📚 Standards & Frameworks
Your map to how modern projects are led, scaled, and governed.
This library brings clarity to the world’s most used project delivery frameworks and official global standards.
Each one defines a different way organizations plan, deliver, and control work — from practical methods like Scrum and Kanban to global references like PMBOK® and PRINCE2®.
Every item below will link to a focused guide with a simple explanation, when to use it, and how it shows up in real projects.
(All content coming soon — links will update as each guide is published.)
Table of Contents
PMI Standards and Practice Guides
Portfolio, Program, and Governance
Risk, Change, and Value Management
Continuous Improvement and Flow
Product and Strategy Alignment
(Content coming soon — links will update as each guide is published.)
PMI Standards and Practice Guides
Core references from the Project Management Institute. These are the standards most companies point to when defining how work should be governed.
Practice Standard for Risk Management in Projects (PMI)
(Coming Soon)
This guide details the processes for identifying, analyzing, and planning risk responses, as well as monitoring and controlling risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring a formal and disciplined approach to uncertainty.
Benefits Realization Management (PMI)
(Coming Soon)
This is a critical practice focused on ensuring that the projects and programs an organization undertakes actually deliver the intended value and business outcomes. It establishes processes for defining, measuring, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits once the project deliverables are complete.
Organizational Project Management / OPM
(Coming Soon)
OPM is a strategy execution framework that links an organization’s portfolios, programs, and projects with its enabling organizational practices (like culture, structure, and technology) to consistently and predictably achieve strategic objectives.
Disciplined Agile
(Coming Soon)
Disciplined Agile (DA) is a process-decision toolkit that provides guidance for teams to select their own “way of working” (WoW), enabling them to combine practices from Scrum, Lean, and others, along with appropriate governance, to fit their specific context and deliver business value more effectively.
Delivery Frameworks
Methods teams use every day to plan, collaborate, build, and deliver.
Scrum
(Coming Soon)
A lightweight, iterative, and incremental framework for developing and sustaining complex products, built around small, self-organizing teams. It relies on short cycles called Sprints (typically 2-4 weeks) with fixed roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team) and clear events (Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
Kanban
(Coming Soon)
A flow-based work management method that visualizes work, limits work-in-progress (WIP), and focuses on minimizing cycle time (the time from start to finish). Its strength lies in making bottlenecks and workflow blockages immediately visible, promoting continuous improvement in process flow.
Lean
(Coming Soon)
Based on principles derived from the Toyota Production System, the goal of Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Its core concepts include eliminating non-value-adding activities (waste), ensuring continuous flow, and pulling value from the customer’s perspective.
Extreme Programming (XP)
(Coming Soon)
A highly disciplined set of software engineering practices designed to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. Key practices include continuous integration, test-driven development (TDD), pair programming, and frequent small releases.
AgilePM / DSDM
(Coming Soon)
Agile Project Management (AgilePM) is a comprehensive, non-proprietary framework that offers a full project lifecycle approach (unlike Scrum). It is built on the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) and focuses on strong project governance, roles, and fixed time/cost with flexible scope/features.
Waterfall / Predictive Project Lifecycle
(Coming Soon)
The classic, staged, and sequential project approach where the entire scope, schedule, and budget are defined up-front before execution begins. Progress flows downward like a waterfall through phases like requirements, design, implementation, and testing. It is best suited for projects with high stability and clear requirements.
Hybrid Delivery
(Coming Soon)
The most common approach in practice, Hybrid Delivery intentionally blends predictive and agile methods (e.g., using a predictive approach for high-level planning and contractual management, while using Scrum or Kanban for iterative product development and execution).
Scaling and Enterprise
How large organizations try to align many teams, shared backlogs, and strategic goals.
SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework)
(Coming Soon)
A comprehensive, prescriptive framework that provides an integrated structure for scaling Agile and Lean principles across the enterprise, coordinating work from the team level up to the portfolio level using concepts like Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Value Streams.
LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)
(Coming Soon)
A way of scaling Scrum by applying its principles to multiple teams working together on a single product. It maintains the original Scrum roles and events while minimizing added processes and complexity to keep the organization lean.
