What is coming after agile?

Here my comments that I can sustain, but are just my comments. DevOps has no sense. DevOps is a new buzzword used to sell something that name in other way the same problem that presists from 1956 up to date: configuration management. I am saying that no matter I am in charge to implement SAFe (other thing with no sense) and DevOps in my actual work place. Obviously, I was part of the decision to implement that and I have put my arguments (with demostration and without subjectivity) on the table but no matter that the company decided to go forward, Regarding the group, it was not dismantled. The endeavor ends as planned and the deliverable were created taking into account that was a mix between theory and practice (the most important companies in the world put in practice the theory in real world projects). Most of the deliverables they are inside the Rick Dove´s book "Response Ability" and inside the Rick Dove´s website (most of them with some kind of adaptation from Rick). Today, people that created the Buisness Agility Manifesto (I have collaborated on that) took those ideas (https://busagilitymanifesto.org/). Lean is not Agile. Lean gives flexibility while Agile gives agility which are not the same (I am not saying one is better than other. In fact, in my actual work place, while we transformed the whole enterprise to Agile we are using Lean too, mainly in manufacturing).

I think the AI and machine learning comes later. In the nearer term, I think we will see our data sources more tightly integrated.

Project planning and engineering have gone from written down on paper, to managed in programs, to managed in integrated databases in recent history. Things like blockchains that Sergio touched on, rely on algorithms that collect and integrate different pieces of data and know how to assemble them in the right order. That can take a lot of manual work away from a PM simply collecting and organizing different bits of information.

Where the PM today has a schedule separate from the cost estimate and the tasks, technology can lump those together for us. We can have different views of the data, like the schedule view, but the ability to manage the who, what, when, how, and how much, all together for each planning step will give us the ability to use a more modular approach to building complex plans. How we combine those data modules into a complete plan will be necessarily different, just like going from paper ledgers to spreadsheets changed things.

I think that just like how when word processors took the place of typewriters and the office roles changed, as the different data sources we already use get more tightly integrated, the process for how we build and manage plans will also change significantly.

Thanks for your insight Thomas. Nature is wisdom.

You´re right. First step is about integration & automation.

Streamlining and automating tasks through integration and process automation.

Integration and automation are not new, they are the essence of Lean SIx SIgma and are done in manufacturing for more than 100 years. Automation doesn't mean computers. For the younger generation it is good to know that the first media to store data (punch cards) was not invented for computers but for manufacturing, to automate the weaving.
It is interested that most of 'post Agile' proposals are a sort of back to the future...
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