PMI-ACP-agile certified practitioner handbook

PMI-ACP Application & Payment
How to Record Your Experience on the Application
General Project Experience
Use the General Project Experience Worksheet in the application to record your general project
experience. This includes time spent working on project teams regardless of the methodology. The
experience does not necessarily have to be paid work, but it does need to be in a professional setting.
Activities such as school projects or planning personal events would not qualify. Record each project you
worked on individually.
You need a minimum of 2,000 hours (12 months) of unique, non-overlapping experience accrued within
the last five years. This means that each month you worked on multiple, overlapping projects (projects
that ran simultaneously) counts as one month toward the total requirement. Using this example below,
the time spent working on Project 1 from January–April would count as four months toward the eligibility
requirement while the time spent working on Project 2 during May–June would count as two months
toward the eligibility requirement. However, you cannot count the time working on both projects during
February–April twice. Therefore, Project 1 and Project 2 equal six months (January–June) of project
experience toward your eligibility requirement.
Agile Project Experience
Use the Agile Project Experience Worksheet in the application to record your agile project experience.
This includes time spent working on agile teams.
Record each project you worked on individually. You need a minimum of 1,500 hours (eight months) of
unique, non-overlapping experience accrued within the last three years. This means that each month you
worked on multiple, overlapping projects (projects that ran simultaneously) counts as one month toward
the total requirement (same as noted above).
Further, your agile project experience must be unique and separate from your general project
experience.
PMI-ACP ® Handbook – revised 9 May 2019
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