You can look up what Scrum is in ten minutes. The hard part comes before that: choosing an approach that will hold for this project, with these people, under these constraints, and defending that choice to someone who expected something else.
That is why these courses are not video libraries. Kai, the AI learning assistant, assesses every submission against a rubric set out in advance and sends it back if it is too thin, even when you push for sign-off.
How is this different from a video course?+–
The feedback. On a video platform you tick lessons off; here the exercises are marked. Kai, the AI learning assistant, marks each submission against a fixed rubric, states precisely what is missing and sends it back if it is too thin. Then there is the conversation practice: Kai plays roles with interests of their own — the sponsor who wants date and scope fixed at once, or the works council that pushes back — and the debrief afterwards shows you where the conversation turned. If Kai cannot answer a question, ask it in the course community: I usually reply within 24 hours.
Is there an online course on agile project management with a certificate of completion and no subscription?+–
Yes. “Choosing your agile approach” is an online course by Praxis by Agile Forge, in German and English, with a one-off payment instead of a subscription and no fixed term; access never expires and includes later updates. Kai marks the exercises against a fixed rubric. After completing the whole course you receive a certificate of completion with verification, not an exam certificate.
What do I walk away with?+–
Project documents you keep and can reuse as templates — depending on the course, a roles and responsibilities matrix, a prioritised backlog, a value stream map or an ROI calculation. Where it makes sense you build them on a project of your own; otherwise on the case project that runs through the course. Once you complete the course and give it an overall rating (1 to 5 stars), the platform also issues a personalised certificate of completion as a PDF.
Does this prepare me for the AgilePM® exam?+–
Only in part. In “Choosing your agile approach”, AgilePM is one of four frameworks; roles, phases, MoSCoW and timeboxing are covered in depth, but the exam syllabus is not what the course is built around. It is not an accredited course — you book the exam separately with an accredited provider. If the exam pass is all you are after, go straight to an accredited training organisation.
Who is this not for?+–
Three situations. If you only need a certificate for your personnel file, you are better off with an accredited exam provider. If you need fixed dates, a group and someone in the room, in-house training will serve you better than self-paced study. And if you are after a plain overview of the methods, you can find that for free — the effort here only pays off once you actually work through the exercises.
How much time should I set aside?+–
Any figure in hours would be a guess: you set the pace, and a marked exercise takes as long as your submission needs. What is certain is the scope, and it is listed against every course above — modules and lessons, counted rather than estimated. Access never expires and includes future updates; there is no fixed term and no subscription.
Will my invoice show VAT?+–
No. I trade under the German small-business rule (§ 19 UStG) and charge no VAT. The prices shown are final — for private buyers nothing changes. Business customers receive a proper invoice but cannot reclaim input tax from it. The same applies to orders from other EU countries.
What if the course is not right for me?+–
Then you get your money back. Within fourteen days of purchase, an email to info@agile-forge.com is enough; tell me briefly what was wrong — that is not a condition of the refund, it only helps me improve the course (§ 4 C of the terms). This is a voluntary promise: access is unlocked immediately after payment, which ends the statutory right of withdrawal, and you confirm this explicitly at checkout (§ 356 (5) German Civil Code). You can still look before you buy — every course has a complete preview lesson, no account and no payment needed.