Amazing video, I like the way you explain how agile doesn't tell teams and organisation what to do but gives them a set of values and principles that will help them decide what to do.
Was asked by the workplace to start looking into AGILE methodology. Your video feels that it has enough solid knowledge to work with and around. Not to mention the great visuals. Subscribed and look forward to going through your channel.
Thank you for sharing a clear explanation of agile. Too many videos are confusing. Hope this video moves up in views to help others with this confusion.
HI Mark, I just saw your video. Before this I always used to think if we are following a proper framework and methods then how are we agile. This video cleared all my doubts. You are doing a great work and after watching so many videos on agile, looks like you actually have a knowledge about it unlike others.
Hi i'm a collage student from Indonesia, this video is really helpful for me to understand what is agile literally and help me for do my homework, thank you Sir
This video confirms my understanding of agile. I recently had the opportunity to work with a software development team, and it was a headache for me because everyone was comparing different things and redoing the same thing repeatedly merely to satisfy customer requirements.Additionally, it was a completely different setting for me as a web developer because typically we use the waterfall methodology and establish a project charter at the beginning of the project.However, they use android studio as a benchmark (the software used to develop android apps). Because of the stages and other factors, the majority of my colleagues thought it was a waterfall. Although it wasn't a waterfall method, it was heavily based on the agile approach. However, many continue to attempt to contrast that paradigm with agile. thanks for providing us clear and simple information regarding this topic..
Hi Mark - This is very good video and you are truly reflecting what is agile. I am PM with vast experience on traditional water fall model and new to Agile. Your video provide right perspective to go ahead to move our teams to Agile. Your reflection's on Agile is quite different from other's interpretation (listened other Agile videos), I strongly believe what you are saying true. Thanks lot for providing right knowledge on Agile.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. As with most things, your view depends on your background. As a developer who also happens to do coaching, I like to think that I take a very pragmatic view of Agile. This doesn't mean that other views are necessarily wrong--they just sometimes are focused on different aspects based on their background. In the past I've had some conversations with Agile Coaches that didn't know how to code where we were taking very different positions. After some reflection, I realized that they were approaching development as a black box. If they wanted to get different results from their developers, they needed to change things outside the development process. From their standpoint, this made perfect sense. However, for someone who wants to dig in and actually write code, development isn't a black box. There are all kinds of parts inside of it and if you don't like the results you can just change the way the development is being done. Maybe you *do* need to change the environment outside of development, but you have a lot more options available to you within the development process. All that to say that many of the different views have value when you understand the background of the person behind that view.
In theory, you don't have to abandon the waterfall model, being that the waterfall method is methodology, and agile, by definition is not... therefore they can go exist, as long as the principals and values that you apply to the waterfall method align with the agile values and principals.
Great presentation to explain the very fine line between AGILE being a way of work to deliver values and principles and the Methodologies that follow AGILE like SCRUM.
This is a great way to explain Agile. When interviewing I am asked about the Agile Methodology and I remind them that it is not a methodology. I think I lose there interest at this point.
Thanks for this awesome vidéo. You surely help to have more agile practitioner on the market. You better include your book in the vidéo. after all this is business, you give and i give too. that's the way to do real things that works.
Mark - awesome videos - it's a shame that sometimes we spend a lot of money and couple of days to understand something which you're able to explain within 5-10 minutes videos. Keep going! By the way - just curious - how much time you usually spend for one video?
Hi Mark, Fanastic video, - i'd like to know what software you used to make these cartoons, im very interested to make educational videos inspired from yourself. Is there a specific tutorial on how you made these cartoons? Thanks
This video corrobarates what I had understood of Agile. At the moment I am working in a team inside my company which was designated to develop a formal framework for our development process, and it is giving me a headache because people keep comparing diferent things. We implement Oracle software, so we have the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) as a guideline. But since most people haven't read the damn thing, they just assumed that it is a waterfall method because of the phases and all. However, it is strongly based on the Unified Process, which is not waterfall! Still, people keep trying to compare OUM with Agile, based on the misconception that Agile is a methodology...
Thank you so much for the comment. I'm glad you liked it. Be sure to check out some of my other Agile videos if you haven't seen them. I'd love to get your opinion and suggests on them too.
