Agile - what's next?
I've been dabbing with Agile mindset and all its related methodologies, frameworks, practices, tools and everything in between for quite some time. Specifically since 2009. And before that I have been managing projects and people for some years as well.
Fast forward 2017. Courses, workshops, certifications blossom. Corporations run to become "Agile" whatever that means. Blogs and websites spur a little bit everywhere we look. Communities, books and LinkedIn profiles supporting CSM, PSM, Lean, Agile and every single acronym you can think of are all around, somewhat overwhelmingly.
Recently I have been to Agile Portugal conference. And the talks and keynotes, as interesting as they have been, all revolved around what seemed to be more of the same and not really anything new emerged. All except a couple of sessions where the tone was disruptive. In the sense of questions exactly that there's need for innovation.
Granted we need to spread the word and Agile 101 will always be needed but I have not seen Agile evolve as much as I would love to see. Usually talks and workshops go around Scrum. Sometimes we get a bit of Kanban, a bit of Lean. More often than not blogs, books and articles mess up concepts, terms and just mix up everything without regard and sometimes very little respect for the philosophy.
So I ask. What's next for Agile? Comments are welcomed. Really, I am asking, what's next?
Platform Architect - Ecommerce Logistics - Maersk
7 年Great question, thanks. I'll try my answer. What's next for the Agile masses? 1 - "engineering practices, CD and devops" - we have a big shift to something related to what software craftmanship represented in a way but devops embraced totally which is the importance of the so often overlooked, but fundamental, engineering practices (from TDD, CI, CD to devops stuff like InfrastructureAsCode, containers, microservices, deployment strategies, etc, etc, etc). This is far from being mainstream today and it is fundamental in any Agile journey. 2 - "lean, not scrum" - I like the concept of "post-Scrum Agile" where more importance will be given to lean, lean thinking, lean software development, etc. 3 - "real customer focus", not water-scrum-fail - more focus on the 1st Agile principle "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer", an Agile challenge corporate Agile adoptions do not cope well with (imho, largely because of the existence of a scrum role called PO that mirrors siloed structures and mentalities) 4 - "no silver bullet" - more people (and coaches) will stop selling Agile (or worse, Scrum) as the silver bullet that it is not I may be totally wrong or miss informed, but Id like to know what you think of these ones. Thanks, Luis