Becoming Agile: Get back to first principles first
Channel: OGuild
Date: 2015-07-04

Rishi Srivastav, Vice President with Emergn.  In his first decade of his work life with system integrators and captives, developing and architecting software solutions to challenging business problems. 
As he completes his second decade, he has led transformation programs, helping teams harness rapidly changing technologies and Agile-Lean delivery methods to deliver business value to their end customers with short concept to cash lead-time. 

In this video, Rishi talks about “Becoming Agile: Get back to first principles first” - partial successes with Agile implementations. We have become iterative for sure and there is a definite sense of cadence. But concept to cash lead times are still quite high. A sense of dogma has crept in the rituals, they happen, but there is little soul. Team members are still quite stressed out; we have avoided the famous waterfall death march for sure but it is still a very tiring and painful long march.  Organizations don’t feel that they have reaped all the benefits which were promised. There are just a handful of companies who seem to be living the values and are really nimble in the market place. What went wrong?
Our focus on people, value, flow and quality instead of process, tools, cost, schedule and scope, got the attention but did not get internalised by all. So while we are adopting “Agile” methods we have not become “agile” yet.