Have you ever heard of an Agile Onion? If not, then stay tuned, we will introduce this smart agile ingredient in the remaining article.
As facilitators, If you come across teams where they only believe in responding to a change is true essence of agile instead of following a plan you need to stop them right there. Statements like “we don’t plan because we are agile” are totally wrong.
As a coach we need to make the team understand the core agile Values. When we say “Responding to a change, over following a plan” the precedence remains around acknowledging the change however we should value the items on right too.
In this VUCA world, where nothing is certain we need to continuously evolve to sustain and get ahead of our competitors.
To achieve this –
- Remediate volatility with vision
- Meet uncertainty with understanding
- Counter to complexity with clarity
- Fight ambiguity with agility
To cut through the noise and thrive the organization towards a bright future Agile coaches need to help the business to come up with best of the plans and these are not limited at team level but required across organization. To inculcate the culture of upfront planning many coaches are using the concept of agile onion along with Vision Workshops.
These are often considered as game changers in product management and defining the vision. With help of agile onion plans are crafted at different levels with detail depending on the timeframe for which we create these plans.
This approach helps team to figure out their responsibilities in the short-term and help them understand how these responsibilities contribute to long-term objectives.
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