Agile or not: dealing with uncertainty
After going to a ‘Scrum of scrums’ meeting this morning, and then watching how we tried to deal with an uncertain situation by trying to find certainty this afternoon, I was thinking about what it means to be ‘doing Agile’.
And in one of those synchronous moments (with the help of Twitter) I stumbled across a blog post called ‘Agile is dead‘. It wasn’t the post, it was the name of the blog that gave me a little light bulb moment; Extreme Uncertainty. It made me remember what Agile is really about. Agile is about dealing with uncertainty.
If you work in two week sprints but your way of working doesn’t help your team or organisation dealing with uncertainty, you aren’t Agile, whether you like it or not. If you do things that help your team or organisation deal effectively with uncertainty, then you’re Agile.