CMSWire: Failing at Agile? You're Doing It Wrong

Agile not for you?

This is a recent article Greg Kihlström wrote for CMSWire. You can read the original article here.

Here are things to consider if adopting agile approaches isn’t working as well as it could.

This is a recent article Greg Kihlström wrote for CMSWire. You can read the original article here.

Agile not for you? Here are things to consider if adopting agile approaches isn’t working as well as it could.

I wasn’t always so strong in my beliefs that agile methods provide the blueprint for successful initiatives, but time and time again, I’ve seen how its adoption can make positive impacts on teams and their results.

In my previous article, I stated that agility is no longer optional in business. Now I’m going to take things a step further and say that a past negative experience or lack of understanding of agile is no longer an excuse to delay getting started.

If you or someone you know has said something like “we tried agile and it didn’t work,” I have a simple response. If it didn’t work, you weren’t doing it right, or you weren’t using it for the right projects or to solve the right problem.

In this article, I’m going to discuss some of the things to consider if adopting agile approaches for your marketing, engineering, customer experience, IT, or other team isn’t working as well as it could. If you are already skeptical that anything can help, I’m sorry to say, it’s not agile, it’s you. Let’s see why.

You can read the rest on CMSWire.

This is a recent article Greg Kihlström wrote for CMSWire. You can read the original article here.