This is in continuation of the following post:
Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) Online Course
There are a number of questions raised by Scaled Agile practitioners on the new Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) Online Course, from ManagementYogi. Here, I’ve tried to address as many top and important questions as I can.
If you have any other questions, please send a mail to managementyogi@gmail.com.
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Question – 1: What are the applicability and validity of this course?
Answer: This course has a duration of 3 or 6 months, from the date of purchase. The price of the course is $119 USD (or Rs 9,549) for 3 months access and $219 USD (or Rs 17,549) for 6 months access.
This is one of the lowest priced Scaled Agile certification courses in the world. You can make your search. And the course comes with high quality.
This course also comes with a full money-back guarantee, without any tricky terms and conditions (T&C). These T&Cs are mostly useless to you.
Question – 2: What is full money-back guarantee for the CIPSA certification course?
Answer: The premise is simple for the full money-back guarantee.
You have six (or three) months and two attempts, both free of cost, to clear the CIPSA exam. Give the exam and clear the exam. Be a CIPSA. You WIN.
If you can’t, I’ll refund your full money. You still WIN because you’ve the entire content free of cost for 6 (or 3) months! This is another WIN for you.
It's also not mandatory to give the exam. But it's a good idea to give it.
In effect, the guarantee is for the entire course duration. You've literally nothing to lose with the CIPSA course, but only to gain.
Full Money-Back Guarantee Video (No T&C!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBd-vHOlR8
Question – 3: What is the total duration of the CIPSA course?
Answer: The course is over 11 hours of video duration. The course is primarily in video format. It also has a number of .MPP files and quizzes. It has been divided into 11 (+1) individual lessons. In total, there are 153 videos and 82 exercise files.
Considering all the files and one full length Q&A set, the duration will be over 20 hours. You can complete in 6 or 3 months with your own revisions and practices.
For more details: Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) Online Course
Question – 4: What is the certification offered by the CIPSA course?
Answer: This course comes with an end-exam with a set of 40 questions, which covers both theory and practical areas of Scaled Agile Management. To clear the CIPSA exam, you need at least an 80% score. Questions’ standard will be high and high-quality. Most of the questions will be real-world scenario driven.
The exam will be online and your score will be shown to you immediately. The detailed answers (both correct and incorrect) will be also be available to you.
With completion of the course and clearing of the end course exam, you will receive the unique and powerful credential: Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA).
Question – 5: What are the pre-requisites for this certification course?
Answer: There are two prerequisites for this certification course:
- Basic understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Basics of Project Management
- Basic understanding of MS Project with its Agile features
There are no pre-requisites with respect to Scaling in Agile. You need not have any experience with Scaled Agile. This course covers the CIPSA framework in detail. It also covers the needed team-level Scrum and Kanban, and then goes for full-fledged scaling.
This course is about Scaled Scrum and Scaled Kanban management. You will learn in-depth what they are about.
There is also no pre-requisite to learn scaling features of MS Project Agile. You’ll learn with the course.
Question – 6: CIPSA certification uses MS Project Agile software tool. Can any other software tool be used?
Answer: Yes. The fundamental concepts remain the same with respect to the CIPSA framework, which is a very simple framework. Any software which supports Scaling features such as Scrum or Kanban Team Scaling, Scrum Board Scaling, Cross-team Backlog Management, Single or Multi-Sprint or Multi-Release Management, Integrated Burndown/Burnup Charts, Multi-Team Tracking etc. can be used.
More scaling features: https://www.managementyogi.com/p/certified-in-practical-scaled-agile.html
Question – 7: Why should I go for the CIPSA certification course? What are the benefits?
Answer: To know more on the key benefits of this course, you can watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexaPI20Jhw
The above video outlines a number of course benefits.
Question – 8: How is it different from other Scaled Agile certifications?
Answer: There are two key areas:
- Hands-on and practical (70%) with theory (30%)
- Scales both team-level Scrum and team-level Kanban
Other Scaled Agile certifications do not have these two. Not even a single one of them. They are theory and more theory. And most of them use just one team-level framework, e.g., Scrum, which is unlike CIPSA which uses both Scrum and Kanban.