Scrum@Scale
(Coming Soon)
An approach that scales the core concepts of Scrum by establishing a network of Scrum Teams and Executive Action Teams, expanding the “how” (delivery) and “what” (prioritization) leadership cycles to synchronize hundreds or thousands of people.
Nexus
(Coming Soon)
A framework that focuses on coordinating and integrating the work of three to nine Scrum Teams that are working on a single product backlog. It emphasizes managing dependencies and reducing integration issues across the teams.
Spotify Model
(Coming Soon)
A cultural and organizational approach, rather than a formal framework, that organizes people into Squads (Scrum-like teams), Tribes (a collection of related squads), Chapters (people with similar skills across squads), and Guilds (communities of interest) to balance autonomy and alignment.
Flight Levels / Enterprise Kanban
(Coming Soon)
A model that shifts focus from specific delivery teams to the visualization and management of work at different organizational levels (Strategy, Portfolio, Operations). It uses Kanban principles to connect strategic intent with delivery execution across the entire organization.
Lean Portfolio Management
(Coming Soon)
A set of practices that applies Lean thinking to portfolio-level decision-making. It focuses on decentralizing decision-making, providing adaptive funding for value streams, and continuously aligning the investment strategy with overall business outcomes.
Portfolio, Program, and Governance
How leadership keeps control, proves value, and makes sure execution matches strategy.
P3O® (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)
(Coming Soon)
A model that provides guidance on the structure, roles, tools, and techniques required to establish or revitalize an appropriate Portfolio, Programme, and Project Office (PMO) capability in an organization, ensuring decision-making bodies are effective.
MSP® (Managing Successful Programmes)
(Coming Soon)
A structured framework for the effective management of strategic change through the coordinated execution of programs. It emphasizes a transformational program lifecycle to ensure the delivery of new capabilities and the realization of measurable organizational benefits.
MoP® (Management of Portfolios)
(Coming Soon)
This guidance is aimed at the senior management of an organization and provides principles and practices for the optimal investment in, and delivery of, an organization’s portfolio of change initiatives, ensuring the right balance of strategic alignment, risk, and value.
PfM² (Portfolio Management Methodology, European Commission)
(Coming Soon)
A public sector-developed methodology that provides a structured, yet pragmatic, approach to managing portfolios within public administrations and complex, multi-stakeholder environments, focusing on achieving strategic objectives with clear governance.
P3M3® (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model)
(Coming Soon)
A widely-used maturity model that helps organizations assess their current capability in managing projects, programs, and portfolios across seven distinct perspectives (e.g., Governance, Resource Management, Financial Management) to benchmark performance and define improvement plans.
COBIT® (Governance of Enterprise IT)
(Coming Soon)
A governance and control framework, primarily for Enterprise IT, that helps organizations manage and govern information and technology by providing a comprehensive set of principles, practices, and analytical tools. It is crucial in compliance-heavy IT environments.
OGC Gateway Review Process
(Coming Soon)
A series of structured, independent peer reviews conducted at key decision points (gates) during the lifecycle of a high-risk project or program (especially common in the UK public sector). Its purpose is to assure stakeholders that the initiative is on track, viable, and delivering value.
Execution and Compliance
Formal guidance used by governments, consultancies, and regulated industries.
PRINCE2®
(Coming Soon)
A highly structured and process-driven project management method that emphasizes defined roles, management stages, and seven principles, themes, and processes. It is popular in government and contracting environments due to its strong focus on business justification, governance, and management by exception.
ISO 21502 / 21500
(Coming Soon)
The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) suite of standards for project, program, and portfolio management. They provide high-level, internationally recognized guidance on concepts and practices, often used in global organizations to ensure interoperability and baseline requirements in procurement.
ITIL / IT Service Management
(Coming Soon)
A set of detailed practices focused on IT Service Management (ITSM), covering the entire lifecycle of IT services, including how to transition (deliver) new services into a live production environment and continually support and improve them (operations). Project teams often hand off deliverables to ITIL-governed operations teams.
