Coach Dan's Blog

I received the best email from an agile marketer yesterday (if you want to see it, look to your right...)  It came at the perfect time and made me feel proud to be working with these marketing teams. Now I always knew that our Marketers are among the very best and most creative in the world, but I am really impressed that Nick Vaglio took it upon himself to reflect on his year-long agile journey and come up with his own personal definition.  Talk about an agile mindset! Of course we all know that the definition of an agile mindset can be found in our Agile Values and Principles!  But Nick's email got me to thinking about what my personal definition of agile is. Coach Dan's Personal Definition Of AGILE (for today) Well I'm going to start off with the word Aligned.  Agile teams and agile individual are absolutely aligned to a common goal - to provide the most valuable things to our customer, as quickly as possible.  That's an easy one - now on to G... Merriam-Webs...

Every single one of you reading this post is at a different stage in your agile journey.  Some of you have been on agile teams for a year or more.  Some of you are about to start with a new team.  Some of you bring learnings from other places.  Some of you are just taking your first steps toward embracing and living the agile values and principles.  I think the fact that we're all in a different place, and looking at things with different lenses is  AWESOME ! With all of this perspective - we truly have the opportunity to work together to help our company become a more agile place.  If you've got a  few years of learning  under your belt - how can you incorporate YOUR learning into our agile teams, and to support our agile managers? If you've been into this journey for  about a year  - what can you share with your agile manager and your peers about what you've learned? If you are  new(er) to all of this  - ...