Well hello, and thank you for checking out the Agile Labs blog! We hope you enjoy reading our articles, and that they can help you in some way. Please share your thoughts and feedback, we’d love to hear from you!
At Agile Labs our mission is to help teams to build products in an effective and sustainable way, driven by principles seen in the original Agile Manifesto, newer versions, and ideas from the Agile community as we see them emerging. We have worked with many teams who are making a switch in their ways of working towards “Agile”, and seen and helped to solve first-hand some of the challenges in making these changes. Our goal with Agile Labs is to provide guidance away from some of the things that can be problematic, and nudge towards things that can give better results.
We know there is no “one true way”, but there are undoubtedly emerging patterns as to what tends to work well, and what tends to cause problems. Underpinning a lot of this is the changes in thinking that can be subtle – and the assumptions that we don’t even realize are there. Many of the tools that are out there to help teams build products have evolved from other roots – perhaps they started out as more traditional “waterfall” tools, or as task management tools – and there are assumptions in these that can combine with people’s existing habits in a way that can stifle the best bits of working in a more agile way. We are building a product around the agile principles from the ground up, trying very consciously to steer the ways of working away from these assumptions.
We will share some of our thoughts and experiences as we go – about Agile Labs as we build it, about some of the things we’ve seen on other products, and about software delivery in general. We hope this can be interesting, thought-provoking, and above all valuable!