| Domain I. Agile Principles and Mindset |
16% |
- Task 1 Advocate for agile principles by modeling those principles and discussing agile values in order to developashared mindset across the teamas well asbetween the customer and the team.
- Task 2 Help ensure that everyone has a common understanding of the values and principles of agile and a common knowledge around the agile practices and terminology being used in order to work effectively.
- Task 3 Support change at the system or organization levelby educating the organization and influencing processes, behaviors, and people in order to make the organization more effective and efficient.
- Task 4 Practice visualization by maintaining highly visible information radiators showing real progress and real team performance in order to enhance transparency and trust.
- Task 5 Contribute to a safe and trustful team environment by allowing everyone to experiment and make mistakes so that each can learn and continuously improve the way he or she works.
- Task 6 Enhance creativitybyexperimentingwith new techniques and process ideas in order to discover more efficient and effective ways of working.
- Task 7 Encourage team members to share knowledge by collaborating and working together in order to lower risks around knowledge silosandreduce bottlenecks.
- Task 8 Encourage emergent leadership within the team by establishing a safe and respectful environment in which new approaches can be tried in order to make improvements and foster self-organization and empowerment.
- Task 9 Practice servant leadership by supporting and encouraging others in their endeavors so that they can perform at their highest leveland continue to improve.
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| Domain II. Value-driven Delivery |
20% |
Define Positive Value
- Task 1 Define deliverables by identifying units that can be produced incrementally in order to maximize their value to stakeholders while minimizing non-value added work.
- Task 2 Refine requirements by gaining consensus on the acceptance criteria for features on a just-in-time basis in order todeliver value.
- Task 3 Selectand tailor the team’s process based on project and organizational characteristics as well as team experience in order to optimize value delivery.
Avoid Potential Downsides
- Task 4 Plan for small releasable increments by organizing requirements into minimally marketable features/minimally viable products in order to allow for the early recognition and delivery of value.
- Task 5 Limit increment size and increase review frequencywith appropriate stakeholders in order to identify and respond to risks early on and at minimal cost.
- Task 6 Solicit customer and user feedback by reviewing increments often in order to confirm and enhance business value.
Prioritization
- Task 7 Prioritize the units of work through collaboration with stakeholders in order to optimize the value of the deliverables.
- Task 8 Perform frequent review and maintenanceof the work resultsby prioritizing and maintaining internal quality in order to reduce the overall cost of incremental development.
- Task 9 Continuously identify and prioritize the environmental, operational, and infrastructure factors in order to improve the quality and value of the deliverables.
Incremental Development
- Task 10 Conduct operational reviews and/or periodic checkpoints with stakeholders in order toobtain feedback and corrections to the work in progress and planned work.
- Task 11 Balance development of deliverable units and risk reduction efforts by incorporating both value producing and risk reducing work into the backlogin order to maximize the total value proposition over time.
- Task 12 Re-prioritize requirements periodically in order to reflect changes in the environment and stakeholder needs or preferencesin order to maximize the value.
- Task 13 Elicit and prioritize relevant non-functional requirements (such as operations and security) by considering the environment in which the solution will be used in order to minimize the probability of failure.
- Task 14 Conduct frequent reviews of work products by performing inspections, reviews, and/or testing in order to identify and incorporate improvements into the overall process andproduct/service.
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| Domain III. Stakeholder Engagement |
17% |
Understand Stakeholder Needs
- Task 1 Identify and engage effective and empowered businessstakeholder(s)through periodic reviews in order to ensure that the team is knowledgeable about stakeholders’ interests, needs, and expectations.
- Task 2 Identify and engage all stakeholders (current and future) by promoting knowledge sharing early and throughout the project to ensure the unimpeded flow ofinformation andvalue throughout the lifespan of the project.
Ensure Stakeholder Involvement
- Task 3 Establish stakeholder relationships by forming a working agreement among key stakeholders in order to promote participation and effective collaboration.
- Task 4 Maintain proper stakeholder involvement by continually assessing changes in the project and organization in order to ensure that new stakeholders are appropriately engaged.
- Task 5 Establish collaborative behaviors among the members of the organization by fostering group decision making and conflict resolution in order to improve decision quality and reduce the time required to make decisions.
Manage Stakeholder Expectations
- Task 6 Establish a shared vision of the various project increments (products, deliverables, releases, iterations) by developing a high level vision and supporting objectivesin order to align stakeholders’ expectations and build trust.
- Task 7 Establish and maintain a shared understanding of success criteria, deliverables,and acceptable trade-offs by facilitating awareness among stakeholders in order to align expectations and build trust.
- Task 8 Provide transparency regarding work status by communicating team progress, work quality, impediments, and risks in order to help the primary stakeholders make informed decisions.
- Task 9 Provideforecastsat a level of detail that balances the need for certainty and the benefits of adaptability in order to allow stakeholders to plan effectively.
