Introduction to the PMI-ACP Exam

• Recognizing key Agile developments and definitions
• Applying the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
• Mapping tools, techniques, knowledge and skills to PMI’s six domains of Agile development

Implementing Value-Driven Delivery

• Focusing on business value
  • Defining and prioritizing features in terms of user and stakeholder value
  • Leveraging rapid feedback cycles

• Ensuring progressive elaboration of requirements
  • Identifying Minimally Marketable Features for release planning
  • Sharpening the requirements definition by agreeing on the Definition of Done

Maintaining Stakeholder Engagement

• Engaging empowered business stakeholders
  • Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
  • Promoting effective collaboration and participation

• Communicating progress to help the organization make informed decisions

• • Enabling knowledge sharing
  • Building trust and managing expectations through shared success criteria

Boosting Team Performance Practices

• Forming cross-functional teams
  • Establishing collaborative behaviors through group decision-making
  • Influencing teams to design their own internal work processes

• Empowering teams to self-organize
  • Encouraging teams to estimate and track project progress
  • Creating safe environments for experimentation

• Developing high performance teams
  • Raising productivity by eliminating waste
  • Coaching styles that foster skill enhancement

Implementing Adaptive Planning

• Planning at multiple levels
  • Applying rolling wave planning
  • Leveraging progressive elaboration

• Employing empirical planning
  • Balancing priorities and team capabilities
  • Coaching the team to adjust cadences based on situational awareness

• Applying Agile Earned Value Measurement (EVM)
  • Refining estimate ranges to reflect uncertainty
  • Capturing measures of accepted work delivered in a specified time frame
  • Controlling costs through quantitative measures

Problem Detection and Resolution

• Recognizing and mitigating risks

• • Time Boxing to focus on immediate issues
  • Engaging the team proactively to identify risks and create mitigation strategies
  • Ensuring impediments are resolved and stakeholder expectations are adjusted

• Communicating risks and impediments
  • Maintaining visibility with burndown charts, value stream mapping and Kanban boards
  • Managing features and technical issues with Backlog

Facilitating Continuous Improvement

• Tailoring the process

• • Conducting retrospectives to improve the team’s behavior
  • Experimenting with new techniques and process ideas

• Evaluating work efficiency

• • Removing nonvalue-adding processes
  • Reducing Work In Progress (WIP)