Agile Practice Guide

PMI collaborated with the Agile Alliance to produce the Agile Practice Guide. Read my critical review and learn where to buy the guide or download the free PDF.

PMI Produced a Guide to the Agile Methodology?

Some of you may be surprised as I was to learn about PMI’s 2017 collaboration with the Agile Alliance. The result was an overview of Agile Methodologies called the Agile Practice Guide. Groups of volunteers from both organizations worked together to draft and review a document on Agile.

The product of their work is the newly published, Agile Practice Guide. A PMI publication, this document is now generally available and is included with the free PDF download of the 6th Edition of the PMBOK.

I wasn’t completely surprised by the release since I was one of the collaborators on the document. I had the pleasure of contributing to the guide thanks to Sally Elatta of Agile Transformations who invited me to pair with her to review and provide comments on an early draft of the document. I’ve learned a lot from Sally over the years and was happy to be able to collaborate with her on this project.

First of all, let me say that I am happy that the Agile Practice Guide is somewhat…