For the Agile Professional

The most universal agile project management certification in the world.
This course prepares you to sit for the PMI-ACP certification exam.
The Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner certification signifies the top leaders in the agile mindset and practices.

BONUS
- If you already hold a PMP certification, you only need this training for application approval! And you get 38 hours of PDUs to maintain your PMP cert!
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The highly anticipated agile course is launching October 12, 2025.
You will have 12 full months access of the course. Including the monthly sessions with your instructor, Neal Rowland, as well as 48 hour email responses from him. 

Agile is the modern approach to managing projects and products. Learn how to be more successful and productive using this methodology.

Enroll in the course now. Progress at your own pace. Gain insightful, practical concepts that will change the way you think and approach projects. 

The ultimate goal is to obtain the highly respected ACP certification. Along the way, you are going to obtain meaningful knowledge that will help you, your team, and the entire Microsoft organization. 

What are you waiting for? Get started. There is so much to learn!
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PMI-ACP Exam Prep for MSFT

Certification exam prep for Microsoft Employees only.

This course is a preparation for the Agile Certified Practitioner from the Project Management Institute (PMI-ACP). The course has been designed to relate to the Microsoft datacenter employees. All the on-demand and live sessions are taught by former MSFT datacenter employee, Neal Rowland, PMI-ACP certified.

This course supplies the necessary training hours mandated by PMI to apply for the PMI-ACP.  

Learn about Agile Project Management with an amazing, engaging, on-demand course!
 

Learners

Full access to content and community with 48 SLA responses from instructor.

Hours of on-demand videos, activities, and content + hourly live sessions every month with the instructor, Neal Rowland!
SPECIAL DISCOUNT

MSFT Discounts from PMI

Per agreement between Microsoft and the Project Management Institute (PMI), you are entitled to discounts on the membership and certification exam fees. The PMI membership and certification exams can only be provided by PMI directly. Do not purchase either from any other site or provider.

Upon completion of The Crowd Training's PMI-ACP Exam Prep Course for MSFT, use the link below to request the MSFT discount code from PMI. You will need to use your MSFT alias to ensure the legitimacy for the discount code.
The PMI membership can be purchased at any time. Although, we recommend that you obtain the membership at the same time you purchase your exam voucher to simplify reimbursement. This way you can submit one time for the purchase of this course and the PMI items.
The exam voucher can only be purchased and used after your application has been approved by PMI. Instructions on how to apply are in this course and on pmi.org.
Completion of this course fulfills the required training component of the PMI-ACP application.

What's included?

  • 30+ video lessons covering the entire Exam Content Outline
  • Lessons instructed by seasoned Agile Coach, Neal Rowland
  • Content tailored for the MSFT audience
  • All coursework content only accessible by MSFT employees
  • 200+ practice exam questions with answers
  • 10 interactive lessons
  • 10 interactive games
  • Digital coursebook to guide participant throughout the courseware
  • Downloadable slides and activities
  • PMI-ACP application support
  • 5 one hour live "Office Hours" sessions per month open to all enrolled students to join any session at any time in that hour to ask questions directly to the instructor; in addition to a live mini-lesson based on the topics scheduled for that month. Over the fiscal year, there are 60 of these live sessions offered only to MSFT participants
  • Email support with SLA of 48 hours or less
  • 6 month's access to all the content, live sessions, and support with subscription
  • Certificate of Completion
  • Live Kahoot! Games based on the topics
  • Regular content updates
  • Bonus lessons to delve deeper into topics of interest
  • Content available to earn PDUs after certification or 30 PDUs for PMP holders

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Gain Professional Development Units (PDU).
Learn the most effective approach to modern knowledge based projects

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Meet the instructor

Neal Rowland

Neal has been instructing project management and IT service management courses for almost 20 years.

Over the past 6 years, Neal has been delivering these certification courses in a live instructor-led format nearly every single month with MSFT participants. Now he is ready to convert the highly acclaimed course into an on-demand offering. You receive the same effective training content, only on your schedule!
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