Managing Agile Projects

Double-Loop Learning

From an organic complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective, learning and adaptation involves continually making slight adjustments to discover the best fit to the environment. Learning is enabled by continuous feedback from the environment, and it is accomplished through adaptation of strategies and rules. An agile team needs continuous feedback from its project environment to enable learning, just as the feedback that the driver of a vehicle gets (the feel of the steering wheel, the road conditions, other traffic, etc.) enables the micro-adjustments that she makes to steer it. The APM practices provide many feedback mechanisms that enable the team to track and monitor the project environment. How do these mechanisms enable ...