Accreditations List

Requirements to receive a AD-AOE:

In a one-on-one or small group 1.5 hours (per person) accreditation interview your Accreditor will require you to:

• Demonstrate at least 4 years of practice (or 2 years if the candidate has been mentored by a ACA Accredited Coach) working in an agile team and a profound understanding of what it means to build a product incrementally and with quality in mind.
• Answer 2 questions related to the role of an agile developer.
  Development
• Provide evidence on how you approach Test First and iterative design principles.
• Provide evidence on your efforts for Continuous Integration and an overall testing strategy.
• Provide one case study on how you bring quality in as individual, and as a team.
• Answer 1 question regarding customer collaboration.
• Provide evidence on how you establish early feedback loops.
• Provide evidence on sharing knowledge within the team.
• Provide one case study on how you enabled a culture of technical excellence in your company.
• Provide two case studies on how you guided teams to learn and grow.
• Share your self improvement goals as a developer.

Your accreditor will evaluate your candidacy, provide feedback and decide on your Accreditation of Practice based on his/her observations. Participating in an Accreditation interview does NOT guarantee the candidate to be accredited.

Requirements to receive a AD-AOK:

In a one-on-one or small group 1.5 hours (per person) accreditation interview your Accreditor will require you to:

• The candidate demonstrated at least 3 months of supervised experience working in an agile team and a profound understanding of what it means to build a product incrementally and with quality in mind, based on evidence including pictures and a written recommendation of a supervisor (AOE-AD) or at least 25 hour individual or group mentoring by a ACA Accredited Coach over a minimum of 1 month.
• Answer 2 questions related to the role of an agile developer.
  Development
• Provide evidence on how you approach Test First and iterative design principles.
• Provide evidence on your efforts for Continuous Integration and an overall testing strategy.
• Provide one case study on how you bring quality in as individual, and as a team.
• Answer 1 question regarding customer collaboration.
• Share your self improvement goals as a developer.

Your accreditor will evaluate your candidacy, provide feedback and decide on your Accreditation of Practice based on his/her observations. Participating in an Accreditation interview does NOT guarantee the candidate to be accredited.

Requirements to receive a AOP-AA:

• Demonstrate at least 2 years (or 1 year if the candidate has been mentored by a ACA Accredited Coach) of experience as an Advisor, Consultant and/or Coach in an organization (contract, pictures, written recommendations ..).
• Answer 2 questions related to Business Agility and the candidate answered in a way that demonstrated proficiency and deep knowledge.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement where you provided new information related to Agile to a client in a top management workshop.
• Provide evidence of at least 2 customer engagements where you helped solve a client’s problem enabling/supporting agility.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement where you made an documented diagnosis that led to a redefinition of the original problem.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement that involved making recommendations based on a documented diagnosis.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement where you assisted with the implementation of recommended solutions.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 facilitated conversation at a customer to build a consensus, make decisions and/or create commitment around a corrective action
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement that involved facilitating client learning in a multi-day training or workshop format—that is, teaching clients how to resolve similar problems in the future.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 customer engagement where you co-created with your customer a plan and/or process to ensure the customer to permanently improve organizational effectiveness without your future participation.
  Showcase 1 case study of a customer engagement involving advising an Organization or Area into enhanced Agility.
• Share your Agile toolbox and your self improvement goals as an Agile Advisor.

Requirements to receive an AL-AOP

In a one-on-one or small group 1 hour (per person) accreditation interview your Accreditor will require you to:

• Demonstrate at least 2 years (or 1 year if the candidate has been mentored by a ACA Accredited Coach) of experience as a leader and/or change agent in an organization (contract, pictures, written recommendations ..).
• Answer 2 questions related to Business Agility and the candidate answered in a way that demonstrated proficiency and deep knowledge.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 cultural shift in an organization that enables/supports agility influenced by him/her.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 org. structure change (formal or informal) that enables/supports agility influenced by him/her.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 process implementation in an organization that enables/supports agility influenced by him/her.
• Provide evidence of at least 1 team or area improvement process and its outcomes.
• Provide evidence of at least 2 individual improvement process and its outcomes.
• Showcase 1 case study of transforming an Organization or Area into enhanced Agility.
• Share your self improvement goals as a Leader.

Before issuing an accreditation of progress confirm that:

• You have personally worked with this team for at least 25 hours.
• You personally observed relevant progress towards increased agility in this team.
• You collected enough evidence to showcase the before and after scenarios presenting a relevant case study of the team’s Scrum Implementation.
• <Recommended> You collected evidence of at least 5 people holding a valid Agile credential (examples are: Agile Coaches Alliance Accredited Scrum Master or Product Owner at any level (Accreditation of Practical Knowledge, Accreditation of Practice, or Accreditation of Excellence.
• <Alternative> Certified ScrumMaster CSM® Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO® or Certified Agile Leadership CAL by the Scrum Alliance, Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM II / PSM III), Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO II / PSPO III) by Scrum.org).