anAgileMind
Welcome to anAgileMind. Do you do agile or are you actually being agile? Many practitioners agree that true agility is about mindset, behaviour, and values. Yet this mindset is ill-defined with little integrated information that is easy to find or learn from.
In anAgileMind we are attempting to create a working definition of what the agile mindset is – what are the behaviours and values that we should embody? Our starting point is Behaviours and Values. Our end point is day-to-day practice. You can read more about the ideas that underpin our thinking here.
Read, learn, enjoy – if you want, why not contribute? Most of all become agile.
Why Should I Care?
“Engineers need to start NOT with the how, how, how of design but with the why, why, why…”
Advice from many experts suggests we should care deeply about why something is important to us. If we understand why, then we can communicate and implement our ideas much more effectively. This video explores the importance of why
The core of agile thinking is to optimise the performance of an organisation whilst maximising the satisfaction of the human beings involved in doing the work. You can read more about why you should care about these ideas here.
Learn more about the importance of Why
Core Components of anAgileMind
Principles provide an intermediate point of change between Values and Behaviours and Practices. We can adopt a principle. We can identify when we fail to adhere to the principle. We can learn and improve. Behaviours are hard to change. Practices are too superficial and do not drive the deep change needed to be agile.
Additional Components of anAgileMind
In the agile world there are many ideas or concepts (for want of a better term) that can help us to identify problems, find solutions or simply improve our ability to be agile. These ideas do not neatly fit the other categories used in anAgileMind so we have grouped them here - at least for the time being.
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