Project Management Institute
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Broad agile practitioner credential from PMI
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner spans several agile approaches instead of concentrating on the Product Owner accountability, which suits product people who work in mixed-method environments.
Who it suits
Suited to Product Owners or product-minded delivery leads who work across several agile methods and want a recognized credential from the project management world rather than a Scrum-specific one.
Key differences
- Its scope covers Scrum alongside Lean, Kanban, and other agile approaches, whereas the Scrum.org credential stays inside Product Ownership depth.
- It comes from PMI, a body tied to project and program management, so the framing leans toward delivery practice rather than product strategy and value decisions.
- Assessment is a conventional written exam rather than written responses to open-ended product scenarios, giving up some of the depth-of-reasoning emphasis.
- Level
- Professional
- Assessment
- Written
- Study time
- 50-120h
- Listed from
- $435