2 thoughts on “Introducing agile into an organisation”
Hi Jon,
An interesting insight. One key one for me is recognising that in using ‘Agile’, you are actually using a ‘flavour’ of Agile as you allude – DSDM, SCRUM, etc. This needs to be clear, and as you point out, staff require appropriate training. The ‘business’ also needs to understand how a project might develop, and needs to be included from the start.
Yes that was one thing that struck me during this week’s #pmchat – the ambiguity of the term ‘agile’.
Some people use the terms ‘agile’ and ‘scrum’ interchangeably when in fact scrum is just a subset of agile frameworks such as DSDM Atern. I feel a blog coming on called ‘Scrum is not the be all and end all of agile’ or perhaps that’s all I need to say on the subject!
Thanks for your comments – its always nice to know that someone is looking at my stuff!
Hi Jon,
An interesting insight. One key one for me is recognising that in using ‘Agile’, you are actually using a ‘flavour’ of Agile as you allude – DSDM, SCRUM, etc. This needs to be clear, and as you point out, staff require appropriate training. The ‘business’ also needs to understand how a project might develop, and needs to be included from the start.
Regards,
Ed
Hi Ed,
Yes that was one thing that struck me during this week’s #pmchat – the ambiguity of the term ‘agile’.
Some people use the terms ‘agile’ and ‘scrum’ interchangeably when in fact scrum is just a subset of agile frameworks such as DSDM Atern. I feel a blog coming on called ‘Scrum is not the be all and end all of agile’ or perhaps that’s all I need to say on the subject!
Thanks for your comments – its always nice to know that someone is looking at my stuff!
Cheers,
Jon