PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

Explore, embrace, and apply Agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization.

• Advocate for agile principles by modeling those principles and discussing agile values.
• Ensure that people on the team and stakeholders share a common understanding of agile values.
• Support change at the system or organizational level to enhance agility.
• Practice visualization and transparency to build trust.
• Create a safe environment for experimentation and failure.

Deliver valuable results by producing high-value increments for review, early and often.

• Define positive value in the context of the project.
• Prioritize units of work (MoSCoW, Kano, ROI) to maximize value delivery.
• Deliver increments incrementally to gain early feedback.
• Perform frequent verification and validation (V&V) of the product.
• Solicit customer feedback to confirm value realization.

Engage current and future interested parties by building a trusting environment that aligns their needs and expectations.

• Identify and analyze stakeholders (Personas, Wireframes).
• Establish collaborative behaviors and foster group decision making.
• Communicate project status transparently (Information Radiators).
• Engage stakeholders in refining requirements and backlog.

Create an environment of trust, learning, collaboration, and conflict resolution that promotes team self-organization.

• Cooperate to form a self-organizing and cross-functional team.
• Create team norms and ground rules (Team Charter).
• Empower team members to make decisions.
• Facilitate close communication (Colocation, Osmotic communication).

Produce and maintain an evolving plan, from initiation to closure, based on goals, values, risks, constraints, and feedback.

• Plan at multiple levels (Strategic, Release, Iteration, Daily).
• Use progressive elaboration and rolling wave planning.
• Estimate work using relative sizing (Story Points, Planning Poker).
• Adapt the plan based on velocity and feedback (Burn-down/Burn-up charts).

Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve them in a timely manner.

• Create an open environment to detect problems (Daily Stand-ups).
• Identify and track threats and issues (Risk Burndown, Risk Adjusted Backlog).
• Resolve issues and reset expectations.

Continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of the product, the process, and the people.

• Tailor and adapt the process to fit the project context.
• Conduct frequent retrospectives to identify improvements.
• Perform value stream analysis to remove waste.