Agile is dead. We need to be agile!
1 min readJan 26, 2023
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Everyone wants to be “Agile.” But nobody even understands what “being Agile” means today.
Agile is dead. We all know it.
And that’s a good thing. Why?
I understand the sentiment. Agile Manifesto was needed at that time. But sentiments aside, apart from values, it was a Project Manifesto with:
- Someone external to DEVs “changing the requirements” (the build trap)
- Working software as “the primary measure of progress” (output)
- Just doing and listening to the customer (customer-vendor, B2B only)
So I encourage you to use “agile” from the dictionary. Forget about the obsolete “A.” And focus on what matters today:
- Long-term strategy over short-sighted goals
- Customer value over temporary business gains
- Discovering what to build over implementing someone’s ideas
- Missionaries over mercenaries
- Valuable outcomes over working output
- Learning from the data over trusting stakeholders’ opinions
- Eliminating waste over welcoming it every iteration
- Continuous improvement over learning in batches
- Releasing often over regular internal reviews
Bonus: People and interactions over immutable frameworks.
Anything else?