According to the Project Management Institute, an Agile Project Manager, on a regular basis, should explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization. This implies some typical tasks included below:
- Advocate for agile principles by modeling those principles and discussing agile values in order to develop a shared mindset across the team as well as between the customer and the team.
- Help ensure that everyone has a common understanding of the values and principles of agile and a common knowledge around the agile practices and terminology being used in order to work effectively.
- Support change at the system or organization level by educating the organization and influencing processes, behaviors, and people in order to make the organization more effective and efficient.
- Practice visualization by maintaining highly visible information radiators showing real progress and real team performance in order to enhance transparency and trust.
- Contribute to a safe and trustful team environment by allowing everyone to experiment and make mistakes so that each can learn and continuously improve the way they work.
- Enhance creativity by experimenting with new techniques and process ideas in order to discover more efficient and effective ways of working.
- Encourage team members to share knowledge by collaborating and working together in order to lower risks around knowledge silos and reduce bottlenecks.
- Encourage emergent leadership within the team by establishing a safe and respectful environment in which new approaches can be tried in order to make improvements and foster self-organization and empowerment.
- Practice servant leadership by supporting and encouraging others in their endeavors so that they can perform at their highest level and continue to improve.
In the center of these common tasks is the real understanding of the values and principles expressed on the Agile Manifesto published in 2001. The 4 values of the Agile Manifesto are stated as:
Behind these 4 values, there are 12 principles, which are transcribed below:












