ACP Corporate study plan

Define the agile mindset in your own words and map each value to a concrete behaviour you can observe in a corporate team

Differentiate agile from waterfall and hybrid delivery using three real corporate scenarios and justify which approach fits each

Explain how the seven domain areas interlock and identify where value-driven delivery connects to culture

Build a personal glossary of 20 core terms with one-sentence definitions and a corporate example for each

Rank a sample backlog of 15 items using value, risk, and effort, and defend the top five ordering

Produce a prioritisation rationale that balances customer value, compliance obligations, and technical debt

Draft a release slice plan for one quarter that shows how value reaches stakeholders incrementally

Contrast relative sizing with absolute estimation and state when each is appropriate in a corporate setting

Map stakeholders for a fictional corporate programme into a power-interest grid and assign an engagement strategy to each quadrant

Design a communication plan that states audience, cadence, channel, and decision rights

Write a facilitation plan for a 45-minute working session including purpose, structure, and timeboxes

Practise three techniques for surfacing disagreement in a mixed seniority group and note when each fails

Create a rolling two-level plan that links a quarterly objective to two-week iterations with explicit dependencies

Estimate a feature set with three techniques and compare the resulting ranges

Define three leading metrics that would detect delivery problems early in a corporate programme

Write a blameless retrospective format tailored to a team with mixed agile experience

Diagnose five common corporate delivery dysfunctions and propose a countermeasure for each

Design a governance model that satisfies audit and reporting needs without undermining iteration cadence

Identify the compliance touchpoints in a delivery lifecycle and place them at the least disruptive points

Draft a risk register with likelihood, impact, owner, and response for a mid-size programme

Write a change story that explains an agile transition to sceptical middle managers in under 300 words

Anticipate the five strongest objections to that transition and prepare a response to each

Plan a stakeholder conversation with a resistant senior sponsor, including opening, evidence, and ask

Identify cultural signals that would show whether the transition is taking hold

Run a timed 60-minute mock session covering prioritisation, team facilitation, and planning with a peer or self-recorded

Apply adaptive planning to a mid-iteration change and document the replanning decision

Coach a simulated underperforming team member through a structured conversation and capture the outcome

Reconcile a value-driven priority call with a governance constraint and justify the trade-off in writing

Consolidate all prior deliverables into a one-page summary of your decision frameworks

Complete a 60-question timed practice set and categorise every error by domain

Re-teach the two weakest domains from memory without notes and check for gaps

Set three specific habits to sustain after the exam, each with a trigger and a review date