Agility
Closing the gap between strategy and execution.
Success requires more than the right strategy. Organizations need the ability to adapt as priorities change and translate strategy into action. Modern agile practices create the conditions that help teams stay aligned and continuously deliver value.
Agility
Closing the gap between strategy and execution.
Success requires more than the right strategy. Organizations need the ability to adapt as priorities change and translate strategy into action. Modern agile practices create the conditions that help teams stay aligned and continuously deliver value.
Why agile practices?
Gain a competitive advantage
Agile values, principles and practices applied in project and product management empower teams to adapt quickly, deliver faster, and drive meaningful results. By breaking down silos and fostering collaboration, agile mindsets and approaches increase efficiency, reduce risk, and ensure continuous innovation.
Explore our insights and training to grow your agile mindset, develop agile practices and skills, and lead transformation.
72%
of executives believe their organizations have a clear sense of purpose, but Project Professionals say this clear sense of purpose dilutes as it moves through the organization.
22%
of executives say empowering decisions at the edge is the most difficult agility principle to achieve.
Only 41%
believe their operating model supports the rapid allocation of capital and talent.
Embrace agile with PMI
Agility is about mindset and adaptability, not just one approach.
PMI agile learning includes Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and more, equipping professionals with the skills to apply agile principles effectively across industries.
Advance your agile practice and your career with PMI-ACP® certification
The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® reinforces this adaptability as the industry’s only framework-agnostic, experience-based, ISO-accredited exam. It validates your ability to apply agile principles, values, and practices across various methodologies.
A modern guide to enterprise agility
Navigate complexity and adapt to shifting priorities with the Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition.
Whether you're learning agile, preparing for certification, or helping teams adapt to change, this guide offers a framework-neutral approach for delivering value in rapidly evolving environments.
PMI members get a free digital copy of the guide.
Enterprise Agility
With frequent disruption as the norm, enterprise agility becomes a non-negotiable for organizations seeking resilience, speed and sustained success.
Power Enterprise-Wide Agility
The Manifesto for Enterprise Agility: Leadership Values for Transformation Challenges
The gap between leadership decisions and organizational reality is where transformations break down. BCG calls this "change distance." PMI's Manifesto for Enterprise Agility provides four leadership values that close the gap so organizations can deliver outcomes, not just launch change.
Portfolio Management: The Engine of Enterprise Agility
Enterprise agility hinges on a strong portfolio management function that helps organizations make smarter, faster decisions in the face of constant change.
Enterprise Agility: The Key to Building Anti-Fragile Organizations
In today’s disruptive world, enterprise agility helps organizations thrive. Move from resilience to anti-fragility with tips for continuous transformation.
Taking Agility to the Enterprise: A Council Conversation
The PMI Global Executive Council came together to tackle one of today’s most critical business challenges: enterprise agility.
Disciplined Agile
Tailor agile to your needs
Every organization is different, and agility should be too. Disciplined Agile (DA)® is a flexible, agnostic decision framework that helps teams and organizations choose, customize, and evolve their way of working (WoW).
Instead of prescribing a rigid framework, DA provides guidance on blending agile, lean, and other strategies to optimize processes, scale agility, and achieve better outcomes.
Featured Research: Enabling Enterprise Agility
Organizations struggle to execute strategy because of a gap between what leaders intend and what teams can deliver. Discover the conditions that organizations need to create to fill the gap and unlock agility that delivers value across projects, products and enterprise initiatives.
Join the conversation outside PMI
Enterprise Agility: Resources to Help Organizations Become Built for Change
PMI and ProjectManagement.com have developed a growing collection of enterprise agility content, including executive interviews, thought leadership articles, blogs and webinars. Together, these resources explore what it takes to lead, enable and sustain agility across the enterprise.
Portfolio Management– Where Everything Comes Together
Hear from PMI Chief of Staff Lenka Pincot and a panel of experts as they discuss why portfolio management is so critical, what it entails, and the “what” and “how” of understanding the work.
A New Chapter for Agility: Co-Creating What’s Next
Agile2025 brought together the agile community for their first major gathering since Agile Alliance joined the PMI family earlier this year. Get the take-aways from this year’s biggest agile event.
Agile Research & Insights
Collaborations Between Project and Product Management
In Partnership with Agile Alliance
Our latest report reveals the critical need for project and product management cohesion to drive success.
How to Cultivate an Agile Mindset
Explore the elements of an agile mindset and what you can do to cultivate it in yourself and your team.