Engineering Culture by InfoQ

Diana Larsen on the Origins of Agility and Agile Fluency

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Diana Larsen about the origins of what became agile development, where business agility is header and the agile fluency project . Why listen to this podcast: • There is a deep history of business improvement initiatives that predates the agile manifesto • It was a part of a cultural movement that was moving more toward more humane workplaces that could deliver more value • When you give people a good environment and good support to do their work, you get better work and better products • The ideas of business agility predate the work in agile development – engaging support structures in organisations to enable change • You can't change one part of a system without it having effects on other parts of the system • The Agile Fluency Model is a tool to help teams diagnose themselves and to expose the system to leadership More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3acIJwf You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3acIJwf

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