PMI-ACP exam – Agile Coaching University

Resources for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam.

PMI-ACP examination preparation reference list :

Domains and Tasks
- Domain I : Agile Principles and Mindset
  - Explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization.
- Domain II : Value-Driven Delivery
  - Deliver valuable results by producing high-value Increments for Review, early and often, based on stakeholder priorities.
  - Have the stakeholders provide feedback on these Increments, and use this feedback to prioritize and improve future Increments.
- Domain III : Stakeholder Engagement
  - Engage current and future interested parties by building a trusting environment that aligns their needs and expectations and balances their requests with an understanding of the cost/effort involved.
  - Promote participation and collaboration throughout the project life cycle and provide the tools for effective and informed decision making.
- Domain IV : Team Performance
  - Create an environment of trust, learning, collaboration, and conflict resolution that promotes team self-organization, enhances relationships among team members, and cultivates a culture of high performance.
- Domain V : Adaptive Planning
  - Produce and maintain an evolving plan, from initiation to closure, based on goals, values, risks, constraints, stakeholder feedback, and review findings.
  - See Agile planning, monotoring and adapting
- Domain VI : Problem Detection and Resolution
  - Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve in a timely manner; monitor and communicate the problem resolution status; and implement process improvements to prevent them from occurring again.
  - See Agile Problem Solving
- Domain VII : Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People)
  - Continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of the product, the process, and the team.
Tools and Techniques (including but not limited to 🙂
- Agile analysis and design
- Agile estimation (and Agile estimation and contract)
- Agile communications
- Interpersonal skills (Agile and the soft skills negotiation)
- Agile metrics
- Agile planning, monotoring and adapting
- Process Improvement
- Agile and the product quality
- Agile and risk management
- Value-Based Prioritization
Knowledge and Skills (Each statement is preceded implicitly by Knowledge of or Skill in 🙂
- Agile values and principles
- Agile methods and approaches (Agile common frameworks or methodologies)
- Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
- Stakeholder management (Agile vendor management)
- Communication management (Agile communications)
- Facilitation methods
- Knowledge sharing/written communication
- Leadership (Lean-Agile Leadership (3 dimensions))
- Building agile teams (Scrum Team)
- Team motivation
- Physical and virtual co-location
- Global, cultural, and team diversity
- Training, coaching, and mentoring
- Developmental mastery models (for example, Tuckman, Dreyfus, Shu Ha Ri)
- Self-assessment tools and techniques
- Participatory decision models (for example, convergent, shared collaboration)
- Principles of systems thinking (for example, complex adaptive, chaos)
- Problem solving (Agile Problem Solving)
- Prioritization
  - Agile and the value based prioritization
  - MoSCoW prioritization
- Incremental delivery
- Agile discovery
- Agile sizing and estimation (Agile estimation)
- Value based analysis and decomposition
- Process analysis
- Continuous improvement
- Agile hybrid models
- Managing with agile KPIs
- Agile project chartering
  - Agile analysis and design
  - Agile and Crystal methodologies
- Agile contracting
  - Agile vendor management
  - Agile estimation and contract
- Agile project accounting principles
- Regulatory compliance
- PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
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