Agile Practice Guide
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Agile Practice Guide

Project Management Institute182pages

A modern, framework-neutral guide to enhance agility and value delivery across teams and enterprise-wide initiatives.

Publication Type
PMI Practice Guide

Overview

The Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition provides a framework-neutral guide to modern agile practice, created in collaboration with Agile Alliance®.

This edition reflects how agility is practiced today across projects, products, portfolios and enterprise initiatives in rapidly changing environments. It expands beyond team-level delivery with updated guidance on distributed work, AI-enabled delivery, sustainability, psychological safety, scaling and measurable value.

The guide introduces agile mindset, values, principles and practices while helping readers choose fit-for-purpose approaches across predictive, agile and hybrid life cycles. It includes:

  • Guidance on agile foundations, Lean thinking, Kanban, design thinking and product delivery.
  • Practical direction for remote and hybrid teams, team empowerment, psychological safety and collaboration.
  • Updated coverage of value delivery, flow metrics, outcomes, scaling, AI and GenAI, DevOps, DORA metrics, sustainability and ethical design.
  • Connections to PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition concepts including sustainability, M.O.R.E. and adaptive ways of working.

Whether you are learning agile, preparing for certification or preparing for enterprise agility, Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition offers practical guidance for delivering value in today’s changing work environment.

Product Specifications

Pages

182

Publisher

Project Management Institute

Publication Date

July 2026

What you'll learn
Learn how modern agile practices support adaptable teams, value delivery, life cycle selection, scaling, AI-enabled work, sustainability and enterprise agility.
Agile Foundations
Understand the why behind agile approaches, including agile values, principles and mindset, Lean thinking, Kanban, design thinking, Lean Startup and how agile applies beyond software development.
Delivery Approaches and Life Cycles
Choose the right model for the work by comparing product and project delivery, predictive and agile life cycles, continuum and hybrid models, fit-for-purpose approach selection and tailoring guidance.
Creating Agile Teams and Environments
Build high-performing agile teams with guidance on remote and hybrid collaboration, psychological safety, leadership, team empowerment, agile roles, responsibilities and cross-functional collaboration.
Delivering Value in Agile Environments
Turn agile principles into repeatable delivery practices through backlogs, planning, reviews, retrospectives, flow metrics, outcome-focused measurement, scaling and multiteam coordination.
Product, Portfolio and Enterprise Agility
Connect team delivery to enterprise strategy with product management, product life cycles, Lean portfolio management, customer-centric metrics, organizational agility and PMO evolution.
Emerging Practices and Modern Topics
Prepare teams for modern delivery ecosystems with guidance on AI and GenAI, sustainability, ethical design, DevOps, DORA metrics and modern scaling frameworks including SAFe, LeSS and DA.

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