November 16, 2016, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…Agile
By Darrell Gurney | Blog
“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.” –Wendy Mass
Things are going to change.
We can’t stay fixed on people, places or organizations resembling what they did yesterday. For sure, we don’t want to fixate on ourselves resembling yesterday.
What makes change tolerable, and even fun, is being agile.
It’s not only a word used to describe someone nimble and quick — like Jack jumping over the candlestick — but a process utilized in software development which focuses on short phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans.
Giving up the expectation that anyone or anything will stay the same or that, in adapting, we’ll “get it right the first time” allows us the patience to stay on the playing field…with an emphasis on “play”.
Try a new approach? Conduct an experiment? Design a new context within which to hold it all?
Where can you bring playful adaptation to changing plans, people and places today?
Got agile?
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react and reinvent.” –Bill Gates