What is Agile?

Agile takes the best of the world’s history of getting things done and rolls it into a single framework. We know that people work better in teams; we know that trusting relationships have better results than legal documents; we know that predicting the future is super hard; we know that the proof is in the pudding. 

We also know that 3 things 100% done are more useful than 10 things 75% done. And finally, we all know the phrases: “one day at a time”, “one game at a time”, and “keep your eye on the ball”. 

Agile takes these intuitive truths and brings them into the world of serving you customer and improving your organization. Agile is not a prescriptive dogma. It is a set of activities and methods that can be used individually to make things better, and collectively to make things great.

Agile takes practice and disciple. But just like that play you were in, or the concert you practiced for, you will be happy with the ovation at the end. It’s worth it.

What Can Agile Do for You?

Agile is a very simple, yet powerful set of principles and activities that will allow your organization or project team to be the best, do the best and feel like a valuable and important contributor to your success.  

It improves internal communication, reliability, trust, and integrity.  It also encourages people to apply their talent and smarts toward your organizational goals.

Agile activities are applied incrementally, in short interations.  This allows leadership and the people who work for you to adjust, contribute and feel part of making things better.  It also allows us to measure our progress every week, in some cases everyday. You can see and feel the change as it unfolds.  There may be obstacles, but Agile lets you face them together, directly and swiftly.