Intro to Agile mindset

Agile methodologies are known fortheir remarkable success rates. At least 70% of U.S. companies are nowusing Agile. Studies show that Agile projects are nearly 1.5 times moresuccessful than those managed with traditional Waterfall methodologies. Andcompanies that have adopt Agile experience 60% growth in revenue and profit.Of course, all Agile teams also benefit from organized teamwork and improved productquality.

Shu Ha Ri. Shu Ha Ri is a concept from Japanese martial arts that describes the stages of mastery. It can be broken down intothree steps:

1.   Shu (守) represents the phase where learners focus on understanding the fundamentals.
2.   At Ha (破) stage, learners start to break away from tradition. They begin to explore exceptions1.
3.   And Ri (離) represents the phase of transcendence. At this point, learners are not bound by specific techniques and like Bruce Lee can create their own style of martial arts if they want to. They understand how it works.

Those frameworks like Scrum andKanban are part of Agile. It’s how we do Agile. While Agile mindset is how webecome Agile – the fundamental principles everything is based on. And if youwill you the frameworks without first understanding these principles and thenmindset… you will do Agile, but you will never become Agile.

So we'll start with understandingwhat is Agile mindset, how it’s different from anything else you have used inyour projects or daily work and what’s the difference between Agile mindset andusing Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.