What kills agility?
Why Agile if you already do Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or Waterfall?
Documents, spreadsheets…, Excels over Excels, meetings over meetings, without much impact… team misalignments realized too late… How we manage an organization defines its quality. Excellent management is crucial to avoid the Waterfall trap if we aim to build an Agile environment. But why would we want that? What’s wrong with the way we already work?
If you are already happy with how you work and your system, that’s perfectly fine. You might not need to continue reading. However, are you so satisfied that you don’t need to reevaluate your work (and how you work!) to look for potential improvements?
I am referring to evaluating your system and how you and the people around you act as part of it. What we thought worked years ago might differ from what we could discover today — as part of continuous improvement.
I dislike politics — pure Game of Thrones style — where each team looks out for themselves instead of a bigger shared direction. This results in daily work filled with fear from above, passed down to the people below, maintaining an unhealthy working environment.
