Agile Practice Guide

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.