What’s agile?

Sergio, thank you for the "eureka" moment. Much of my learning has been focused on the details that I have not been able to see the overarching problem and how to identify and then remedy it. I have definitely learned a lot today!

JAJAJAJJA, Thank you very much my friends. Here I am. First of all, I always comment about Agile because I firmly believe that the general confusion outside there jeopardizes the work for all of us and mainly the intentions of people that are trying to find a job. All I will write as follows can be checked and my only objective is that: search for the basement and the real information. Here I comes. By definition, the definition created in 1990 inside the USA DoD NSF/Agility Forum and then taking by creators of methods for software development based on Agile (I worked with some of them like Arie Van Bennekum) Agile is "a way of behave and thinking with focus on client and quality". When you use behave Agile then you gain into agility which is "the ability to respond to changes and to create changes". That is the reason because Agile is not the same of Lean, while Agile was born trying as an innovation on Lean.

I personally was waiting for you Sergio haha :D

Thanks Friends for I am learning a lot from you. Is it correct or not to assume that for as long we deliver the scope of our projects on time, within budget, with quality and with our stakeholders happy, we are on the right track regardless whether we are using Agile or not? :)

Agile is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles called "sprints" to focus on continuous improvement when developing a product or service.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) states "Agile approaches to project management aim for early, measurable ROI through defined, iterative delivery of product increments. They feature continuous involvement of the customer throughout the product development cycle. Although agile has its roots in software and IT, agile adoption is growing and expanding in a wide range of industries." https://www.pmi.org/learning/featured-topics/agile

That´s the point @Robert. You are right. What you stated is totally independent to the practice you are using. For example, you can use Agile practice with waterfall life cycle, Key is to understand that anything you use will impact the organization as a whole (systemic theory applied to organizations). I saw you are working in Telecom. I helped one of the top three organizations to use Agile (we use an Agile based method in this case) into an initiative where the main objective was to install 4G technology to get a dominant position in that field before its competitors. It was a software based project? Not at all. The key component was to install antennas. Why to use Agile? The driver was to create a change into the environment that made others to follow it. How the organization decide it? Taking into account the type of product to create, the environmental conditions, the organizational architecture.