DevOps (CALMS model and Continuous Delivery practices)
(Coming Soon)
A cultural and professional movement focused on bridging the gap between development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). The CALMS model (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing) summarizes its core principles, which aim to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity.
Risk, Change, and Value Management
How organizations manage uncertainty, change impact, and value realization.
M_o_R® (Management of Risk)
(Coming Soon)
A holistic framework that provides a structured approach to effective risk management across four integrated levels: strategic, program, project, and operational. It defines core principles, a risk management process, and techniques for identifying, assessing, and controlling risk.
Practice Standard for Risk Management in Projects (PMI)
(Coming Soon)
This PMI standard provides detailed, practical steps for implementing risk management within an individual project, covering risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and the planning and control of risk responses.
Prosci ADKAR
(Coming Soon)
A popular individual change management model that focuses on the five sequential outcomes an individual needs to achieve for successful change adoption: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement. Project managers use it to measure and guide the human side of transition.
Kotter’s 8 Steps for Change
(Coming Soon)
A classic, sequential model for leading major organizational transformation. It starts by creating a sense of urgency and moves through building a guiding coalition, developing a strategic vision, communicating the vision, and finally, anchoring new approaches in the culture.
Benefits Realization Management (PMI)
(Coming Soon)
A practice focused on ensuring that organizational change initiatives and projects deliver the intended measurable value to the business. It requires defining the expected benefits before the project starts and tracking them well after the project closes.
COSO ERM (Enterprise Risk Management)
(Coming Soon)
A framework that provides a comprehensive, principles-based approach to managing risk across an entire enterprise. It helps organizations manage uncertainty and complexity by integrating risk awareness into strategic planning and performance.
Continuous Improvement and Flow
How teams get better over time, reduce friction, and remove waste.
Lean (Toyota Production System, Kaizen)
(Coming Soon)
The philosophy centers on identifying and eliminating waste (”Muda”) to improve efficiency, flow, and quality. Kaizen (Japanese for “change for the better”) is the concept of continuous, incremental improvement involving everyone in the organization.
Six Sigma / DMAIC
(Coming Soon)
A data-driven methodology used to eliminate defects and reduce variation in any process. Its core framework, DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), is a structured problem-solving approach to bring processes to a high level of quality performance.
Lean Six Sigma
(Coming Soon)
A hybrid approach that combines the waste reduction focus of Lean with the variation reduction and process control focus of Six Sigma. It aims to maximize both process speed (flow) and process quality (control).
Theory of Constraints (TOC)
(Coming Soon)
A management paradigm that states every system’s performance is limited by a single bottleneck or constraint. The methodology focuses on identifying the constraint, exploiting it, subordinating all other parts of the system to it, elevating it, and then repeating the process.
Value Stream Mapping
(Coming Soon)
A Lean technique used to visually map the entire sequence of steps required to deliver a product or service to a customer. Its primary goal is to identify all forms of waste (delays, rework, waiting time) in the flow and pinpoint opportunities for improvement.
Product and Strategy Alignment
Where product management, discovery, and delivery meet strategy.
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
(Coming Soon)
A goal-setting framework used to define and track ambitious, measurable goals and their outcomes. Objectives are qualitative descriptions of what you want to achieve, while Key Results are quantitative metrics that measure how you plan to get there, driving alignment from the top down.
Lean Startup
(Coming Soon)
A methodology for developing businesses and products, particularly in environments of high uncertainty. It emphasizes a continuous cycle of Build-Measure-Learn, promoting the use of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to test hypotheses and pivot quickly based on validated learning.
Design Thinking / Human-Centered Design
(Coming Soon)
A creative and iterative approach to problem-solving that places the needs, behaviors, and context of the end-user at the center of the development process. It follows phases like Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
Team Topologies
(Coming Soon)
A model for structuring technology teams to support a fast, sustainable flow of value. It defines four fundamental team types (Stream-Aligned, Enabling, Complicated Subsystem, Platform) and three core interaction modes (Collaboration, X-as-a-Service, Facilitating) to minimize cognitive load and handover friction.