Agile principles and practices include:

• Early, measurable return on investment through defined, iterative delivery of product increments.
• High visibility of project progress allows early identification and resolution or monitoring of problems.
• Continuous involvement of the customer throughout the product development cycle.
• Empowerment of the business owner to make decisions needed to meet goals.
• Adaptation to changing business needs, giving more influence over requirement changes.
• Reduced product and process waste

Organizations who use agile principles and practices have documented the value they see from these techniques:

• Adaptive to changing business needs, giving the organization more influence over adding, changing, or removing requirements.
• Early and continuous customer feedback improves communication and empowers business owners who can receive and review critical information necessary to make decisions to steer the project throughout the development process.
• Early measurable return on investment.
• High visibility and influence over the project progress lead to early indications of problems.
• Incremental delivery rather than a single complete delivery at the end of the project. Reduces product and process waste.

The PMI-ACP® certification specifically validates a practitioner's ability to understand and apply agile principles and practices. The PMP® credential recognizes demonstrated competence leading and directing project teams