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Web Seminar Recap: Agile Certifications Options Primer

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Agile has made the leap and is now mainstream. The reality is, once something becomes mainstream, hiring needs to happen. When this happens, hiring managers need a baseline to judge applicants. In comes certification. The agile certification market has grown extensively over the last two years with both large and small organizations entering the market place.

On Tuesday, January 8th ASPE President, David Mantica, and VP of Public Sales, Tom McGraw, presented the free web seminar, Agile Certifications Options Primer. In this one-hour presentation David and Tom discussed the components of a traditional Agile certification program that will gain respect and recognition, the value of certifications from an employer and employee’s persepctive, and detailed the top Agile certification in the market place and gave details on steps to achieve each certification. Click to continue »

ASPE Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Workshop (May 30 to June 1, 2012)

Monday, June 18th, 2012

by Richard Little, PMP

As an experienced PMP who is planning to seek the PMI-ACP certification, I recently took the ASPE Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)℠ Workshop and was extremely pleased with its overall structure and content.  In fact, I was so pleased with this workshop, which was also my first ASPE course, that I decided to post this blog to share my thoughts and reactions regarding it, including why I would encourage my fellow PMPs to earn their PMI-ACP certification and consider ASPE for their preferred training partner.

If you’re not familiar with this new certification, PMI recently created it to recognize PMPs that have demonstrated their working knowledge of the major principles, practices, and methodologies of agile project management.  In fact, according to www.PMI.org, a PMP in good standing must have at least 1,500 hours working on agile project teams or with agile methodologies, in addition to the overall hours of general project management experience, to qualify for this certification.  Also, a PMP must also have had 21 contact hours of training, which is satisfied by taking this class, which earns you exactly 21 PDUs. Click to continue »