Is Agile dead? – question which is going around last couple months (and more). But how can something be dead when we have increasing trend of job postings for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches? Is that just a last deep breath before it will die?
The problem I see is that increasing number of Agile coaches decrease overall quality in Agile worldwide. On the other side good coaches number increase as well so quality of materials, experience sharing, and practical examples are increasing. Big challenge for companies is to recognize and attract good coaches (of course good coach is a minimum – great coach is even better). If companies find a way to solve this issue, value of Agile worldwide will again strive to excellence.
Nevertheless, this is the two way street so Agile communities and coaches needs to contribute as well by being more transparent and by establishing some standards for becoming a coach (certificate without some years of practice in relative area definitely is not enough).
PS: Comic shows only one example why people have different theories about Agile future – and there are thousands of different antipatterns over there (Dilbert comics are precious here), which doesn’t mean that Agile is bad or dead, but I agree that bad-Agile is (or at least should be) dead.
Stefan Stojković is an experienced Project Manager and Agilist with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry, kids IT Education, Software development, and Agile transformations in non-IT industries. Skilled in management, negotiations, manufacturing, development, and knowledge transfer.
