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Agilist

A professional who practices and promotes agile values and methods, guiding teams and stakeholders to deliver in small increments, gather frequent feedback, and continuously improve; essentially the same role as an agile practitioner.

Key Points

  • Embodies agile values and principles such as customer focus, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability.
  • Facilitates iterative planning, incremental delivery, reviews, and retrospectives to enable rapid learning.
  • Encourages servant leadership, psychological safety, and cross-functional teamwork.
  • Also known as an Agile Practitioner (PMI cross-reference: See Agile Practitioner.).

Example

On a new product effort, the Agilist helps the team slice features into thin vertical increments, runs two-week sprint reviews to gather user feedback, updates the backlog based on insights, and leads retrospectives to remove workflow bottlenecks and improve cycle time.

PMP Example Question

Which action best reflects the responsibilities of an Agilist on a project?

  1. Enforcing strict change control to prevent any scope change after baseline approval.
  2. Coaching the team to deliver in small increments and facilitating frequent stakeholder feedback.
  3. Directly assigning daily tasks to each team member to maximize utilization.
  4. Freezing the entire backlog for a release to maintain schedule predictability.

Correct Answer: B — Coaching iterative delivery and feedback loops

Explanation: An Agilist promotes incremental delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement; the other options reflect command-and-control or anti-agile practices.

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