@@MarkShead Yes I have been watching for awhile. I will think about if there are any improvements, but nothing comes to mind right now. Have an amazing day!
This playlist starts with a video about the principles. ruclips.net/video/Z9QbYZh1YXY/видео.html Also if you sign up for my book and mailing list at the link below, you'll get notified if I do a lunch and learn webinar or something in the future: book.markshead.com/
We are trying to strike a good balance between being interesting visually and focusing on what is being said. We don't always get the right balance so thanks for your feedback.
that s because voice over is so slow and quality is bad (eco etc) and it s need background music for cathing to the tempo of visual that's why its fade-out for audience :(
@@bkegksl So did this video seem too slow? I had picked up the pace but my more recent ones are much faster. I'm trying to find the right speed to talk.
Thanks for your videos. Agile is not a methodology. This quite different from all the video and articles i have seen and read on the Internet where they always refer to it as a methodology. I have always said it is a methodology in interviews but i hope with this your video, i will be able to explain why it is principles and values rather than methodology
Just point people back to the Agile Manifesto and ask what part of it sounds like a methodology. Now there are lots of methodologies people use to try to follow Agile. Scrum is one. Its creators refer to it as a "framework" but most of the ways it gets implemented is as a methodology.
I like the definition, noting that Agile is not, in and of itself, a methodology. That said, trying to explain that to anyone in the corporate world is like explaining the difference between Saint Nicholas and Santa Clause. They just zone out.
Hi Shead, thanks for the playlist I found very educative and also very helpful in my understanding agile, I will, however, love to get the digital copy of the book you talked kindly help with one.
Glad you liked the video. This link will let you sign up for the keycode to get the book for free. Hope you like it. mailchi.mp/326ba47ba2e8/agile-list
Mark - You make great stuff. I'm working towards moving our team to a Scrum methodology, what are some of the best online training sources for it? I want to make sure we have a common understanding and common terminology.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it! There are quite a few videos about SCRUM on RUclips. I don't know of one in particular I'd recommend. It might be useful to watch them together in person so you can talk through what things mean to make sure everyone is on the same page. Also I'd highly recommend really focusing on an understanding of Agile. Often times people get way to focused on doing SCRUM and forget why they are doing it. For that I'd recommend my playlist below. You've probably seen some of them, but it is an easy way to pass them all on to someone else in the correct order: ruclips.net/video/Z9QbYZh1YXY/видео.html
It's a way of working that takes large complex things and breaks them down into smaller things, and it looks differently for every company, but one thing remains the same. Everything agile practitioners do is because we align to the Values and Principles of the Agile Manifesto.
Concept confuses me. A method is a set of guidelines instructing how to proceed. If Agile is a set of guidelines allowing you to choose a method to increase agility, then it is a method of choosing methods. ??
I was trying to make the note about whether if not SCRUM was a methodology a bit parenthetical so I went through that part pretty fast. Was it too distracting? I can't change this one but I appreciate any feedback I can use to improve future videos.
Thank you so much for the honest feedback. It will help me make future videos better. Do you think it would have worked out better just to put the comment about whether or not SCRUM is a methodology in the description and simply left it out of the video?
Mark Shead I think while your are talking (reading the definition) it might help if you kept writing the text so that people can press pause and read it (in case they can't follow)
Good suggestion. Did you run it with closed caption turned on? I tried to make sure I've got the text showing up there for anyone who wants to be able to read it as well.
In some ways yes. Getting the software team to think in terms of how to use what they can do in code to provide a competitive advantage is a very good way to make more money.
I feel that the whole idea with the agile concept is so loose. You can take anything that turns out to be successful and label it as "agile". And anything that didn't work out can simply be called "Not agile enough".
I can see your point. One of the key parts of Agile is to make sure you are measuring progress and code that does actual work, delivered all the way to where it is useful to users on a regular cycle that is measured in weeks not months. This means Agile is pushing us toward proving that we can be successful on a regular basis over and over again in a short timeframe. When a project fails, it is usually because they didn't figure out how to do that. The rest of the Agile principles help make sure you have a good foundation for delivering like that, but if you find a better way to get sustainable small regularly repeated success demonstrated by delivering code all the way to prod with pixie dust and fairy glitter, you should definitely use that instead of the Agile principles. :)
I'm actually trying to address a specific problem I see in the industry where Agile gets sold to teams as a methodology and this approach makes it lose much of what makes it valuable.
