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| I am so excited to be attending the PMI Global Congress coming up September 25-27th in San Diego. As an invitee of ProjectManagement.com it is quite an honor to be chosen to represent our profession. I can't wait to see you all there! By the way as an invitee I get to be available to answer your questions in 15 minute one-on-one sessions throughout the 3 days.
As my focus is on agility and the strategic level I thought I'd kick things off with my thoughts on agility. Agile (the noun) is what everyone uses - vendors and practitioners alike - to refer to a plethora of frameworks (e.g. Scrum), methods (e.g. DSDM), practices and techniques (e.g. time-boxing).
But there's a problem with the using the word Agile in this way. Let me explain.
Most people refer to "The Agile Manifesto" but did you know that it is actually called "The Manifesto for Agile Software Development"? The placement of the word in the name of the manifesto matters as it changes it from being a noun (a named thing) to being an adjective (a characteristic or the behavior of a thing). So why does that matter?
It matters because when we think it's a noun we then think it is all about the frameworks, methods, practices and techniques. In my training courses I use the following phrase to describe the concept of agility in a module I have called "The history of Agility Thinking"::
"Agility is mindset,
defined by values,
guided by principles,
manifested through practice"
While practices are how to bring the values and principles of the manifesto to ground in our actions, they aren't an agility mindset. An agility mindset means we are adaptive - we can observe what is happening, we can inspect it, make decisions based on our interpretations of what we are observing, and then adapt what we do next based on that. Being adaptable is a behavior
The values and principles we apply as we inspect and adapt can be those of the manifesto or they can be those of our organization that reflect agility (see my webinar on Organizational Agility for more).
The practices part is the short version of "frameworks, methods, practices and techniques" - I use the single word practices for simplicity sake.
So agility really starts with us being personally adaptable. Put another way:
Adaptability is the behavior.
Agility is the result.
Agility thinking actually spans many decades if not centuries (a topic for another day). As important as Snowbird, UT was in 2001 to bringing the agility mindset to the software development space, it did not invent the concept, nor the word agile, and it certainly did not refer to it as a noun.
What do you think?
If you want to discuss this and more at the PMI Global Congress from September 25-27th in San Diego I'll be there and waiting for you!
See you in San Diego!
Yours in Agility,
Larry
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