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UPGRADE YOUR MINDSET
A Different Take on Agile
Agile should be simple, easy and pragmatic. It starts with a mindset and it delivers better results, while elegantly navigating change and uncertainty.
Agile should not be fancy or dogmatic; there's no room for framework fanaticism or absolute truths, and there's no one single 'right way' to do things.
Everyone is nowadays familiar with the project management tool launched over 20 years ago. Then, in 2019, Atlassian launched Jira's "Big Brother" - Jira Align.
The framework that gave the world the Agile Release Train has been adopted by more than 20K businesses and has a community of over 1 Mil. SAFe practitioners.
Driven by a need to reduce staff and cut costs, a lot of companies have stopped investing in business agility and organizational transformation.
It seems unimaginable that a museum or the military could work in sprints, adapt to fast changes, or deliver incrementally. And yet...
This concept puts the power in the hands of the teams themselves, allowing them to have a say in how the budget is allocated. As opposed to top-down decision-making, in this scenario it's all about collaboration and transparency.
Dean Leaffingwell: "Every business is a software business now. Agility isn't an option, it is a business imperative."
Value flow is a fundamental concept in SAFe, focused on delivering value to customers in an effective manner.
We tend to see Agile as a “Millennial thing”, something that sprung out of nowhere at the turn of the 21st century, but it all started in the '50s.
Scrum seems to have been around since forever (If you were born in early '90s, then you're the same age as Scrum. Feeling old yet?)
At its core, Kanban is about visualizing the work that needs to be done, limiting the amount of work in progress, and optimizing the flow of work.
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