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.
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Created in partnership between Agile Alliance and Project Management Institute (PMI), the Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition provides a framework-neutral guide to modern Agile practice.
This new 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.
Whether you are learning Agile, preparing for certification, or preparing for enterprise agility, the Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition offers practical guidance for delivering value in today’s changing work environment.
The Agile Practice Guide introduces Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices while helping readers choose fit-for-purpose approaches across predictive, Agile, and hybrid life cycles. The new Second Edition 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.
Learn how modern Agile practices support adaptable teams, value delivery, life cycle selection, scaling, AI-enabled work, sustainability, and enterprise agility. This practice guide is organized as follows:
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.
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.
Build high-performing Agile teams with guidance on remote and hybrid collaboration, psychological safety, leadership, team empowerment, Agile roles, responsibilities, and cross-functional collaboration.
Turn Agile principles into repeatable delivery practices through backlogs, planning, reviews, retrospectives, flow metrics, outcome-focused measurement, scaling, and multiteam coordination.
Connect team delivery to enterprise strategy with product management, product life cycles, Lean portfolio management, customer-centric metrics, organizational agility, and PMO evolution.
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.
The Agile Practice Guide – Second Edition helps practitioners navigate complexity, adapt to shifting priorities, and deliver value across projects, products, portfolios, and enterprise initiatives.
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