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Sunday, June 21, 2020

State of Agility 2020: Effective vs Aspirational Zone of Influence of Agile Community at the dawn of 2020s

I am going to start this blog post by repeating how I started of my blog post back in April on the Obstacles to Agile adoption and Aspirations for 2020s

Instead of "doing" more Agile transformations and expecting to see different outcomes, get out of the hamster wheel and allow yourself for a deeper reflection. This reflection of mine on the Obstacles of Agile adoption and Aspiration for 2020s is an invitation to Inspect & Adapt the decade of 2010s, build on it and move forward in 2020s.

Staying in the above context, today I am sharing another 1000s words worth image that basically says: Hey, Agile Community, it is time to reflect as we have been investing our efforts sub-optimally and have been missing out a lot of unexplored potential for a bigger change in the dominating style of ways of working of today's companies. 

I initially planned to write a longer article about the situation and how the Agile Community actually engages in organisational transformations, what value we generate and what can be improved. Well, after sketching the below image I think there is no more need for writing anything more - the image is pretty clear where we are at the dawn of 2020s...

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2 comments:

  1. While I find this picture interesting and resonating with my experience I do not understand what you mean by including "laws of economy". Do you think Agile Community is at all capable to influence laws of economy? And that is should do it?

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  2. @Hukajacy Kot, the answer in my case is definitely yes! I mean, for me the ultimate goal is to create ideal companies. Agile was the first profound step in this direction. A huge lesson learnt how a great idea can transform companies from within.
    At some point it became clear to me that next steps, as described in my Good Companies book, require interventions beyond borders of a company: the relation of companies to societies is key for example. Laws of the economy determine what is important to companies and how they behave. The road to ideal companies needs to take this realization into account. Agents of change need to start acting in these two areas. Otherwise, as is the case nowadays - we encounter the agent - arena unfittedness, one of the explanations why "Agility does not stick" in so many places.
    p.s. I have been talking about these topics quite frequently this year, join one of the sessions and contribute your thoughts to the discussion!

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