PMIPMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification validates your ability to apply agile principles and practices across a range of methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP. It is designed for project practitioners who work on agile teams or in agile environments and want to demonstrate their agile expertise. Earning the PMI-ACP shows you can lead agile projects with confidence and adapt to changing requirements.
641 practice questions
4Domains
24Objectives
127Concepts
641Questions
PMI-ACP Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the PMI-ACP exam measures.
- Incremental Product Validation
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Feedback Loops
- Innovation Environment
- Fail-Fast Mindset
- Continuous Learning Culture
- Agile Values and Principles
- Complexity Theory Systems
- Application and Risks of Complexity Frameworks
- Agile Suitability Tools
- Integrating Agile Models
- Establishing Team Vision
- Creating Working Agreements
- Forming a High-Performing Team
- Developing Team Performance
- Using Retrospectives for Improvement
- Breaking Down Silos
- Committing to Team Decisions
- Evaluating Agile Understanding
- Determining Inter-Team Coordination
- Information Radiators
- Transparency of Status and Progress
- Transparency of Process and Risks
- Transparency of Learning
- Feedback Loops
- Communication Strategies for Co-located Teams
- Communication Strategies for Distributed Teams
- No-blame culture
- Objective analysis of failures
- Dialogue vs. debate
- Facilitating constructive dialogue
- Constructive feedback principles
- Soliciting feedback
- Acting on feedback
- Challenging the status quo
- Safe environment for dissent
- Stakeholder inclusion from day one
- Value maximization under time constraints
- Feedback loop shortening techniques
- Design thinking for feedback
- Lean startup for feedback
- Growth Mindset
- Embracing Change
- Cross-Skilling
- Learning and Feedback Adaptation
- Establishing Trust
- Motivating Team Members
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Promoting Collective Ownership
- Training vs Coaching vs Mentoring
- Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
- Interpreting Non-Verbal Cues
- Using Self-Assessment Tools
- Root Cause Analysis
- Ishikawa Diagram
- Value-Based Resolution Strategies
- Timely Problem Resolution
- Creating a Knowledge-Sharing Environment
- Leveraging Organizational Knowledge Assets
- Allocating Time for Knowledge Sharing
- Agile values and principles awareness
- Promoting agile mindset
- Creating awareness strategies
- Continuous improvement culture
- Retrospective facilitation
- Encouraging experimentation
- Recognizing agile behavior
- Celebrating agile achievements
- Encouraging agile behavior
- Root Cause Analysis
- Conflict Levels
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Clarify backlog items
- Prioritize backlog with stakeholders
- Decompose backlog items
- Collective sizing techniques
- Aligning increments with business priorities
- Defining increment goals
- Demonstrating increments of value for early feedback
- Measuring the delivery of value
- Visualization techniques
- Visualization benefits
- Process for updating data
- Data accuracy and timeliness
- Continuous information sharing
- Feedback and adaptation
- Defining Value
- Optimizing Value Increments
- Achieving Targeted Results
- Evaluating customer satisfaction
- Delivering work in small increments
- Collecting stakeholder feedback regularly
- Audience-appropriate metric selection
- Metric radiation techniques
- Metric review and analysis
- Metrics-driven decision making
- Proactive Risk and Impediment Identification
- Team Engagement for Course of Action
- Prioritization of Impediment Removal and Risk Mitigation
- Monitoring and Controlling Risks and Impediments
- Leveraging Lessons Learned for Prevention
- Value-added vs. non-value-added activities
- End-to-end value stream mapping
- Waste identification metrics
- Waste identification tools
- Feedback loops for waste detection
- Prioritizing waste reduction
- Iterative waste reduction
- Metrics and feedback collection
- Improvement action implementation
- Effectiveness evaluation of improvements
- Customer Identification
- Needs Analysis
- Acceptance Criteria Definition
- Deliverable Validation
- Customer Collaboration
- WIP limits
- Kanban board visualization
- Queue theory basics
- Interruption shielding
- Team interfaces
- Flow metrics
- Cumulative flow diagrams
- Flow analysis
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