Acing the PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)

As we continue to navigate #value delivery for self, our #customers and the #society to achieve our #missions today and tomorrow in the fast paced and changing environments, got a moment to run my agile capability through the lens of the #PMI-ACP.

Truly liked the practicality of the exam which reflects the real-life scenarios in our day-to-day spaces, the choices we've got to make to steer ourselves, teams and organizations to stay on course in achieving our goals. Let's be more #agile. From my view, readiness for the exam may involve:

1. #selfawareness, honestly assess where you're starting from to enable fair estimation of the effort you may require preparing; everyone's path may be different. This may inform your instructional design considerations, whether you need to do purposeful self-study or to join committed study groups or to attend reputable online/in person instructor led trainings or just a working combination.

2. #Practise with relevant mock exams, free or paid or both, to keep correct pace with the time, the variations in question framings, and the endurance to sit for the exam non-stop. Take duty of care on the material you reference as the depth, quality, applicability to recommended practices, and overall fitness of purpose of some content may be way off either from the start or possibly outdated.

3. Suitable experience counts as you've to apply yourself to the presented scenarios and determine the most appropriate option. I haven't gone through a #book (there may be) that will prepare you so well for guaranteed success.

4. Focus on how the different #domains interlink to?deliver progressive value more than on complex #computation, memory of/definitions of/comparison of terms and patterns save for own #knowledge.

5. The exam outline content walkthrough is helpful to?think through how that reflects in your knowledgebase and experience.

Special thanks to those who make free, relevant, updated content available for quick reference. In this case notably:

Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM; the free 3 mock exam simulation of 20 questions each https://lnkd.in/dPejRyQi

Edward Chung for the great summaries, https://lnkd.in/dNnNQwqp

Simplilearn for the free 120 questions mock exam, https://lnkd.in/dtRytV9W

Stellex Group for the cheat sheet https://lnkd.in/dyi3vzQ3

Final thanks to colleagues, friends, teams and organizations I have worked with over time, through which experiences I've built the competence to ace the exam.

If interested on some insights on the getting set for the PMP: https://bit.ly/3NtMEut