What is an Agile Mindset?
The agile mindset is the belief system beneath the practices: value flows from learning fast, people closest to the work make the best decisions about it, change is information rather than failure, and small delivered steps beat large promised ones. Practices without the mindset produce "agile theater" — standups, boards, and sprints wrapped around unchanged command-and-control.
The Agile Practice Guide's framing: being agile versus doing agile. Exams test it through scenarios where the ceremonially correct answer and the mindset-correct answer differ — pick the mindset.
Worked example
Two teams run identical ceremonies. Team A's standup reports status to a manager who reassigns tasks; changes are "scope creep"; the demo is a slideshow. Team B's standup is peers coordinating; a mid-sprint discovery reshapes the backlog with the PO in the room; the demo is working software and hard questions. Same practices, opposite mindsets — and within a year, only one of them is actually faster than it was.