Steve Denning is author of this article explaining what fake Agile is, how to identify it and how to deal with it. With the growing recognition that “Agile is eating the world,” surveys by Deloitte and McKinsey show that more than 90% of senior executives give high priority to becoming agile.
A particularly unfortunate form of “branded Agile” concerns scaling frameworks. These are schemes aimed at helping firms that have some teams implementing Agile practices and want to resolve the tension between the Agile teams and the back-office systems of the organization (such as strategy, planning, budget, HR, Finance) which are typically monolithic and bureaucratic.
The article covers:
- Agile defined
- The three laws of Agile
- Law of the Customer
- Law of the Small Team
- Law of the Network
- Agile without the label
- Early-stage Agile
- Agile in name only
- Agile for software only
- Stalled agile journeys
… and more patterns in the article. Really insightful!
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