“It is good to see a fresh look into the Agile ways of working which to me seems more adaptive and inclusive now.…I had presented the Agile 2 values to my leadership and happy to report that it has been received well. I must say that in Agile 2 the ideas have been designed very well.”

– a self-described Agile 2 enthusiast

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Introduction to Agile 2^®

The Agile experiment was only a partial success: Agile now needs to pivot!

The Agile movement took us away from big up-front plans, micromanagement, and projects-by-numbers. It shifted the focus from big initiatives to small teams, from big promises to incremental deliveries, and from handoffs between specialists to collaboration and self-sufficiency.

But it dismissed the importance of leadership, structure, forethought, and individual differences. It defined one-size-fits-all practices, often favoring some styles of work over others, and too often defined by frameworks or methodologies that were pushed in an all-or-nothing way by their most ardent advocates. Despite its technical roots, Agile also quickly devalued the importance of engineering; and it did not even mention the importance of information and data – things that were strategically important when Agile was born and are even more so today.

These are not small things. We therefore realized that a fresh start was needed – not an incremental one: a start that is informed by the first Agile experiment, but that does not hesitate to make major departures: a new beginning. We call it Agile 2.

Read a summary of Agile 2 here.

If you want to read more about why we think an improved Agile is needed, please read The Case for Agile 2.

If you want the full details, read the Values and Principles. The Values in Spanish here! In Turkish here!

Please join the LinkedIn group! And if you are interested in deep discussion about agility, unhindered by LinkedIn’s character lengths and algorithmic interference, check out the Constructive Agility community!

Posters

Some Agile 2 Talks

Boundaryless Conversations Podcast:
https://boundaryless.io/podcast/cliff-berg/

Comparative Agility podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brVBoUtuQQ4

Ipruver podcast:
https://impruver.com/creating-real-organizational-agility-with-cliff-berg/

rHatchery Live:
https://www.podpage.com/rhatcherylive/agile-cliff-berg-agile2academy/

BAC Madrid (in-person event):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yIQZK99AFk&t=154s

Enterprise Agility World Conference:
https://muse.ai/v/zBssXa3-Agile-2-a-Culture-Centric-Approach-Cliff-Berg

Enterprise Agility World Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7etNu2mux-8

No Nonsense Podcast: Raj Nagappan on Agile 2
https://nononsenseagile.podbean.com/e/041-raj-nagappan-agile-2/

ContinuousX podcast on Agile 2:
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJMpC7ZH23g
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP6msreNmS4
Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blkeo80FYaI
Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s2nXsWXGzY

Lisa Cooney: Agile 2 and DevOps – and Why We Need Both:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQxrgLK2oFQ

Unusually Well-Informed Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA6mdLx1Wc0

Lisa Cooney at DevOps Days DC 2021: Why DevOps Needs Agile 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBV6uQpY88

Murray Robinson at Scrum Masters of the Universe: What is Agile 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXp5u6Ii6c

Agile 2 and How Agile Has Changed, at Access Agile
https://vimeo.com/625542974

Interview by Javier Garzas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12f2pemjec0 (with Spanish text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1APFZvwVg)

Lisa at DevOps DC Meetup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEal6G1Kr_g (first few minutes were not recorded)

Lisa at Agile Xpertise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05D5BKtHv4

Murray’s talk for Agile Melbourne:
https://vimeo.com/621495742/bde49dee0a

Agile PATH event (Agile 2 talk begins at 1:35:00):
https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6834486151911354368/

Shane Hastie of InfoQ interviews Raj and Cliff about Agile 2:
https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/agile-next-iteration/

Lisa at AgileNOVA—Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile
https://vimeo.com/581813567

FutureCIO
https://futurecio.tech/podchats-for-futurecio-how-agile-2-re-aligns-agile-for-the-new-normal/

In CXOInsights
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1041739/8693176

Riphah International University Agile 2 symposium (2021-May-22):

• Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7O9oJ8Toy8
• Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG304piWslY

Lisa’s talk for Expert Agile Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIu9bqNJU64

UNCAGED With Lisa Cooney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSbcL_gKgE

ICAgile Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSgXYPMpsA

Lisa’s talk for Enterprise Agile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJ4Lf-EDPs

Talk at Agile Xpertise meetup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40KCCvnmbEo

Salah Elleithy’s Coaching Conversation:
https://soundcloud.com/sparkagility/the-coaching-conversation-with-cliff-berg

Lisa’s talk at Agile20Reflect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9ywVo8iYA

Cliff’s Future talk at Agile20Reflect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRl1QBE37o

Some Agile 2 Articles

Gov DevSecOps Hub: “Agile 2: A New Hope”
https://govdevsecopshub.com/2022/03/25/agile-2-a-new-hope

DZone:
https://dzone.com/articles/old-versus-new-agile

Startup Valley:
https://www.startupvalley.news/uk/agile-2-academy-leadership/

UK Tech News:
https://uktechnews.co.uk/2021/03/14/keeping-it-agile-new-book-aimed-at-modernising-old-software-processes-launches/

CIO Association of Canada:
https://www.ciocan.ca/press-release-keeping-it-agile-new-book-aimed-at-modernising-old-software-processes-launches/

PM Today:
https://www.pmtoday.co.uk/why-data-is-essential-for-agile-today/

Raj’s article “The Missing Interface Between Agile and Leadership”:
https://medium.com/swlh/the-missing-interface-between-agile-and-leadership-3ac73050b783

Philippa’s article:
https://www.ccpace.com/agile-2-heads-and-tails/

DZone:
https://dzone.com/articles/why-agile-2-is-not-a-manifesto

BetaNews:
https://betanews.com/2021/02/03/enterprises-need-agile-approach-qa/

Dataversity:
https://www.dataversity.net/remote-it-work-encourages-new-agile-approach/

NewsBreak, TechInvestorNews:
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2157043653537/why-financial-enterprises-need-to-take-a-more-agile-approach-qa

Authority Magazine:
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/author-cliff-berg-how-businesses-pivot-and-stay-relevant-in-the-face-of-disruptive-technologies-5c06eab7f737

In Dataconomy:
https://dataconomy.com/2020/12/agile-2-a-new-hope/

In TechTarget:
https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com/news/252492739/New-Agile-2-development-aims-to-plug-gaps-complement-DevOps

In Hackernoon:
https://hackernoon.com/how-modern-technology-has-changed-agile-methodology-iz22342c

In Project Management Today:
https://www.pmtoday.co.uk/agile-2-a-new-model-for-embracing-asynchronous-communication-and-remote-work/

TechRadar:
https://www.techradar.com/news/agile-vs-agile-2-whats-the-difference