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Certified - PMI-ACP Audio Course

The PMI-ACP Audio Course is your complete, audio-first companion for mastering the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification. Designed for professionals who want structured, on-the-go learning, this Audio Course breaks down every domain of the PMI-ACP exam into 99 clear, practical, and scenario-based episodes. Each lesson explores agile mindset, leadership, stakeholder engagement, product delivery, team performance, metrics, and continuous

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28:04

Episode 20 — Tailoring: Evaluating Team Understanding...

Certified - PMI-ACP Audio Course ·

2025/09/08

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, experience, and understanding before adapting processes. The episode highlights the importance of coaching, gradual change, and experimentation as tailoring strategies.Practical examples show how overloading teams with advanced practices too soon can backfire, while incremental adaptation fosters confidence and growth. PMI

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Episode 19 — Decision Discipline: Committing to Team...

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2025/09/08

This session tackles the challenge of decision-making within agile teams, especially when consensus is difficult. Learners explore how structured techniques such as fist of five, Roman voting, and decision matrices help teams commit while preserving transparency. The episode stresses that decision discipline prevents paralysis and strengthens trust.Real-world examples demonstrate how teams can disagree without derailing progress, and how honoring collective decisions sustains

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27:51

Episode 18 — Collaboration Practices: Breaking Down...

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2025/09/08

In this episode, learners examine how agile teams succeed by prioritizing cross-functional collaboration over siloed roles. The session reviews techniques for fostering communication among developers, testers, product owners, and business stakeholders. Candidates are reminded that agile thrives when barriers are minimized and shared responsibility is emphasized.The episode also discusses how collaboration practices are tested on the PMI-ACP exam, often through scenarios where siloed

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Episode 17 — Retrospectives: Using Findings to...

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2025/09/08

This session explores retrospectives as the heartbeat of continuous improvement in agile practice. The episode reviews common retrospective formats and techniques, from start-stop-continue to more creative methods, explaining how they surface insights that drive adaptation. The discussion emphasizes psychological safety and facilitation skills as prerequisites for honest and productive reflection.Examples highlight how retrospective outcomes feed directly into backlog adjustments, working

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Episode 16 — Team Development: Forming and Developing...

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2025/09/08

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 explains how agile teams progress through these stages and what leaders and members can do to accelerate healthy development. Candidates also learn how trust, feedback, and conflict resolution practices fuel this progression.The episode emphasizes that PMI exam questions often reference these stages indirectly, testing whether

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27:06

Episode 15 — Team Foundations: Establish Vision and...

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2025/09/08

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 provide direction, create alignment, and inspire collaboration across diverse stakeholders. The session also examines how working agreements clarify expectations, reduce conflict, and enable teams to self-organize effectively. PMI emphasizes these foundations as essential to sustaining agility.Practical examples illustrate

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Episode 14 — Agile Models: Integrating Methods by Use...

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2025/09/08

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. Candidates are guided through the unique strengths of each framework, such as Scrum’s timeboxing, Kanban’s visualization, XP’s engineering practices, and Lean’s waste reduction. The episode stresses that PMI-ACP is framework-agnostic and expects candidates to understand multiple approaches.The conversation then shifts to

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Episode 13 — Suitability Tools: Interpreting Agile...

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2025/09/08

This episode introduces the various tools available to assess whether agile practices are suitable for a given project or environment. Candidates learn how suitability assessments consider organizational culture, stakeholder tolerance for change, technical uncertainty, and team dynamics. The session explains frameworks that guide leaders in evaluating whether agile will thrive or struggle, reinforcing that agility is not universally applicable in all contexts.Through case-style examples,

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28:24

Episode 12 — Complexity Thinking: Importance and...

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2025/09/08

Building on the prior episode, this session dives deeper into the consequences of misclassifying work within complexity models. Learners explore the risks of applying overly prescriptive approaches to complex or chaotic problems, including wasted effort, resistance to change, and failed outcomes. The episode emphasizes that accurate classification is not a one-time decision but an ongoing practice as environments evolve.The discussion highlights the risks of oversimplification and how

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Episode 11 — Complexity Thinking: Classifying...

