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To Agile or Not to Agile


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Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its many variants. In this episode I talk to Raj Heda, who helps organisations roll out agile methodologies. I was interested to find out, why "Agile" has become so successful, and what it is organisations need to look out for when they roll it out.

I also wrote a brief blog post on Medium on the subject: https://medium.com/@pweschmidt/is-agile-still-agile-a13b20230bc 

There is plenty of material on agile methodologies out there. But here are a few pointers, some of which were also mentioned in the interview

  • Agile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org 
  • Scrum https://www.scrum.org 
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) https://www.scaledagileframework.com 
  • Kanban https://businessmap.io/kanban-resources/getting-started/what-is-kanban 
  • What is Lean? https://theleanway.net/what-is-lean 
  • Toyota Just in Time manufacturing https://www.rcbi.org/updates/lean-manufacturing-made-toyota-the-success-story-it-is-today/ 
  • John Kotter: 8 steps to lead change https://www.kotterinc.com/8-step-process-for-leading-change/ 
  • Simon Sinek: empathy and perspective https://github.com/dwyl/leadership/issues/4 
  • Business Agility Institute: https://businessagility.institute 
  • Digital AI (publisher of the State of Agile annual survey): https://digital.ai  (go to Resources in the nav bar and select State of Agile)

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