Agile
When asking an agile practitioner, expert or coach for a one sentence answer to “what is agile” you will often get the response “agile is a mindset”. When you ask the follow on question of “what is an agile mindset”, more often than not you will get an answer that is along the lines of “it is hard to explain but you will know it when you see it”
Lets have a go at explaining what it is and what it isnt.
Agile
Agile Mindset
It’s a problem of what we have been taught, what we have learnt and how we think When my generation went to school we were taught based on a mindset aligned with the industrial revolution. We were taught based on hierarchies, the teachers and principals were at the...
Leadership
The problem is how we have been trained to behave The problem is we have been trained to manage the work to be done, not lead the team doing the work. The adoption of an AgileData Way of Working results in a change in the way people work and behave. It changes the...
Project Managers who have done standups
The problem is there is more to Scrum than just standups We often see a Project Manager joining the AgileData team as a Scrum Coach because they have “done standups” before. Unfortunately, lots of organisations seem to think that running standups is all you need to do...
Agile Benefits
The need for benefit statements An AgileData Way of Working provides a number of benefits to both the team who are working that way and to the stakeholders who receive the Information Products the teams deliver. Ideally the team are empowered to work this way from day...