Sensing Agile in an ‘agile’ way: a definition that helps practice
Sensing Agile in an ‘agile’ way: a definition that helps practice
Agile Project Management becomes far more actionable when we stop treating it as a fashionable label or ceremonial add-on to the old project management routines and instead recognize it as a distinct approach. One that manages both delivery and learning about the evolving aims, enabled by an organization built to adapt.
That clarity helps project leaders develop governance, measures, and behaviours in a real Agile sense, rather than at a cosmetic or rhetorical level. Project agility is achieved through Agile practices; while enterprise agility is the broader capacity required that allows those practices to scale and stick.
Dong, Hao
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Dacre, Nicholas
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Baxter, David
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Nicholls, Daniel
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26 February 2026
Dong, Hao
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Dacre, Nicholas
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Baxter, David
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Nicholls, Daniel
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Dong, Hao, Dacre, Nicholas, Baxter, David and Nicholls, Daniel
(2026)
Sensing Agile in an ‘agile’ way: a definition that helps practice.
Project Management Journal.
Abstract
Agile Project Management becomes far more actionable when we stop treating it as a fashionable label or ceremonial add-on to the old project management routines and instead recognize it as a distinct approach. One that manages both delivery and learning about the evolving aims, enabled by an organization built to adapt.
That clarity helps project leaders develop governance, measures, and behaviours in a real Agile sense, rather than at a cosmetic or rhetorical level. Project agility is achieved through Agile practices; while enterprise agility is the broader capacity required that allows those practices to scale and stick.
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