What's the Difference between Disciplined Agile and PMI ACP?
Ashish Sadekar
Founder and CEO | Author | Speaker | Trainer | All things Project Management
This is a common question nowadays among the project practitioners. With Agility becoming a talking point among the practitioners, one thing which keeps curiosity level high is which is the best Agile solution for my needs?
Further complications is when PMI, the largest body in project management space, is advocating 2 Agile solutions or certifications. Many are confused rather than enlightened about what's the way forward. Which certification we should choose?
A lot of questions come to the practitioner's mind?
What's the difference between Disciplined Agile and PMI-ACP?
- Why PMI is having 2 certifications in Agile space?
- Which one we should go with?
- What's the future like for these 2 certifications?
- As a practitioner, what should be go to Agile way if we need to develop mastery in Agile.
I have further elucidated this topic with great details which is published on the following link below. I trust this will be good read for people who wish to know the difference between Disciplined Agile and PMI-ACP? How they are same or different?
The above article illustrates and explains to the user about what to choose given your needs and how to proceed to choose a certification in the Agile space.
I recently also took a webinar on the same subject and it was very well received by people across the globe. I am inserting a video recording of the same topic. The content is along the same lines and practitioners & aspirants can go through the audio to know more about this topic.
I will be coming with the different articles on the differences and comparisons in the Agile space, in my next few articles which will help the practitioner and aspirant community of Agile to help make decisions on what solution is the best suited for them.
Give your comments / suggestions / thoughts to make the article more enriching.
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IT Project Manager
1 年Great post on the Prothoughts link. I am curious to know if you still feel DASM has gained more traction in recognition vs PMI-ACP in todays world? For example, have you seen a trend where companies are preferring DASM over PMI-ACP certified PM's.
Digital Transformation Project Leader | PMP | Black Belt Lean Six Sigma | Scrum Master | DASSM | AHPP | Leed Green Associate
2 年Hi Ashish, Thank you very much for your article. I personally had to choose between the two, & your insights made it clear !
IT Programme Manager | Account Service Delivery Transition & Transformation - Telco & IT | Data & Analytics Insights - Data Transformation - Gen AI Strategy Roll Out | Consultative Selling & Deal Closure | PMI Mentoring
4 年Ashish Sadekar good insight Ashish !! You summarised it very well. DA is evolving as see that’s the trend in the recent months. To me it is going through rapid agile way of change and at broader sense , this is cutting across any practices and touching up one or the other form.
Author "Pragmatic Agility", Indian Achiever's Award 2020 for Excellence in EduTech, Executive Director at Garranto Academy for Singapore and Malaysia, Advisor @ Empiric
4 年Good effort here Ashish. As per me ACP is more strategic opportunity to understand the overall agile project management while DA is away of life to be chosen to be successful. Good part is both of them are framework or domain agnostic. They compliment each other to strategise and execute the agile way of working of a particular context. They are mutually exclusive and so both of them are highly recommended for anyone whoever wanted to take the agile learning’s to the next level.
Studying Doctorate | Tech & Business consulting
4 年Thanks Ashish for the detailed and informative content. As rightly mentioned, DA focusses on the broader picture by emphasizing on using the best practices from different sources, allows organizations and teams to start from where they are and focus on business agility. It breaks the monotony of frameworks and gives importance to systems thinking, governance and context rather than spending effort in following stringent, complex rules. DA certainly opens up your mind to innovate, make the right decisions (by ploughing through options) and I can say this from personal experience.