Reimagining Agility

The other day I was facilitating a Business Agility Meetup in which I brought in some different viewpoints from a typically "non-agile" vertical - construction. As I introduced this talk I used the adage that many of us who have spent the majority of our time in the digital/IT space use when we are talking to folks about agility - "if you are building a bridge or a building then you want to use waterfall, but if you want to build digital products use agile." I apologized virtually to all of the folks I know in the construction business because I was wrong. You don't have to stay with legacy thought and approaches any more. It is time to reimagine what agility means and looks like in our world.

When I say reimagine, some of the agilists I know will come running out of their colorful open spaces with large printed BVIR's (big visible information radiators A.K.A. posters) of the agile manifesto yelling, "blasphemy!" but please let me be clear: the principles and ideas of agility are solid and I believe are solid and applicable. We have gotten ourselves stuck in a proverbial quagmire with how we envision, implement, and innovate, however, and need to "reimagine agility."

What does this look like to you? What does reimagining look like? Want more information? An extended blog will be up on joshuajack.com soon!