Stay Agile , Stay Relevant

Let’s get started the standard way and answer - What is Agile ? One of the literal meaning of being agile is the ability to move quick and easy , yes it’s that simple and important and it aptly fits into scheme of things when we related it with software development.

World is changing and changing fast, way out ? "Stay Agile Stay Relevant ".

Agile Manifesto created in 2001 defined four core values :

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools,
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan.

Putting it in different perspective , it’s about Collaboration , Empowered teams , Accountability , Transparency , Inspect and adapt , Prioritization . I strongly believe if we aim for and achieve these we can claim to be agile in true sense and yes organization success  will be sure shoot byproduct .

Now on the how part ,there are multiple methodologies inspired by agile values which can be your navigator - Scrum (Probably the most popular one ) , Kanban , Scrum ban ,Lean , XP ..etc . Some of us might be thinking , ok... all this is fine , but can agile really make sense to big multination organizations  having their  cross functional teams spread across continents ? valid question , but the good part is there exist answer and ways to fix that - SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework ), Oracle PLM(Product Lifecycle management )  for instance are couple of them among multiple others ,over the years  many organizations have successfully crafted and implemented their in-house scaled methodologies based on agile principles and learnings .

Let’s remember one of the key principle of agile , i.e inspect and adapt , so go and figure out what suits best for your team or organization .

To summarize : Inspect and Adapt - GO AGILE