The Agile landscape – should we care?

Yes, “agile” is an umbrella term, the word was chosen by the signatories of the agile manifesto. Who-ever would be referring to the agile method, doesn’t understand what agile refers to.

The existence of many agile methods, frameworks and approaches (no, Scrum is not the only agile method) for single teams and multiple teams illustrates the continuous journey of exploring and uncovering new and better ways of developing products. And that’s a good thing, isn’t it? It would be worrying if the whole world would agree for a single method or way of working.

Illustrations as the one below show the diversity of methods in the whole “agile” landscape.

agile-landscape

Some thoughts…

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Agile Manifesto Values add-on for large enterprises

We are uncovering better ways of working in large enterprises by doing it and helping others do it.

We value:

Delighting Customers First over Shareholder Returns First

Focusing on Delighting Customers First leads to Shareholder Returns

Enterprise-Wide Agility over Agile for Software Development only

Optimise for flow, learning and feedback along the whole value stream

Empowered Product Teams over Command & Control Role based Work Passing

Long live teams with high Alignment, Autonomy and Safety aligned to value stream

Achieving Big through Small over Achieving Big through Big

Small teams, hypothesis-driven investment, optimise for flow, for better outcomes faster

 

That is. We used to value to things on the right, we now value the things on the left more.

 

Source: https://medium.com/@jonathansmart1/agile-manifesto-values-add-on-for-large-enterprises-f3fdc1abcd65#.wtautdxcw