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Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile

Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile

Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning


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Published
February 2021
Publisher
Wiley
Chapters
16

About the course

Agile is broken.

Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, "63% of respondents stated the failure of agile implementation in their organizations." The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in agile.

Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve their chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as "agile team rooms", and "an overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community," the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago.

"Agile 2" represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. With a new set of Agile principles to take Agile forward over the next 20 years, Agile 2 is applicable beyond software and hardware to all parts of an agile organization including "Agile HR", "Agile Finance", and so on.

Like the original "Agile", "Agile 2", is just a set of ideas - powerful ideas. To undertake any endeavor, a single set of ideas is not enough. But a single set of ideas can be a powerful guide.

Authors

Cliff Berg

Cliff Berg

Cliff Berg is a consultant and founder of Agile Griffin, which specializes in the integration of Agile and DevOps.

Kurt Cagle

Kurt Cagle

Kurt Cagle is a consultant and Community Editor of Data Science Central and is a Forbes contributor.

Lisa Cooney

Lisa Cooney

Lisa Cooney is the Agile Coach at Axios. She is on the program committee for the Business Agility Institute’s conferences in New York City.

Philippa Fewell

Philippa Fewell

Philippa Fewell is Managing Director of Agile Services at CCPace. She has trained and practiced Agile, including XP, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe for over 15 years.

Adrian Lander

Adrian Lander

Adrian Lander is Founder of Agnostic Agile.

Raj Nagappan

Raj Nagappan

Raj Nagappan is Founder and CEO of Catum.

Murray Robinson

Murray Robinson

Murray Robinson is an ICAgile Authorised Instructor and Scrum Master.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 2: Specific Problems
Chapter 3: Leadership: The Core Issue
Chapter 4: Ingredients That Are Needed
Chapter 5: Kinds of Leadership Needed
Chapter 6: What Effective Collaboration Looks Like
Chapter 7: It's All About the Product
Chapter 8: Product Design and Agile 2
Chapter 9: Moving Fast Requires Real-Time Risk Management
Chapter 10: A Transformation Is a Journey
Chapter 11: DevOps and Agile 2
Chapter 12: Agile 2 at Scale
Chapter 13: System Engineering and Agile 2
Chapter 14: Agile 2 in Service Domains
Chapter 15: Conclusion
Chapter 16: Index

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February 2021
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