1. Intent & Outcome Alignment
Agile AI systems must be explicitly aligned to clear intent and desired outcomes. This ensures AI capability is directed toward meaningful outcomes rather than isolated outputs.
Agile AI Functional Elements
Version 1.0
Agile Artificial Intelligence (Agile AI) is defined by a small set of Functional Elements. These elements describe what must exist for AI-enabled products, projects, and services to be adaptive, responsible, and outcome-driven.
The Agile AI Functional Elements are framework-agnostic, technology-neutral, and durable. They define essential capabilities, not practices or methods.
The Six Agile AI Functional Elements
2. Human Judgment & Accountability
Agile AI requires deliberate human judgment and clear accountability. Humans remain responsible for direction, constraints, and ethical decisions, even as automation and autonomy increase.
3. Adaptive Execution
Agile AI systems must continuously adapt based on feedback, learning, and emerging signals. Change is treated as a constant condition, not an exception.
4. Continuous Learning & Feedback
Agile AI systems must learn continuously from outcomes, signals, and impacts across individual, team, system, and system-of-systems levels.
5. Governance by Design
Governance must be embedded intentionally into Agile AI systems. Ethical boundaries, constraints, and escalation paths are designed upfront and evolve with capability.
6. Systemic Integration
Agile AI operates as part of a broader socio-technical system. Interdependencies and second-order effects are considered to avoid fragmentation and local optimization.
Governance & Versioning
This document represents Agile AI Functional Elements v1.0. Changes to these elements are rare, deliberate, and backward-compatible where possible.
The Functional Elements define WHAT must exist. Practices, principles, learning, and assessment exist to realize and evaluate these elements without redefining them.
About the Agile AI Foundation
The Agile AI Foundation exists to preserve a clear, stable, and neutral definition of Agile AI Functional Elements.
The Foundation does not provide training, certification, or assessments. Learning and application resources are provided separately.