CHEAT SHEET - Power Skills & Business Acumen - 35 PDUs Hours (PMP Exam Prep)

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Concise PMP exam prep cheat sheet covering Agile fundamentals and practical execution: Agile values, agile team characteristics, key agile environment considerations, and common delivery practices such as backlog refinement, planning cadence, daily stand-ups, reviews/demonstrations, and retrospectives. Includes DOR/DOD/AC sprint planning references, power skills topics (RACI, stakeholder tools, consensus techniques, ethics, emotional intelligence, conflict management) and business acumen areas like compliance categories, benefits management, organizational structures, and PMO types. Adds core formulas for estimating, earned value metrics, risk and distribution calculations, and ways of working including scope management and risk focus.

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Agile

4 Agile Values

4 Characteristics of Agile Team

Considerations in Agile Environment

Agile ceremonies and consensus techniques

Power Skills & Business Acumen

Power Skills (42%)

Business Acumen (8%)

Formulas

Three-point estimate and EVM metrics

Risk, distributions, and scoring

Ways of Working

Scope and scope baseline

Scope in Agile and impact mapping

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AGILE | | | | 4 AGILE VALUES
Individuals & interactionsover
processes & tools
Working softwareover comprehensive
documentation
Customer collaborationover contract negotiation
Responding to changeover following
a plan | |
4 CHARACTERISTICS OF AGILE TEAM

Dedicated people
Mixed team of generalists & specialists
Colocation or ability to manage any location challenges
Stable work environment
| | | | | | 6 CONSIDERATIONS IN AGILE ENVIRONMENT

Backlog preparation

Backlog refinement

Planning

Daily stand ups

Demonstrations/ Reviews

Retrospective
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DOR, DOD AND AC

DoR Ready DoD Complete AC
Sprint Planning Sprint Review | | | |
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POWER SKILLS (42%) | | |
T-SHAPED SKILLS VS. SPOF

RACI
Focus groups
Project charter vs . Team charter Ground rules/Social contract
Absolute time estimate (3-point estimating) vs . Relative measure ( Planning poker, Story pointing and T-shirt sizing)
Resource management plan includes training plan and recognition plan .
Face-to-face communication in virtual team, Fishbowl window
3 Stake holder Classification Tools: power grid, salience mode & stake holder cube
4 backlog prioritization techniques: Kano, MoSCoW, Paired Comparison, 100 Points
4 Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
4 techniques to get consensus: Fist of Five, Roman voting, Polling, Dot voting
4 codes of ethics: Responsibility, Respect, Fairness & Honesty
5 elements of Emotional Intelligence: Selfawareness, Self-regulation, Motivation, Empathy, Social Skills
3 Performance Report Types |
5 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT APPROACHES

4 CHARACTERISTICS OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Facilitate rather than manage

Provide coaching and training

Remove work impediments

Focus on accomplishments

TUCKMAN MOLDE AND LEADERSHIP MODEL
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BUSINESS ACUMEN (8%) | | |
4 common compliance categories: Regulatory, Quality, Legal & Process
Tolerances and Escalation procedures
3 common benefit management techniques: Net Promoter Score, A/ B Testing, Decision Tree Analysis
4 types of Organizational Structures: Functional, Project oriented, Matrix, Composite
3 types of PMO: Supportive, Controlling, Directive Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) vs . Enterprise Environmental Factors ( EEFs) Kai zen vs . Deming cycle ( P-D-C-A or P-D-S-A)

Plan Do
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FAQs

What are the four Agile values summarized in this cheat sheet?

It lists Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, Working software over comprehensive documentation, Customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and Responding to change over following a plan.

Which earned value metrics and indicators are included?

The sheet includes PV, EV, AC, CV, SV, CPI, SPI, and additional measures like EMV and NPS, with notes on how values indicate under/over budget and ahead/behind schedule.

How does the document address scope management in both traditional and Agile contexts?

It contrasts Requirement Management Plan vs Scope Management Plan, explains scope baseline creation (requirement documentation, scope statement, WBS) and components (scope statement, WBS, WBS dictionary, planning package, work package), then covers Agile scope with impact mapping and steps to create a product backlog from epics to features to user stories.

Oct 13, 2026

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