On the Agile Mindset Umbrella Protecting us from the Waterfall Rain

Kit Friend is an Agile Coach, proud geek, and Atlassian Partnership lead for EMEA at Accenture (despite his enthusiasm, these views are currently officially only his own). In this special episode of the Voices of OKRs series, we discuss where it might make sense to apply the Waterfall model (and yes, in some cases this would be a reasonable approach), the many ways to be agile — from the “Seen more rarely currently approaches” like Lean to those we should “Approach with caution” like the “Spotify model,” and how organizations should be thinking about mapping work to value, data to strategy.

What you will learn in this episode

• (0:00) Intro
• (2:10) Who is Kit?
• (9:23) Waterfall model
• (17:04) Lean model
• (21:51) Single-team agile frameworks
• (23:14) Kanban vs Scrum
• (32:02) Starting agile with a recipe, not just ingredients
• (34:28) Spotify model
• (41:20) 5 Critical Skills
• (47:46) Ask an expert and measure progress
• (53:33) Rapid-fire questions
• (56:15) Outro

Relevant links

• Scrum and XP from the Trenches
• The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste

People referenced

• Matt Meckes
• Greg Detre
• Laz Allen

Agile mindset umbrella