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Lately there have been a number of postings on LinkedIn claiming that Agile is dead. What nonsense! If you understand what Agile is, you would know that this statement is similar to claiming that evolution has ended. It hasn’t! Most likely the claimers are pursuing their own agendas of promoting \u201ctheir thing\u201d of what organisations should do next – their silver bullet to organisational resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, there is still a grain of truth in the statement as \u201cAgile” has become one of the most misused terms in the past many years. As an example, four years ago many of us got a good laugh by reading a job posting from Landbrugsstyrelsen<\/a> (the Danish governmental agency for agriculture) where the word \u201cAgile” was repeated 25 times in the relatively short text. Where it is easy to point fingers at the author of this text, it is merely a symptom of what has been going on – and still is going on: the commoditisation of Agile, and the thinking that some approach will become Agile by calling it Agile enough times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many mishaps have been made as a result of this commoditisation. Not only by newcomers entering the market for a quick gain, but also by thought leaders, pioneers and practitioners. In this series of blog posts, I will address some of these mishaps and discuss the cause and consequences of each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though I might call for a rebranding of Agile, I am not into promoting \u201cmy thing\u201d as better (actually, \u201cmy thing\u201d does not exist). My agenda is to hold up a mirror and ask thought leaders, pioneers, practitioners, consultants, trainers and coaches to look at themselves and ask: \u201cWhat the heck are we doing?\u201d I wish for lowering the amount of bullshit, snake oil, silver bullets and religion in the Agile market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what, there seems to be disillusionment in the market which relates to unkept promises about what Agile would do for the ones applying it. In the remainder of this blog post I will be addressing this as well as the origin of Agile. If this is less interesting for you then move on to the next blog post addressing Agile Mishap #1: Do it by the book!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promises – kept or broken?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The past few years I have facilitated leadership cohorts for clients as well as publicly. In the initial meeting of these half-year programs my co-facilitators and I always start by asking the participants about their experiences applying Agile. Which of the promises of Agil was kept and which were broken? In general we have heard some of the following: Kept (meaning we generally got):<\/p>\n\n\n\n