When we created the Agility Activation learning path, we wanted to help practitioners overcome a misconception that has become ingrained in the Agile community, that misconception is that you can only become Agile by using Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or another framework out there. We simply ask practitioners to show us where in the Agile Manifesto it says you can only use one of these frameworks.
Part of the problem here is that we often say that a framework like Scrum is good at surfacing impediments, but the truth is that it doesn’t provide tools to do root cause analysis and truly remove these impediments. Even though Scrum teams will capture impediments in their retrospectives and create stories around them, the true impediments simply linger and are never resolved.
Instead, we suggest that practitioners and organizations borrow from proven practices such as value stream mapping and the theory of constraints to raise the true impediments and then borrow from methods like Workout, Tiger Teams, Flashbuilds and 30-Day Challenges to finally knock out these lingering impediments.
These are a few of the themes we cover in the Agility Activation Learning Path.
