# Is Agile Over?  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jeff Gothelf]] - Full Title: Is Agile Over? - Category: #articles - Summary: Agile has been popular for over 20 years, but its effectiveness is now being questioned as many organizations struggle with poor implementations. Instead of rigidly following Agile frameworks, companies should focus on achieving desired outcomes and adapting to change. Agile isn't over; it's evolving into a more flexible approach that emphasizes agility over strict rules. - URL: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agile-over-jeff-gothelf-nfyte ## Highlights - Over the past 20+ years Agile rose to prominence as the way to run, at first, your software development teams and then your entire organization. Books, courses, training companies, certifications, frameworks and endless diagrams flooded the market. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxcaesyp53tkck7ew0pgjq)) - Saturation does not equal maturation Just because a high percentage of a population has been exposed to an idea doesn’t mean that idea has been internalized and ultimately put to good use. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxddz8y0yfmeb5pghee6t2)) - Agile is being used in these companies but very few of them are seeing any real benefits. Why is that? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxe299ph52txbfmtbvqjh1)) - there has been a lot of resistance from leaders to change how they work to accommodate greater agility in their teams. They may not come right out and tell you that, but ask a few pointed questions and you’ll see the patterns emerge. “We’ve implemented SAFe so we can predictably deploy features every 6 weeks no matter what.” “We, on the business side of things, define the product for the development teams so they can just carve it up into stories and keep shipping velocity high.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxgnbybsbdnj3ng8je4x6q)) - Forcing a framework on an organization and then policing it to a point where it becomes just as rigid as the framework it’s replacing is going to continue to fail. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxjays39k99rpgdcvy3b1t)) - Rather than enforcing an idea like “2 week sprints” let’s ask our teams to be able to “react to any new data point or insight from the market in 2 weeks or less.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxkbnk0yz9gdzdqsp8wdte)) - Instead of saying, “you must complete your user stories in a specific format and enter them into this tool” let’s ask the teams to “reduce the number of handoffs between disciplines by half.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3qxkry3cdtn0ye7px0f1y5d))