This Community Charter Document articulates the collective vision of the PMI Agile Community of Practice (CoP). This document was drafted during the formation of the Community, and is in the process of being ratified by the formation Steering Committee.

Community Purpose: "To equip PMI Members with Agile skills and knowledge"

Community Values:

• "Adherance to the Agile manifesto" - We define the school of Agile Project Management to be charactarized by a strong dedication to the best values and principles described in the Agile manifesto.
• "Adhereance to the Declaration of Interdependence for Modern Management" - We assert the school of Agile Project Management is relevant to all projects, regardless of organization, sector, or markets, and is not limited to the software development community that originated it.
• "Transparancy" - Everything we do is performed to the greatest degree of global visibility possible.
• "Iterative/Incremental" - Everything we do has the potential to be delivered early and delivered often.
• "Kaizen" - Everything we do has room for improvement.
• "Empirical" - Everything we do is judged by measurable value delivered against the Community Purpose.

Community Image of Who We Are: 

"We are a community of highly accountable project professionals, improving skills, expanding minds, and continuously raising the day-to-day effectiveness and professional satisfaction of project teams across the world."

2009 Goals & Objectives:

• "Deliver value NOW" - Rather than wait, we move forward. We can overcome any delays in formal resources, to make progress on our Community Purpose. We will define metrics to measure what our members define as value. We will provide opportunities for asipring leaders to volunteer. We will equip and enable stakeholders to learn and teach Agile project management, even before we have formally launched. By way of example, this wiki website will serve as a staging site for collaboration and content that will eventually be hosted by PMI. Each PMI member that wishes to learn and teach Agile Project Management can use this site to do so, rather than waiting for the PMI-hosted website to be fully operational.

• "Launch!" - We are an official component of the Project Managment Institute, fully authorized and empowered to represent the Agile community within its membership. Accordingly, we will plan, promote, and execute a formal launch event by the end of Q2, 2009.

Community Resources:

• Committed from our sponsor (PMI's virtual Communities Office):
  • Annual operating budget to cover expenses (TBD)
  • Dedicated, single point-of-contact to PMI Headquarters, able to provide the information and decisions necessary to operate as a PMI entity
  • Training for our leaders at the PMI Leadership Institute
  • Internet and Telecom Infrastructure for internal collaobration and service delivery
• Expected from community stakeholders
  • Volunteer resources, consistent with our Community Values.
  • Permission to delivery value iterative/incremental fashion, rather than customers/users considering 1st draft results as finished products

Community Roles:

The Community operates with volunteers serving in clearly defined Roles:

Working/Operating Agreements: 

• All work will be performed against a set of program-wide and team-specific Acceptance Criteria
• All work teams will self-assign volunteers to fill the community's clearly defined Roles:
• All work teams will delivery value using Agile artifacts and ceremonies:
• All decisions will have team consensus, where consensus is defined as "I can live with that decision"