Sunday 15 April 2018

Agile In Three Or 3 Words

How many times have I heard the following from new clients and other coaches telling stories about their "difficult" clients? That's why I crafted this post!

3 Words Of Agile Everyone Can Understand
Agile In 3 Words Is Easy

Actually explaining agile quickly, succinctly and simply for anyone, or any team or any organisation of any size is really easy, if you do the work (inspired by Byron Katie). It's simply you, and everyone in your organisation, and every supplier, client, consultant, advisor, regulator and customer around your organisation offering really often:


"Can I help?"


For agile in 3 words it is as simple as this! The implication is that everyone proacts to help each other all the time with everything from making tea to delivering the most complex system requiring 100's of people interlocking and aligning.

As an agile coach one of the things I look/listen out for when assessing the agile fluency of an organisation is how many times I hear the above line, and especially its followup which is highly noticeable in environments where there is a great deal of proaction - namely:

"Thank you!"


Now, go do the work! Thankyou for reading and supporting! :-)

1 comment:

Rob Brown said...

For more very short intro's into agile look through the other agile adoption posts I've collated at <a href="http://change-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/what-is-agile-for-you-what-is-agile-for.html>What is Agile</a>.

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