Diana Larsen on the Origins of Agility and Agile Fluency
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