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About AgileDS™ Certification

AgileDS™ Certification Overview

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Benefits of AgileDS™ Certification

For Individuals

  • Learn and apply the underpinning principles of Agile Digital Services in a project situation and appropriately configure the lifecycle of a project to a given scenario. 
  • Identify and apply the Agile Digital Services techniques to be used for a given situation within a scenario.
  • Understand the mechanisms for planning, control and governance of an Agile Digital Services project.
  • Know how to test, estimate and measure progress during an Agile Digital Services project and identify actions to rectify problems.
  • Claim the Business Agility Professional Level 1 – Explorer title and an additional digital badge from the Agile Business Consortium.

For Organizations

  • Provides teams with a consistent approach they can adapt into best-practices for the design and delivery of their digital services.
  • Clarifies the roles and responsibilities within an AgileDS project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles within a given scenario.
  • Helps teams effectively test, estimate, and measure progress, guaranteeing digital services evolve with user needs and expectations.
  • Ensures digital services meet and exceed user expectations by prioritizing user experience and feedback in the development process.
  • Broadens team expertise by teaching Agile planning, control, and governance tools for predictable, high-quality outcomes.

    Study materials

    Agile Digital Services (AgileDS™)  study material cover
    AgileDS (BETA) Handbook
    Book, eBook (English)
    By
    Agile Business Consortium

    AgileDS™ Certification levels

    AgileDS Foundation badge

    AgileDS™ Foundation

    Understand the key concepts of AgileDS to work effectively as an AgileDS project team member.

    AgileDS Practitioner badge

    AgileDS™ Practitioner

    Understand how to apply and tailor the AgileDS guidance to a given scenario situation.

    Videos

    Videos

    AgileDS: Delivering effective digital services in an Agile way

    | 50 hours 32 seconds

    How to manage Agile Projects

    | 1 hour 1 minute 55 seconds

    Top 10 questions on Agile Project Management

    | 59 minutes 25 seconds

    FAQs

    You can always access all your records, electronic certificates and badges via the APMG Candidate Portal.  

    Once you have logged on to the Candidate Portal, click on the ‘Badges and Certificates’ option from the menu bar at the top of screen. From here you should click on the ‘Create Badge/Certificate’ button. This will take you to the Credly platform to create an account and download your badge and certificate. 

    Step-by-step guidance is available to download from the ‘Badges and Certificates’ area in your Candidate Portal. 

    Electronic certificates are environmentally friendly, but you can print the certificate yourself at home or work, if required. 

    If you have any problems you are welcome to contact our customer service team.  

    If you previously sat an exam with us and were issued a paper certificate but would like to upgrade to a digital badge and e-certificate, please contact us. There is a £25 administration fee for providing a digital badge and a form for which you will need to complete to consent to your personal information being used in order to manually create the badge in Credly.com.

    If your exam is booked through a Training Organization, and they are proctoring your exam over a platform of their choosing, you will need reach out to them directly to discuss options to reschedule.  

    If your exam is with ProctorU, you can reschedule without additional charges as many times as you wish up to 24 hours prior to your booked slot. If you reschedule within this 24-hour period, you will need to pay the £38 reschedule fee, as we will still be charged by ProctorU for your slot.

    You can merge your account by logging into your candidate portal with your initial email address and click on your name at the top. Then click merge and send a merge request to your secondary email address. Once you have agreed to the email request, everything will appear in one account. Please contact us if you have any problems with this process and we will be happy to help.

    You may contact our Accreditation Team directly, and they will be happy to answer your questions regarding the Accreditation process.

    To become an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), apply for accreditation or contact your local APMG office. If suitable, you'll receive an invoice and undergo APMG International's ATO assessment.

    Trainers must be sponsored by an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), which can be found using the APMG International search tool. The sponsoring ATO must submit a trainer application to APMG. 

    The requirements, including pass marks of the exams, will vary depending on the certification, please get in touch for more information.

    You can either contact your Training Organization to purchase a new exam, or you can purchase a new exam directly from our public exams website. For more information, see our more detailed article on resitting an exam.

    Please contact our 24/7 Technical Team on +44 (0)1494 452450 and select Option 3 for Technical Assistance or email them at help@apmg-international.com. They are also available via a live chat.  

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    Any request for additional time will need to be provided in writing to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will need to see evidence of your diagnosed condition in the form of a medical report, signed by a medical practitioner.  

    If this is not available, or your condition was diagnosed a long time ago, then any statement from an employer, line manager or Occupation Health advisor will be sufficient.  

    If no recommendations regarding the length of time to be added to the exam is evident in the documents supplied, then we apply 25% additional time to the exam.

    Get in touch

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