Certified - PMI-ACP Audio Course

Episode 20 — Tailoring: Evaluating Team Understanding to Adapt the Approach

This episode emphasizes that agility requires tailoring practices to fit context rather than applying them rigidly. Candidates learn how to evaluate a team’s maturity, ex

Episode 19 — Decision Discipline: Committing to Team Decisions Amid Disagreement

This session tackles the challenge of decision-making within agile teams, especially when consensus is difficult. Learners explore how structured techniques such as fist

Episode 18 — Collaboration Practices: Breaking Down Organizational Silos

In this episode, learners examine how agile teams succeed by prioritizing cross-functional collaboration over siloed roles. The session reviews techniques for fostering c

Episode 17 — Retrospectives: Using Findings to Improve the Team

This session explores retrospectives as the heartbeat of continuous improvement in agile practice. The episode reviews common retrospective formats and techniques, from s

Episode 16 — Team Development: Forming and Developing High-Performing Teams

The focus here is on the dynamics of team development, with Tuckman’s model—forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning—serving as the anchor. The episode expl

Episode 15 — Team Foundations: Establish Vision and Working Agreements

This episode explores how high-performing agile teams are built on a foundation of shared vision and explicit working agreements. Learners discover how vision statements

Episode 14 — Agile Models: Integrating Methods by Use Case and Context

This session reviews the range of agile models—Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean, and hybrid approaches—and explains when and how each is most effective. Cand

Episode 13 — Suitability Tools: Interpreting Agile Fit Assessments

This episode introduces the various tools available to assess whether agile practices are suitable for a given project or environment. Candidates learn how suitability as

Episode 12 — Complexity Thinking: Importance and Risks by Classification

Building on the prior episode, this session dives deeper into the consequences of misclassifying work within complexity models. Learners explore the risks of applying ove

Episode 11 — Complexity Thinking: Classifying Scenarios with CAS, Stacey, and Cynefin

This episode introduces learners to the importance of complexity thinking in agile environments, where uncertainty, emergence, and unpredictability often challenge linear

Episode 10 — Agile Mindset: Values and Principles in Practice

This episode deepens the conversation on agile mindset by revisiting the four values and twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto. Rather than reciting them, the discussi

Episode 9 — Experiment Early: Create an Environment to Innovate, Learn, and Grow

Following on the prior episode, this discussion shifts focus from building increments to cultivating the environment that makes experimentation sustainable. Psychological

Episode 8 — Experiment Early: Build an Increment to Validate Need

This episode explores the agile principle of building early increments to test assumptions and validate real customer need. Listeners are introduced to the concept of min

Episode 7 — Domain 1 Mindset: Overview

This episode introduces the first PMI-ACP domain, Mindset, providing a structured overview of why mindset anchors all agile practice. The discussion opens by exploring ag

Episode 6 — Glossary Deep Dive III: Metrics, Flow, and Quality Vocabulary

The final glossary deep dive in this series introduces terminology related to metrics, flow, and quality. Terms such as lead time, cycle time, work-in-progress, throughpu

Episode 5 — Glossary Deep Dive II: Product and Delivery Vocabulary

This glossary session turns to product and delivery-focused terminology, clarifying words and phrases that appear in backlogs, planning, and iterative development discuss

Episode 4 — Glossary Deep Dive I: Mindset and Leadership Vocabulary

This session begins the first of several glossary deep dives that strengthen candidates’ command of the agile vocabulary essential for the PMI-ACP exam. The focus here is

Episode 3 — Eligibility and Application & Exam Day Logistics

Here, the spotlight turns to the practical steps every candidate must complete before sitting for the PMI-ACP exam. The eligibility requirements are broken down in detail

Episode 2 — Study System & Time Management: Spaced Repetition, Active Recall, and Practice Exams, Pacing, Breaks, and Review Strategy

This episode focuses on building a personalized study system designed to maximize memory retention and performance under exam conditions. Candidates learn how spaced repe

Episode 1 — PMI-ACP at a Glance: Format, Item Types, and Scoring

This opening episode introduces the PMI-ACP certification exam and explains how it differs from other professional credentials in the project and program management space