Agile Certified Practitioner

According to the PMI website, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner is “created for those who believe in and apply agile principles and practices on projects” and “formally recognizes your knowledge of agile principles and your skill with agile techniques” (www.pmi.org ). Also, PMI, Project Management Institute, claimed that the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner is their fastest growing certification. A VersionOne survey reported that the rate of practicing Agile frameworks increased 21 percent (from 35 percent to 76 percent) in 2013 (https://www.versionone.com/pdf/2013-state-of-agile-survey.pdf ). Moreover, according to “Agile Project Management Software User Report” in 2015, “forty-eight percent of project managers surveyed use agile software primarily
for projects not related to software development” (softwareadvice.com).The article “Agile development surprises – growth modest, but large enterprises buy in”,written in 2017, found out that “agile adoption was highest (74%) in large companies”. The IT industry is trending to practice Agile, and many well-known companies, for example: Tricentis, ThoughtWorks, etc, according to the article—Top 6 Agile Companies (2017), are using Agile in their projects. Agile is becoming more and more popular and used by both, tech and non-tech companies. Undeniably, my major, Master of Science—Information System Management, has a strong relation with Agile software development. It is better for me to obtain this knowledge and skill as soon as I can. I believe that PMI-ACP certification will transfer my project management skills to another stage.