Get Certified in Agile Project Management
(ICP-APM)

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What is the Agile Project Management (ICP-APM) course?

🧭 Lead with Systems Thinking — shift from managing people to managing the delivery system for lasting impact.
🔁 Plan Adaptively, Not Predictively — build plans that evolve with feedback and changing priorities.
🧩 See and Solve Dependencies Early — identify blockers and streamline flow across teams.
⚡ Enable Rapid Feedback & Learning — use short cycles to de-risk delivery and accelerate insight.
📊 Measure What Matters — focus on value, flow, and system health instead of busywork metrics.
🧠 Turn Constraints into Catalysts — use limits like time and budget to drive creativity and focus.
🤝 Empower High-Performing Teams — create psychological safety and shared accountability.
🧾 Navigate Governance & Risk with Agility — align compliance, contracts, and controls without slowing delivery.

Who: Project Managers

Who: Project Managers

Designed for Project / Program Managers with a firm grasp of Agile Fundamentals.

Duration: 8-16 Hours

Duration: 8-16 Hours

Although the course is self-paced, most learners complete Agile Foundations (ICP) in 8-16 hours.

Format: Self-Paced

Format: Self-Paced

This course is delivered on-demand. That means you can sign up today and start learning at your pace.

LEARNERS LOVE KAIRISE

Gregory D.

Project Manager

This excellent course gave me great confidence to transition from a Business Analyst to a Project Manager. The knowledge delivery system is outstanding -- it is easy to digest and retain. I wish all courses were taught this way

Obel G.

Senior Project Manager

One of the best On Demand courses I have taken. The course flow, content, and delivery by Mike Lyons was superb.

Benjamin F.

IT Delivery Manager

I thought the course went well. The material was well presented and the exercises kept me interested. Appreciate the humor and scenarios that were put in through out the course to keep me engaged. I enjoyed learning the material.

Mohammad S.

Type of person

This course is focusing on agile mindset and straightforward information that I applied directly to my work environment to enhance my project approaches and productivity. Thanks and waiting for more certifications to be available.

Melany A.

IT Delivery Manager

The course format is excellent—concise, insightful overviews that are easy to follow and highly informative. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to expand their knowledge at their own pace.

Scott V.

Renewable Energy Project Manager

The on-demand training makes the learning chunks very digestible and applicable. The content was also well structured and organised.
A really good course for anyone looking to get exposure to Agile Project Management for professional development.

Marquay L.

Type of person

Great course with small modules which allowed me to work on the content on my own schedule. I appreciated the change in delivery methods and the feedback provided with suggested things to consider.

WHAT'S COVERED

Agile Project Management is packed with everything that Project Managers need to know to successfully launch, run and optimize agile projects.

Understanding complex systems and how agile ways of working can be applied to mitigate risk is a crucial starting point for effective agile project management. 

In this chapter we'll explore complexity models like Cynefin, different delivery modes, and how the manager's role needs to change in agile environments.

Shifting from managing people to managing systems is a fundamental skill for agile Project Managers. 

In these lessons we'll explore value stream, optimizing for fast feedback, managing dependencies, and effectively using a Definition of Done. 

Establishing effective governance and contracts is an essential prerequisite for agile delivery success. 

In these lessons we'll dive into contract types, agile governance, using constraints effectively, and much more. 

Building high-performing agile teams is perhaps the most important function you can perform as an Agile Project Manager. 

In these lessons we'll explore models of team formation, effective communication, chartering and much more. 

At a fundamental level, agile  is about delivering the right solution, to the right person at the right time. 

In these lessons we unpack incremental delivery, stakeholder identification, constraints and much more. 

Planning in an agile environment looks quite different from traditional planning. 

In these lessons we'll explore understanding and implementing adaptive planning at multiple levels, from vision down to daily planning. We'll also dive into how to adjust plans based on new information. 

Too many projects fall into the trap of relying on vanity metrics that offer little insight into the health of their project. 

In our final lessons we'll dive into developing a balanced dashboard of metrics, relating value and scope, balancing predictability and flexibility and much more. 

Meet Your Instructor

In 2006 I read the Agile Manifesto for the first time and it changed my career. Before Agile was even “a thing”, I saw how working in small batches, fast feedback, and shipping often was key.

From that point on, I became dedicated to helping teams and organizations become faster, nimbler and more adaptive. Across my 30 year career I’ve worked with startups, non-profits, state and local governments and fortune 100 enterprises to get real results with agile.

But it hasn't all been rainbows and lollipops.

I’ve made plenty of mistakes and seen agile fail miserably. Today I look back on these blunders with gratitude, because they gave me the wisdom needed to move beyond the theory of agile and really get results.

And I've distilled what I've learned into the fastest most effective way to earn the ICP-APM certification.

ZERO RISK MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

If you didn't feel like this course was worth every penny, we'll happily refund you - no questions asked.

You can start the course when you're ready and move through the content as fast or as slow as you like.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Prior to taking this course, we recommend that you have a basic grasp of agile ways of working, including methods like Scrum. 

If you don't, check out our Agile Foundations course.

FOREVER! With your registration you'll get lifetime access to the full course content in including new lesson, tools and other course enhancements.

Once you've registered you'll get instant access to all of the lessons online via any computer or mobile device.

You can access Agile Project Management and Kanban Essentials through the My Dashboard link in the header. 

Send an email to [email protected]. 

We are pretty quick to respond. 

Once you've purchased the course you'll instantly get access to all the assets in Toolkit+. 

Simply click the Toolkit link in the header. 

Yes, your registration includes everything required to earn the ICP-APM certification.

Learners can claim 16 PDUs. Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a KaiRise final assessment. 

Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third party providers” category. 

Students of KaiRise courses are able to claim SEUs after completing all of the lessons in the program. For the Agile Project Management (ICP-APM), learners can claim 16 (sixteen) SEUs. Students can claim SEUs under the Scrum Alliances's "Learning" category. SEUs can be claimed online at https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/scrum-education-units

Agile Project Management concludes with a multiple choice quiz. The quiz is embedded in the course itself, you will not need to go anywhere else to take it. There are no time restrictions for completing the quiz. You can attempt the quiz as many times as you like. Questions are drawn from quizzes in preceding lessons. Your passing score must be 80% or higher to receive the certification. Learners may attempt the exam multiple times to achieve a passing score.

That's the beauty of a self-paced course, you can move through it at whatever speed works best for you. We've seen determined learners finish the course in a day. But most learners prefer to spread the course out over 3-5 days, working a few hours each day. 

No, the fundamentals are not covered in this course. 

The Agile Project Management course assumes that you have a basic grasp of  agile ways of working including methods like Scrum. 

If you don't, check out our Agile Foundations course.

The problem with instructor-led courses is that you're not in control. You have to learn at the instructor's pace and you have no ability to go back and refresh yourself on the material after the class ended. 

With our course, you can complete the lessons when it's most relevant to your work and go back and review whenever you need to. 

By integrating the learning into your flow of work, it becomes far more relevant, timely and effective.