“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!
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Some Agile 2 Talks
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
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