Early in the commercialization of agile development methods, project management professionals (PMPs) presented agile approaches as repackaged versions of conventional methods that integrated with many core project management principles. In 2003, Clement James Goebel III, PMP, mapped the development practices of a specific agile method, XP, to the core knowledge areas and processes in the PMBOK Guide, Third Edition.1 He concluded that the principles of project management theory were embedded in agile development methods.