| At the moment, this session is just a thought, but I feel it might grow with some input from the community. I hereby sincerely request you share your views, here on this page, by clicking the "Edit This Page" like at the bottom, and adding or changing a few words.
Session Data
- Duration: Unknown - See pattern
- Type: Experimental Workshop
- Area: Root Agile Identity
- Intended audience: Philosophizing identity and definition, seekers and carriers of knowledge and experience
- Maximum number of participants: 8-12 ?
- Facilitators: Agile teams are self organising so put [Your name here]
- Interrested: [Your name here]
Introduction
a·gil·i·ty
n.
The state or quality of being agile; nimbleness.
ag·ile
adj.
- Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble. moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast";
- Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.
[French, from Latin agilis, from agere, to drive, do.]
How do we define Agility or being Agile? Is there a meta-process to be found? What leads to greater Agility? What stops it cold, slamming doors like a hurricane?
At least there can now be a more accurate description of Agile;
- Able to adapt and therefore thrive in rapidly changing environments and situations.
- What if a perfectly agile person or business is a hunter on his or her highest alert, fully prepared, moving deliberately with intention held firmly in place in the forefront of her or his mind? He or she is ready for anything, being emotionally centered, yet feeling the excitement of the hunt and the anticipation of the successful outcome. No one can sneak up on this excellent hunter. It is the agile hunter who is doing the stalking, knowing his or her skills, having practiced a long time, and knowing where to look for the game he or she needs.
[You might want to add your own.]
Actually there could be an Agile pattern waiting to be discovered. It may be quite simple. It may be hard to find.
Session Contents
We could identify:
- Which environments or situations require Agility?
- Rapidly changing ones
- Ones with multiple possible outcomes
- Ones with high uncertainty factors
- [Add more if you wish]
- What are key aspects, qualities if you will, of entities (people, teams, companies, institutions, animals) that are know to act in an Agile way?
- Adaptivity
- Openmindedness
- Communicative
- Self Sacrifice
- Relativity
- Persistance
- Enterprising
- [Add more if you wish]
- What are key steps for a succesful Agile approach?
- Identify relative whereabouts
- Establish (temporary) value system and measurements
- Plan high value activity
- Short period of activity
- Evaluate results
- Recalibrate value system
- Repeat untill added value is lower than costs or environment or situation is stabilized
- [Add more if you wish]
- What are key Agile tools in these steps?
- Retrospectives and evaluations
- Planning
- [Add more if you wish]
- [Add more if you wish]
Of each of the Agile aspects, steps and tools we find we might answer these questions?
- How can this be aquired?
- How can this, once aquired, be secured and embedded?
- How can this be cultivated, stimulated, improved and grown?
- How can this best be shared?
- [Add more if you wish]
This session would be diverging first and converging in a latter stadium. It could do that multiple times. Remember, an Agile definition should preferably be simple and adaptive. This session is not looking for an Agile Handbook.
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