About DTMethod® Certification
Overview
DTMethod® Training and Certifications
Benefits of DTMethod® Certification
For Individuals
- Design better solutions through hands-on experience that reinforces creative problem-solving methods.
- Gain practical skills and confidence to contribute meaningfully during Design Thinking workshops and innovation sessions.
- Strengthen critical thinking and innovation skills by learning a structured, user-focused approach to solving complex challenges.
- Reduce uncertainty and confusion by clearly defining the time commitment and role expectations during Design Thinking activities.
- Increase motivation and engagement as ideas are recognized, tested, and incorporated into real project outcomes.
For Organizations
- Helps to reduce project risk by evaluating feasibility and alignment with business needs before major resources are committed.
- Lowers project costs through early stakeholder involvement— minimizing costly changes later in the development cycle.
- Ensures that products, services, and processes are rooted in real user needs and insights, boosting value metrics.
- Embeds innovation into daily workflows by integrating Design Thinking into existing project management practices.
- Strengthens internal capabilities through continuous improvement and customer-centered innovation.
Useful links
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Effectiveness of DTMethod
Documentation
Documentation
Study materials
Study materials
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DTMethod® Certification levels
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Videos
Videos
Tackling high project failure rates with Design Thinking
SFIA
This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.
knowledge
DTMethod® Foundation
Generic attribute Knowledge up to level 3, Business Situation Analysis up to level 3, Feasibility Assessment level 3
Same as above plus Business Situation Analysis level 4, Feasibility Assessment level 4, Systems Design level 4
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FAQs
Design Thinking is an approach to creating solutions. DTMethod® allows you to easily introduce Design Thinking into your organization and take advantage of this approach. Thanks to the use of Design Thinking in the pre-project phase (or during project management), teams design products, services and processes that have a positive impact on the stakeholders (including users) of these solutions. Those solutions have positive impacts on the functioning of the organization as well.
Find out more from DTMethod.
The core guidance for the DTMethod Foundation exams is the DTMethod: Designing Right Solutions manual, which is available to candidates who purchase the exam.
The Foundation examination is available in English and Polish.
The core guidance is available in English and Polish.
The Foundation course is delivered over 3 days.
No, the exam is closed book.
The DTMethod Foundation certification does not expire.
- Provisional results: After completing the Foundation examination, candidates may receive provisional results either orally from the invigilator or on-screen at the end of an online exam.
- Official results: Once processed, official results, including a PDF breakdown of marks by syllabus area, are available in the APMG Candidate Portal. Results are issued as the total number of marks achieved.
- Processing time: Exam papers are usually marked immediately after the exam. APMG formally processes and confirms results via the Candidate Portal within 2 working days of receiving completed papers.
- Outstanding payments: In exceptional cases, results may be withheld until full payment has been received.
Once you’ve been notified that you’ve passed your exam, you will have the option to create a digital badge in APMG's Candidate Portal.
Visit APMG's Candidate Portal, view your exam results and select 'Create Badge'.
This takes you to the Credly website where the digital badges are hosted. You will be guided through the Credly account creation process.
Once you have created an account with Credly, log into the account and accept your pending badge.
Candidates will be able to claim their digital badge and electronic certificate from the APMG Candidate Portal within two business days of their exam result being issued.