What is Agile? - An Overview

What is Agile? Why is it still relevant today? In this video, Product Designer and Workshop Facilitator Spencer Ayres shares the definition of Agile, an overview of its related methodologies (Scrum, Kanban and XP), and how big companies use Agile to innovate and develop products and software. He also explains how Agile and Facilitation are related.

🤔 Do you use any of the Agile methodologies and principles to develop products or other innovative practices? Do you think Agile is still relevant today? Please share your thoughts in the comments section👇


⏰ Video timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:14 What is agile?
1:54 The origins of Agile - The Agile Manifesto
2:33 The most popular Agile methodologies
2:55 What is Scrum?
3:29 What is Kanban?
4:08 What is Extreme Programming (XP)
5:10 How do big companies use Agile to innovate?
5:26 IBM and Agile
5:50 Spotify and Agile
6:16 Google and Agile
7:14 How does Agile relate to Facilitation

Thanks for watching!

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What is Agile? - An Overview

[AJSmart]

🤔 Do you use any of the Agile methodologies and principles for project management or software development? Do you think Agile is still relevant today? Please share your thoughts in the comments section👇

[kylenicholas]

Great explanation. You're right, there are a lot of misconceptions about what Agile is. It's not a methodology, it's a mindset. It's not about working faster, it's about being more nimble and adaptable so teams don't go too far in the wrong direction - maximizing the work not done. When you work in a iterative manner, you set yourself up for feedback loops that allow yourself to pivot, learn, and improve.

My personal favorite way of working is to use Kanban method in Scrum. Scrum is a great framework for newer teams trying to become more Agile as it gives teams a certain structure while still keeping in mind the agile values and principles (if done right), and Kanban is amazing in terms of increasing the flow of work when you start measuring item aging, throughput, cycle time, etc.

[cillboon]

Nice summary. Agile is probably more relevant today than ever. People and conversations. Customer first. Collaboration. Focus on outcome. No company would survive today without any of that. I'm not sure where you're going with these videos. It would be nice to build on the connection with facilitation more.

[jonathancourtney]

Great to see you on our channel dude! Glad we managed to make it happen so fast!

[johanholst]

Very concisely and clearly presented Spencer!

[MohamedHassan-qxcg]

Directly to the point thank you for your simple explanation

[roddunne]

Wow... ton of info crammed in 9-ish minutes. Would veer to IBMs approach over Spotify.

[jaspermeehancoach]

Really helpful, clear and to the point, thanks.

[The.abiola]

Great video! Thanks for simplifying these concepts 👏👏👏

[ForeverLiveArt]

All this Agile videos are smells bad and this methodology is REALLY TOXIC

[noeticjustice]

This is not quite right in many ways, and some parts are completely out of date or were never correct. See Google and Spotify for perfect examples of this (the 'Spotify model' was never actually implemented--it was an internal "what if we.." document that somehow got presented to the rest of the world as "how we work" by someone related to Spotify, and the rest is history). The presenter has clearly read all of the same articles that mislead everyone who thinks they know what they are talking about, but are clear signs that he's done nothing but read those incorrect articles.

[yasheng]

Why do you need “seconds” on your development process? XP looks evil.

[MariuszMackowiak]

I believe that if you have an Agile Certified you would know that Agile is not metodology it is a Framework. You would not pass Scrum. Organizacja testy;)