Study CAPM Reviews, Retrospectives, Defects, Impediments, and Adaptive Governance: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter ties together the inspect-and-adapt loop that makes adaptive delivery credible. CAPM usually tests whether you can separate review from retrospective, treat validation as evidence-based, and keep blockers, defects, debt, and compliance from quietly eroding value.
The exam usually does not reward generic statements such as “get feedback often” or “keep improving.” It rewards whether you can identify what kind of inspect-and-adapt conversation is happening, what evidence matters, and what the strongest next control action should be. You need to separate stakeholder reaction from formal acceptance, distinguish team-improvement work from product-feedback work, and handle impediments, defects, debt, and compliance without collapsing them into one vague problem bucket.
Use these sections in order. Start with reviews and increment validation, then move into retrospectives and continuous improvement, and finish with the issue-and-control layer that keeps adaptive work responsive without becoming careless.