PMI-ACP – Agile Tools & Techniques AND Knowledge & Skills (TTKS)
To pass PMI-ACP you need to know the requirements of the PMI-ACP exam outline. In the exam, you will be tested 50% on Tools & Techniques and 50% on Knowledge & Skills. This post includes high level information of all the requirements.
[wc_highlight color=”red”]10 AGILE TOOLS & TECHNIQUES MATRIX[/wc_highlight]
[wc_highlight color=”red”]3 LEVELs OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS[/wc_highlight]
Level 1 (65%)
40 questions |
Level 2 (25%)
14 questions |
Level 3 (10%)
6 questions |
1. Active listening
2. Agile manifesto
3. Agile principles
4. Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
5. Agile brainstorming techniques
6. Building empowered teams
7. Coaching and mentoring within teams
8. Agile communications management
9. Feedback techniques for product (e.g., prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)
11. Incremental delivery
12. Agile knowledge sharing
13. Agile leadership tools and techniques
14. Prioritization
15. Agile problem-solving strategies, tools and techniques
16. Project and quality standards for Agile projects
17. Stakeholder management
18. Agile team motivation
19. Time, budget and cost estimation
20. Value-based decomposition and prioritization |
1. Agile frameworks and terminology
2. Building high-performance teams
3. Agile business case development
4. Collocation (geographic proximity)/distributed teams
5. Agile continuous improvement processes
6. Elements of a project charter for an Agile project
7. Agile facilitation methods
8. Agile participatory decision models (e.g., input-based, shared collaboration, command)
9. PMI’s code of ethics and professional conduct
10. Process analysis techniques
11. Self-assessment
12. Value-based analysis |
1. Agile contracting methods
2. Agile project accounting principles
3. Applying new Agile practices
4. Compliance (organization)
5. Regulatory compliance
6. Agile failure modes and alternatives
7. Globalization, culture, and team diversity
8. Agile innovation games
9. Principles of systems thinking (e.g., complex adaptive, chaos)
10. Control limits for Agile projects
11. Variance and trend analysis
12. Variations in Agile methods and approaches
13. Vendor management |
[wc_highlight color=”red”]Agile Tools & Techniques AND Knowledge & Skills Mapping[/wc_highlight]
Good luck on the exam!