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The Art of Agile Development, 2nd Edition
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The Art of Agile Development, 2nd Edition

by James Shore, Shane Warden
October 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
537 pages
17h 47m
English
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CHAPTER THREE

Choose Your Agility

There’s no point in Agile for the sake of Agile. Instead, ask yourself two questions:

  1. Will Agile help us be more successful?

  2. What will it take to achieve that success?

When you can answer these questions, you’ll know whether Agile is right for you.

The Agile Fluency Model

In 2014, I partnered with Diana Larsen to analyze why companies see such different results from their Agile teams. We had both worked with Agile teams from the beginning. Over the years, we noticed that they tended to see dramatically different types of results, and those results tended to cluster in different “zones.” We captured these observations in the Agile Fluency Model. A simplified view is shown in Figure 3-1. [Shore2018b]

A picture of the Agile Fluency Model. It shows a path from “Pre-Agile” through a shift in team culture to “Focusing,” followed by a shift in team skills to “Delivering,” then a shift in organizational structure to “Optimizing,” and finally a shift in organizational culture to “Strengthening.” The path continues and fades away, as if there are additional zones yet to be discovered.
Figure 3-1. A simplified view of the Agile ...
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