ACP Corporate study guide
ACP Corporate · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ACP Corporate is an agile certification aimed at practitioners who apply agile thinking inside established organisations rather than in greenfield product teams. It suits project and programme managers, delivery leads, business analysts, PMO staff and change managers who must reconcile iterative delivery with fixed budgets, audit trails, procurement rules and layered approval chains. The ACP Corporate study guide has 7 sections and about 2,053 words.
01Agile Mindset and Corporate Culture
This domain of the ACP Corporate exam tests whether you can separate agile values from agile theatre and change behaviour inside a corporate system that rewards predictability. Expect questions on empiricism, servant leadership, psychological safety, Shu-Ha-Ri, and the difference between doing agile and being agile.
312 words, about 2 min02Value-Driven Delivery and Prioritisation
This domain tests how value is defined, sliced, ordered, and delivered, especially when corporate stakeholders compete for capacity. Expect cost of delay, WSJF, MoSCoW, Kano, MVP, story slicing, and the difference between output and outcome.
313 words, about 2 min03Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
This domain tests how you identify, analyse, and engage stakeholders so decisions and feedback flow at the speed of delivery. Expect power/interest mapping, communication cadence, information radiators, decision rights, conflict, and remote or hybrid engagement.
295 words, about 1 min04Team Performance and Facilitation
This domain tests how you build a high-performing team and facilitate group work without taking over the content. Expect Tuckman stages, psychological safety, working agreements, decision techniques such as consent, fist of five, and Roman voting, retrospectives, conflict handling, and distributed-team facilitation.
284 words, about 1 min05Adaptive Planning and Estimation
This domain tests how you plan and estimate when scope and detail are uncertain. Expect rolling-wave planning, story mapping, relative estimation, velocity ranges, capacity, the cone of uncertainty, and forecast versus commitment.
283 words, about 1 min06Problem Detection and Continuous Improvement
This domain tests how you detect delivery problems early and improve the system rather than blaming individuals. Expect flow metrics, cumulative flow diagrams, WIP limits, Little's Law, root-cause analysis, retrospectives, and improvement experiments.
282 words, about 1 min07Governance, Risk and Compliance in Corporate Settings
This domain tests how agile delivery operates inside corporate governance, risk, and compliance without turning into waterfall. Expect stage gates, lightweight artefacts, risk-adjusted backlogs, ROAM, auditability, traceability, portfolio funding, and escalation.
284 words, about 1 min