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| Domain IV. Team Performance |
16% |
TeamFormation
- Task 1 Cooperate with the other team members to devise ground rules and internal processes in order to foster team coherence and strengthen team members’ commitment to shared outcomes.
- Task 2 Help create ateam that has the inter personal and technical skills needed to achieve all known project objectives in order to create business value with minimal delay.
Team Empowerment
- Task 3 Encourage team members to become generalizing specialists in order to reduce team size and bottlenecks, and to create a high-performingcross-functional team.
- Task 4 Contribute to self-organizing the work by empowering others and encouraging emerging leadership in order to produce effective solutions and manage complexity.
- Task 5 Continuously discover team and personal motivators and de-motivators in order to ensure that teammorale is high and team members are motivated and productive throughout the project.
Team Collaborationand Commitment
- Task 6 Facilitate close communication within the team and with appropriate external stakeholders through co-location or the use of collaboration tools in order to reduce miscommunication and rework.
- Task 7 Reduce distractions in order to establish a predictable outcome and optimize the value delivered.
- Task 8 Participate in aligning project and team goals by sharing project vision in order to ensure the team understands how their objectives fit into the overall goals of the project.
- Task 9 Encourage the team to measure its velocity by tracking and measuring actual performance in previous iterations or releases in order for members to gain a better understanding of their capacity and create more accurate forecasts.
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| Domain V. Adaptive Planning |
12% |
Levels of Planning
- Task 1 Plan at multiple levels (strategic, release, iteration, daily) creating appropriate detail by using rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration to balance predictability of outcomes with ability to exploit opportunities.
- Task 2 Make planning activities visible and transparent by encouraging participation of key stakeholders and publishing planningresults in order to increase commitment level and reduce uncertainty.
- Task 3 As the project unfolds, set and manage stakeholder expectations by making increasingly specific levels of commitments in order to ensure common understanding of the expected deliverables.
Adaptation
- Task 4 Adapt the cadence and the planning process based on results of periodic retrospectives about characteristics and/or the size/complexity/criticality of the project deliverables in order to maximize the value.
- Task 5 Inspect and adapt the project plan to reflect changes in requirements, schedule, budget, and shifting priorities based on team learning, delivery experience, stakeholder feedback, and defects in order to maximize business value delivered.
Agile Sizing and Estimation
- Task 6 Size items by using progressive elaboration techniques in order to determine likely project size independent of team velocity and external variables.
- Task 7 Adjust capacity by incorporating maintenance and operations demandsand other factorsin order to create or update the range estimate.
- Task 8 Createinitial scope, schedule,and cost range estimates thatreflect current high level understanding of the effort necessary to deliver the project in order to develop a starting point for managing the project.
- Task 9 Refine scope, schedule,and cost range estimates thatreflect the latest understanding of the effort necessary to deliver the project in order to manage the project.
- Task 10 Continuously use data from changes in resource capacity, project size,and velocity metrics in order to evaluatethe estimate to complete.
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| Domain VI. Problem Detection and Resolution |
10% |
- Task 1 Create an open and safe environmentby encouraging conversation and experimentation, in order to surface problems and impediments that are slowing the team down or preventing its ability to deliver value.
- Task 2 Identify threats and issues by educatingand engagingthe team at various points in the project in order to resolve them at the appropriate time and improve processes that caused issues.
- Task 3 Ensure issues are resolved by appropriate team membersand/or reset expectations in light of issues that cannot be resolved in order to maximize the value delivered.
- Task 4 Maintain a visible,monitored, and prioritized list of threatsand issues in order to elevate accountability, encourage action, and track ownership and resolution status.
- Task 5 Communicate status of threatsand issuesby maintaining threatlist and incorporating activities into backlog of work in order toprovide transparency.
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| Domain VII. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People) |
9% |
- Task 1 Tailor and adapt the project process by periodically reviewing and integrating team practices, organizational culture, and delivery goals in order to ensure team effectiveness within established organizational guidelines and norms.
- Task 2 Improve team processes by conducting frequent retrospectives and improvement experiments in order to continually enhance the effectiveness of the team, project, and organization.
- Task 3 Seek feedback on the product by incremental delivery and frequent demonstrations in order to improve the value of the product.
- Task 4 Create an environment of continued learning by providing opportunities for people to develop their skills in order to develop a more productive team of generalizing specialists.
- Task 5 Challenge existing process elements by performinga value stream analysis and removing waste in order to increase individual efficiency and team effectiveness.
- Task 6 Create systemic improvements by disseminating knowledge and practices across projects and organizational boundaries in order to avoid re-occurrence of identified problems and improve the effectiveness of the organization as a whole.
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| Official Information |
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https://www.pmi.org/certification/agile-management-acp.aspx |
