Thinking about Agile. A blog about agile leadership, organizational change issues related to the adoption of Agile methods and how help shift a culture of command and control to one that is more eco-centric. By eco-centric the idea that software development happens in a culture of diversity, shared responsibility, collaboration, deep communication, awareness, clarity and balance.
Think about an ecosystem and you’ll see balance and harmony in nature. The balance isn’t tipped in favor of one as all rely on the systems in place. When the balance is disrupted then we find lack of trust, low vulnerability, ego-facing leaders and blame as being dominant features in the software development ecology.
What are the cultural rules for adopting Agile behaviors?
What does agile leadership look like, feel like, sound like and taste like?
How do we shift from a culture dominated by control mechanisms to one that is based on creation resources?
How do you get the best from everyone?
Where does change really start? It starts with individual at any place in the organization. Leaders need to listen, well, everyone needs to listen more. Customer’s listening to developer’s, developers listening to customers, leaders listening to everyone and with deep listening find ways to innovate better, produce better and function wholly as a unit rather than adversaries.
It takes a commitment to change, understand, reflect and adopt new ways of thinking. It moves from an “I’m right” culture to “we are right” culture. Responsibility is shared and responsibility is embraced, changes are made when they need to be made, and the change comes from the whole rather than from one.
It is a new way of thinking, behaving and working.
Thinking about Agile 