Is agile still in practice?

I would like to understand it but I still can't find it in my organization, I am very traditional

Josh -

An organization can develop a set of methods which incorporate agile values and principles.

As such there are infinite possible methods based on agile.

PRINCE2 is another set of methods which covers both adaptive and predictive lifecycles.

Kiron

I read an interesting article, yesterday, on the failure of six sigma. What the author failed to understand is that six sigma hasn't failed in the areas where it was applied appropriately and correctly. Some companies have stopped using it because, through using it, their quality has improved, and now they have other problems to solve that six sigma cannot fix. In other companies, the hype around it led to trying to use it to solve problems that six sigma doesn't solve.

I'm a little surprised that agile hasn't hit this same point, yet, on a large scale. There are a growing number of voices calling out for using the right tool for the job (i.e. not everything can be done using Scrum), and applying so-called agile principles to predictive approaches, but I still run into agile purists who believe everything should be Scrum or some other form of iterative approach.

I think that organizational agility is more critical to the success of an organization, and for projects to be successful you need to choose the best approach for your organizational/team culture, type of work to be done, and customer needs/tolerances.