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2025/09/08

This episode introduces learners to the importance of complexity thinking in agile environments, where uncertainty, emergence, and unpredictability often challenge linear planning. It begins by framing the concept of complex adaptive systems (CAS), which describe how interactions among agents create outcomes greater than the sum of parts. The Stacey Matrix is then explained as a tool for classifying scenarios based on the level of certainty around requirements and technology. These models

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Episode 10 — Agile Mindset: Values and Principles in...

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2025/09/08

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 discussion focuses on their application in decision-making scenarios, such as prioritizing customer collaboration over contract negotiation or adapting to change rather than following rigid plans. Candidates learn how to translate abstract principles into concrete exam answers.The second half of the episode emphasizes the alignment

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Episode 9 — Experiment Early: Create an Environment...

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2025/09/08

Following on the prior episode, this discussion shifts focus from building increments to cultivating the environment that makes experimentation sustainable. Psychological safety, leadership support, and dedicated time for innovation are highlighted as enablers of learning. The episode explains how agile environments thrive when teams feel permission to test, fail, and adjust without blame. By connecting environment to outcomes, learners see why PMI emphasizes culture in its exam

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28:01

Episode 8 — Experiment Early: Build an Increment to...

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2025/09/08

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 minimum viable product (MVP) and how it serves as an experiment rather than a finished solution. The discussion explains why teams must avoid the trap of overbuilding and instead prioritize quick, testable slices of functionality. Examples illustrate how early increments reduce uncertainty and accelerate learning cycles.The

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Episode 7 — Domain 1 Mindset: Overview

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2025/09/08

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 agile values and principles, emphasizing how they underpin adaptive approaches to uncertainty and complexity. It highlights that mindset is not simply about adopting terminology, but about reshaping behavior and expectations around change. The overview situates the domain within the PMI exam blueprint, giving learners a clear

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Episode 6 — Glossary Deep Dive III: Metrics, Flow,...

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2025/09/08

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, throughput, and definition of done are explained in detail. The importance of understanding statistical measures like percentiles and variability is also highlighted, since PMI often tests comprehension of performance-based decision making. This vocabulary builds the bridge between agile planning and agile measurement.Practical

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Episode 5 — Glossary Deep Dive II: Product and...

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2025/09/08

This glossary session turns to product and delivery-focused terminology, clarifying words and phrases that appear in backlogs, planning, and iterative development discussions. Candidates review terms such as product owner, backlog refinement, increment, user story, and acceptance criteria. Each definition is paired with explanations of how the term appears in agile practice, ensuring the exam’s situational framing feels familiar. The goal is to make vocabulary a living toolkit rather than a

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Episode 4 — Glossary Deep Dive I: Mindset and...

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2025/09/08

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 on mindset and leadership terminology, exploring concepts such as servant leadership, psychological safety, empowerment, and self-organization. Each term is unpacked not just as a definition but as a lens for interpreting real-world scenarios. Understanding vocabulary at this level prepares candidates for situational

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Episode 3 — Eligibility and Application & Exam Day...

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2025/09/08

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, including professional hours of general project experience, agile-specific work, and the educational background PMI requires. This episode explains how to document work experience, the role of reference checks, and common pitfalls applicants face during the review process. Guidance is also provided on how to approach the

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Episode 2 — Study System & Time Management: Spaced...

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2025/09/08

This episode focuses on building a personalized study system designed to maximize memory retention and performance under exam conditions. Candidates learn how spaced repetition helps move key concepts from short-term into long-term memory, as well as how active recall strengthens retrieval skills. The episode emphasizes that effective preparation requires more than just reading material; it demands deliberate cycles of self-testing, review, and reflection. Practical tools for scheduling and

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

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2025/09/08

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. Listeners will gain an overview of the exam format, including the structure of multiple-choice questions, situational items, and how adaptive testing strategies are applied. The session also clarifies the PMI-ACP’s coverage of agile practices from multiple frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, and Lean, giving candidates

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