4 world developments from Agile 2019

A couple of weeks in the past I had a pleasure of returning to Washington DC to attend the 2019 Agile Alliance convention. The final time I attended the convention was in 2015 when there was a excessive concentrate on scaled approaches as the brand new child on the block. This time, I discovered quite a bit was the identical but additionally some new ideas so let’s check out the important thing developments.

1. A really robust shift away from course of and strategies in the direction of values, prinicples and mindset.
   It appears the day of over-indexing on course of and instruments over people and interactions has lastly ended. There have been actually far more talks on the softer aspect of agile than there was in course of, practices and strategies.
2. The introduction of a ‘self care’ observe.
   Somewhat aligned with shift in the direction of the softer aspect of Agile, this new observe is lastly recognising the problem that many Agile Coaches face in maintaining their private momentum and well being when probably having little help mechanisms within an organisation that they’re serving to to alter.
3. A powerful concentrate on teaching expertise and capabilities
   Not completely surprising or new, however it was nice to see conferences shifting away from fundamental or ‘introductory’ content material to help the continued progress of those that have been doing agile for a number of years. This is an indication that Agile is constant its momentum by not simply focussing on Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
4. Clean language and NLP. According to some different coaches this isn’t new and has been round for the previous few years however I appeared to have missed the messaging on this. The intent behind this isn’t too dissimilar to Non-Violent Communication, in that it’s a manner of intentionally utilizing/selecting language to restrict interpretation or suggestive reframing.

In addition to those new developments what stayed the identical included:

1. A continued concentrate on technical practices, particularly related to automated testing and DevOps
2. A continued progress of concentrate on Business Agility, however nonetheless not a whole lot of tales of individuals doing this and nonetheless fairly a little bit of confusion on easy methods to apply Integral on this area.
3. Great hall conversations! Stay tuned to some of those turning up on the Agile Revolution Podcast.