- Agile Software Development has gone mainstream and is considered industry best-practice.
- Many companies are getting substantial benefits from Agile, but it’s not a silver bullet. VersionOne Survey.
- The main benefits from Agile come from its mindset/culture of collaboration and learning.
- Agile culture is incompatible with most organizations.
- Two main paths to success.
- One: limit Agile practices to those that fit your organizational culture. Small effort, small benefit. Tour of Agile Adoption and Transformation Models.
- Two: foster a new culture within your organization. Big effort, big benefit. Diverse Path to High-performance Culture.
- Lack of awareness of culture or leads to widespread failure to get full benefits of Agile. Agile – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
- If you want innovation and creativity, then culture matters more than Agile practices. Workshop on Characteristics of High-Performance Organizations.
- There are great ways to influence culture for those looking for large benefits. eg. KrisMap: An Organisation’s Persona
