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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

    To appeal your result, email a written request with supporting evidence to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will review your appeal and respond. See APMG’s policies for details on the full appeals process.

    Your results will be processed 6 to 12 hours after your exam. You will receive an email confirming your achievement and inviting you to the Candidate Portal where you can see your official result. From there, you can create your account in Credly.com and access your digital badge and certificate.

    Your training organization specified that they wish to view candidate results before releasing. If you would like your results sooner, you may contact your ATO directly and request your results that way. After they have released them, you will be able to create/view your Digital Badge and download your Digital Certificate in your Credly account in the Certificates section of your portal.

    Since 2018, we are no longer registered for AXELOS qualifications and are unable to provide the certificates.  

    If you received your AXELOS qualification before this time, you can contact customer service and upon providing your candidate number, ask if a copy of your certificate still exists in our system. 

    Alternatively, you can reach out to IT PeopleCert directly with this request quoting your candidate number.  

    If you do not have your candidate number, we can provide it to you. Additionally, we are happy to provide a letter of verification for any exams sat with us.

    When you pass an exam – you will instantly have the option to claim a digital badge as representation of your new certificate. Your badge can be embedded on an email signature, website, digital CV, or shared via LinkedIn.  

    Access the downloadable guide for more information on how to claim your digital badge.

    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.

    Get in touch

    If you have a query about this certification or want to know more about training send us a message via this contact form. We would love to hear from you!

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