The PMI Manifesto for Enterprise Agility Is Here. Are You Ready to Act on It?
PMI and the Agile Alliance have released the Manifesto for Enterprise Agility. A landmark call for enterprise leaders to build change-readiness across their entire organization, not just their development teams. ClearlyAgile maps every one of its services to the Manifesto's 9 principles.
What Is Enterprise Agility?
"Enterprise agility is the capacity to adapt at scale without losing coherence to decide quickly, redirect resources deliberately, and keep strategy actionable under real-world pressure."
— PMI Manifesto for Enterprise Agility, 2026
The Manifesto was developed by PMI and the Agile Alliance through rigorous C-suite research. This included surveys with over 700+ executives, 30+ in-depth interviews, and input from 70+ senior practitioners across industries.
It defines 4 core values and 9 principles that span three critical domains of enterprise transformation:
Leadership Behavior
How executives model and enable agility from the top down.
Organization Design
How teams, funding, and governance are structured for adaptability.
Execution
How strategy is translated into iterative, outcome-driven delivery.
The 4 Core Values
The Manifesto for Enterprise Agility is built on four foundational values that reframe how organizations lead, design, and execute.
Clear Purpose Realized Through Adaptive Plans
Guiding the organization with a clear, unwavering purpose outweighs rigid over-planning. Strategy must remain actionable as conditions change.
Shared Enterprise Outcomes Over Functional Optimization
Long-term cross-functional collaboration and enterprise-wide results outweigh siloed departmental KPIs and local optimization.
Continuous Reinvention Over Preservation
Challenging and evolving operating models to meet new realities outweighs defending structural inertia and legacy ways of working.
Human Centricity Amidst Change
Empathy, autonomy, and trust in people outweigh process-only change management. Transformation succeeds when people are at the center.
All 9 Principles Covered
How ClearlyAgile Delivers on All 9 Principles
Create clarity of purpose and align on enterprise outcomes
Executive Alignment Workshops, Agile Coaching
Expand agility across partners and ecosystems
Ecosystem & Partner Agility Strategy
Embrace technology and distributed talent
AI Digital Transformation + Distributed Scrum Teams
Govern with guardrails, not gatekeepers
Operating Model Design & Governance Coaching
Fund purpose and intent, not execution activity
Value-based Portfolio Management
Design for adaptability, not just efficiency
Agile Operating Model Redesign
Move authority and decision-making to where value is created
Team Empowerment & Decentralized Delivery Coaching
Deliver value frequently and make work visible
Scrum Delivery + CA Care Visibility Programs
Sense early, learn quickly, act with confidence
Predictive Forecasting + Agile Health Assessments + AI Sensing
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Every principle. Every domain. Delivered by practitioners who've done it at scale.
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