety of flavors – Lean, Scrum, and Scaled Agile, or SAFe, for the enterprise. A number certifications exist to target and test your knowledge and competition with the framework.
PMI-ACP
The Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), is for project management developers whose organisations currently use or are carrying on to agile practices. The PMI-ACP proves certification holders have standard-world experience managing agile projects and familiarizing with many subsets of the agile methods including Scrum, Kanban, Lean and others. Those who develop and gain the certification must earn at least 30 professional development units (PDUs) every three years to maintain their status.
APMG International
APMG International is a globally reputed organisation with a number of agile project management certification offerings. The basic goal is to benchmark the ability of the project managers to deliver agile projects in organisations that needs standards, benchmarks and visibility around the agile framework. APMG International offers certifications in structured program management and agile the project management and also a certificate for users of the Dynamic Systems Development Method is an agile project management and deliver framework that is provider free.
Strategyex Certificate in Agile
Online learning company Twenty Eighty Strategy Execution, in partnership with George Washington University, provides either an Associate or Masters Certificate in structured practices. The Associate’s certificate needs taking three courses over two years, and highlights your agile knowledge and skills. The Master’s level certificate work on taking seven courses over a four-year period to show your expertise in the subject and methodology. Only the Master’s level certificate allows certificate holders to add credentials after their name. Twenty Eighty also provides courses for individuals Agile project and product management, estimation and planning and Agile requirements.
International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
The International Consortium for Agile is an independent agency offering complex agile certifications that give role to develop expertise across all agile ‘flavors,’ including Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban and so on.
There are three certification levels: Professional, Expert and Master, to test and evaluate candidate’s knowledge acquisition and competency within Agile.
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