Remember that Agile is about Quality and Business Value
by Mike Caspar, 10 July 2011 | Agile Adoption
This post is from Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, OpenAgile, Lean) by Mike Caspar. Click here to see the original post in full.
Recently, I had an interesting discussion with a companion about Agile Processes and the need for corporations, communities or groups to change their approach to planning and doing work. We were discussing using OpenAgile as a Framework.
The person I was talking to told me that their group (Artists) were already used to and embraced the idea of shared responsibility, self-organization, mutual respect and open discussion to get things done. OpenAgile (as well as Scrum) require open communication and truthfulness to be effective tools for self-organization.
My friend then told me how it made sense in the Art Community but it would be hard for Financially minded people to believe in what Agile was about and that it would be even harder for financially oriented educators (ie: Universities and Colleges) to change their minds...read more
