Naveen Kumar Singh
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia... Read more
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia... Read more
I was invited to share my knowledge on agile to the management team today in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). I thought it is about how an organization responds to change and wanted to understand what agile means. I tried to go a little deeper to help everyone understand: -
What is agile – I asked everyone what agile means to them. They responded very well by saying “being flexible”, “respond faster”, “move quickly” and “adapt to change” etc.
This gave me confidence about moving towards organisation agility. Meanwhile, I asked them where did they hear all these terms? It helped me to point them towards “Manifesto of Agile Software Development” and highlighted that all these keywords are beautifully written inside the manifesto.
Since participants were from non-IT and my understanding was that they wanted to understand where and how it is applicable beyond software development, I skipped principles of agile software development.
Nevertheless, I focused on organization agility including supply chain, marketing, production, sales, vendor management and many other functions within the organisational structure.
There was no problem statement and just a framework. I felt bad and wanted to stop but could not. I wanted them to think deeper before jumping on any framework but everybody was already there and I was late.
In the end, she showed Stacey's chart and pointed the same way that I have seen in the presentation. Agile doesn’t apply in a simple or complicated zone but more for the complex zone. She didn’t mention anything about Stacey either and ended up with squad, tribe and chapters.
Next time if anyone calls me to share what is agile, I feel it’s better to check what’s their intention? Is someone going to use me as put forward own agenda? Do participants have any reason to look for agile or just wanted to understand what it is? Or how well they know more about agile and Scrum? Are they referring that Scrum = agile?
If it is about exploring, better to share one of the approaches to be agile rather getting into why agile and what agile means. Don’t touch topic such as organisation agility or business agility unless asked for.
How will you respond if you are stuck in my situation and are not sure what participants are looking for? Feel free to write me on naveen@agilemania.com.
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia Pacific. He works with the software development team and product team to develop awesome products based on empirical processes.
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