Musab barakati

     Agile is gaining a lot of traction due to the results companies get from proper transformations. This was further seen during the covid19 pandemic as agile companies adapted faster. However, this creates a new problem of the quality of Agile transformations. There is increasing demand but quality of supply cannot keep up. Many transformation efforts are falling into chaos instead of agility and that causes hatred for agile as reflex. This bad implementation is what is referred to as fake agile, and I even heard the term organized chaos. An agile transformation has 3 main dimensions. Culture, structures and processes (or practices). Culture has always been elusive, the agile culture is centered around a mindset that has the values stated in the Agile manifesto as a foundation. Then comes structure, structure provides the depth and is more actionable, yet still difficult, compared to culture. Processes are the most actionable and easiest to understand. This fake Agile ...

The startup story usually goes something like this. Someone or a group of people find a problem, and they realize they might have a solution for it. If the team is smart, they will start building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for their product. This MVP will get some traction and learning. Then they will try to sell and improve or pivot their product. This will allow them to look for investment, and with their good preparation and a lot of effort, they get it. Done! Even after that, 75% of startups fail . So you got that investment, now what? Scale. However, “Somewhere around 25 employees, everything breaks.” That's not good!! To avoid breaking, what should scale is an adaptive startup. An adaptive company is not a set of processes but a culture guided by the agile. According to Peter Drucker “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” the Agile mindset aims to achieve the following: Self managing teams: I was once in a retrospective with a team and one member said something that surp...