The PMI-ACP is a professional certification that is offered by a selected few institutes to individuals. PMI (Project Management Institute) is known to offer professional certification for agile practitioners known as PMI Agile Certified Practitioners (PMI-ACP). The examination for PMI professional certification stands apart from other project management certification examination development practices. The PMI is known to align itself with certification industry best practices, just like the ones that are used in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (Project Management Institute, 2014). In order to get the PMI-ACP certification, one must attain the minimum requirements education and professional experience requirements. One must have a secondary degree, have 12 months of having worked on project teams over the last 5 years, 8 moths of having worked on project teams using the agile methodologies over the last three years and at least 21 contact hours earned in agile practices. On the other hand, the Scrum Alliance (CSM, CPO) is less rigorous and less time consuming to attain as compared to PMI-ACP. Here, the individual needs to take a CSM course from a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and demonstrate your progress through online CSM test. However, rather than provide one-time training which is simple in nature,...

This training focuses more on the team building aspect and cohesive approach to project management, while the PMI-ACP program focuses more on the international standards and how to meet them in the process of project management (Scrum Alliance, 2016).
There is also the SAFe Agilist certification program which is mostly formatted for the managers, the executives as well as the Agile change agents who are entrusted with the change initiatives within a large software enterprise. This SAFe certification validates the knowledge of these individuals as mentioned in lean thinking, applying the scaled agile framework and product development flow principles within the context of an enterprise in order for them to lead in the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework. In order for one to qualify to be taken in for the SAFe certification program, he needs one to have a five year experience in software development, testing, business analysis, product or project management (Agilocity, 2017).

In a nutshell, the PMI-ACP focuses more on the higher internationally acceptable standards of project management, while the Scrum alliance is more concerned with developing a team approach to the…