Question – 9: The CIPSA certification is not very well-known like other Scaled Agile certifications. Why should I go for it?
Answer: Here is a question to you:
Will you prefer a doctor who has a degree in theory but lacks practical experience, or a doctor who is involved in real-time practices and has practical experience?
You know the answer!
All Scaled Agile certifications (yes, all of them!) are theoretical in nature. You’ll find theory, theory and more theory. The CIPSA certification course, on the other hand, is in-depth, both in theory and practical. You’ll know various aspects of Scaled Scrum or Scaled Kanban management in a practical, hands-on manner.
For your career prospects and new opportunities imagine telling your prospective employers that you know scaling in a hands-on manner. Not only that, you can demonstrate those aspects to them, too!
In addition, you’re productive in your organization using scaling from the very beginning.
Question – 10: Are there any continuing certification requirements like earning more professional units, or making payments every few years?
Answer: No. There is no renewal fee for this course. There are also no perpetual payment schemes. Also, as noted the CIPSA end course exams (both attempts) are free of cost.
You will get the credential one-time and it’ll continue to remain valid.
Question – 11: Are there any PDUs or SEUs offered by this course?
Answer: Yes. You can claim up-to 16 PDUs (in different PDU categories) or SEUs with the completion of this course and earning the Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) credential. You can claim an equivalent number of SEUs as well. These can help you to maintain your other credentials such as PfMP, PMP, RMP, ACP, Scrum Master or Product Owner certifications.
Question - 12: Is there any detailed course index for this course? Not just a few lines, but the entire course index.
Answer: Yes. You can see the entire course index. To see the complete course content and index, you can refer the below link:
Certified In Practical Scaled Agile with MS Project Online Course
You can also directly check the content in below link:
Course Content for CIPSA Certification
Note: You can not only check the complete index, you can also check 20 videos before purchasing the course.
Question - 13: Why I should opt for this online course, instead of classroom Scaled Agile training?
Answer: As a matter of fact, there is no such practical course worldwide, which combines both theory and practical. Hence, no one can provide this training to you.
The other aspect is online learning. Online learning is having the following positive aspects:
- Convenient - you can learn at your own time at your own pace. You can watch the content as many times as you want.
- Longer duration – 3 or 6 months of duration (not just 2 or 4 days of training)
- Low cost - much lower than classroom training
In fact, most don’t know how to perform Scaling in Agile with a real-world hands-on tool. So again, they can’t provide such training, learning, and certification.
Question - 14: Why should I go with Management Yogi, compared to others?
Answer: Indeed, there are many providers who provide Scaled Agile certifications and training. Each of them also claims to preparing:
Agilist in Scaling, Master in Scaled Agile, Master in Scaled Scrum and so on.
But the reality is no one becomes an “Agilist” or a “Master” in anything in just 2- or 4-days of training.
As you would know, it takes time to learn and get mastery. More importantly, you should have the ability to apply your theoretical understanding with a hands-on, practical tool. Few providers, if at all, can claim to provide that. Many, in fact, don’t know how to do scaling in the real-world.
This course is of long-duration, has needed theory, in-depth and hands-on practical with respect to Scaling. It’s followed by an end-course exam, which thoroughly evaluates your understanding. Hence, with the CIPSA certification, you have a much deeper learning.
Question - 15: Will there be any support if any questions arise during the learning of CIPSA certification course?
Answer: Yes, definitely. Please send an email to managementyogi@gmail.com and your questions will be answered within 3 working days or 72 hours.
You also have a chance to meet me face-to-face on many occasions. In fact, for ManagementYogi’s CHAMP certification, I meet most of the CHAMP aspirants face-to-face and it’s based on their needs. I take and address all their questions.
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If you have any other questions or clarifications, please send a mail to managementyogi@gmail.com. If this course has those features, I’ll inform you with all the details. If it does not, then also, you will be clearly informed. There won’t be any round-about answers or marketing gimmicks.
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