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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

Offered by the PMI, the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification is designed to validate your knowledge of agile principles and skills with agile techniques. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). CompTIA Project+.

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Be SAFe: Using Top-down Estimation to Align Vision, Value, and Velocity in Your Organization

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SAFe’s creators describe it as “an online, freely-revealed knowledge base of proven success patterns for implementing Lean-Agile IT, software and systems development at enterprise scale.”. Enter the SAFe zone. Fortunately, there’s the Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe. The benefits of a top-down estimation framework.