Mark Shead - Understood; however, this is a problem for you and is a matter of linguistical preference. A methodology can be the review and analysis of one or more methods or systems. It is not singular all the time. Therefore, whether you call it a methodology or a concept (or whatever word you use), the important thing is that you are doing great work to describe its benefits and application. Obviously, calling it a methodology irks you enough to attempt to get people to change how Agile is described. My point is, your insistence on defining what it ISN’T is taking the viewer away from appreciating what it IS.
I believe I'm using the generally agreed upon definition of methodology: "a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity" When I read the Agile Manifesto, I do not feel it meets that definition. In fact, it appears to go out of its way to be methodology agnostic. This differentiation is important because it is the core strength of Agile. Agile doesn't prescribe methods, it just tells you what to value. My experience working with teams is that approaching Agile as a methodology means that they are including some methodology and saying "this is Agile." They may pick a great methodology, but an inability to differentiate between the methodologies they are following (Scrum, Kanban, XP, something you came up with yourself) and the values that would be used to judge whether or not the methodology is working well for them. Now for some teams maybe that doesn't matter, but on teams that are being called on to adapt to significant change, it does matter. Since adapting to change is the definition of agility, it becomes important because the differentiation determines whether or not a team is actual Agile or just doing well in their current state. That all said, I do see your point within the context of this video and I appreciate the feedback. Most of the people who watch my videos are watching multiple ones and my "What is Agile?" video is the longer one that describes Agile in more detail. Thank you for your feedback and I will keep it in mind on future videos.
Agile is very much a methodology, an adaptive set of METHODS called VALUES and PRINCIPLES...you follow "specific ways" of approaching work...not calling them methods or methodology is not helpful....especially as methods develop as a result of following the so-called principles.
>"adaptive set of METHODS called VALUES and PRINCIPLES" I would differentiate between a method (the way you do something) and a principle. For example, if I have a principle that says I need to exercise regularly, there could be many methods that let me do that and the methods may change dramatically with the seasons or as I age, but the principle remains the same. Agile has a principle that says the most efficient way to communicate is face-to-face. Having everyone work together in a team room would be one method. But during Covid that method was no longer an option. So another method would be to use video conferencing. Maybe someday Startrek style holodecks will be a method that could be used. The principle remains, but the method changes. What do you consider a methodology that is in the Agile Manifesto?
My Guy, trynna help here, try putting background music when you talk because it felt boring to watch without music and the pauses made it worse Otherwise, thank you for the information. :)
We are trying to keep things interesting visually without being distracting and it sounds like we missed the mark on this one. Thanks for the feedback! Do the other videos not seem to make sense or is it just this one?
Thanks for the feedback. I do have a blog post with the content, but many people seem to prefer the animation. Here is the link in case it is useful: blogs.harvard.edu/markshead/what-is-agile-methodology/
I'm sorry you didn't find it useful. We've tried a bunch of different things with the animation. Do our other videos seem like the animation is more relevant?
I don't have an idea of what the character is doing, but the description is so clear and simple that you can't help but mark it as a success
The description you're hearing comes from the character 🙂
Keep the viewer entertained.
i have a meeting after 10 minutes and I am spending time to show my appreciation of the simplicity of this video. Subscribed!
Amazing video, I like the way you explain how agile doesn't tell teams and organisation what to do but gives them a set of values and principles that will help them decide what to do.
Which is a great guiding factor because not all specific methods work. One from this will would work, one from that. It's a mesh
Was asked by the workplace to start looking into AGILE methodology. Your video feels that it has enough solid knowledge to work with and around. Not to mention the great visuals. Subscribed and look forward to going through your channel.
Thank you for sharing a clear explanation of agile. Too many videos are confusing. Hope this video moves up in views to help others with this confusion.
HI Mark,
I just saw your video. Before this I always used to think if we are following a proper framework and methods then how are we agile. This video cleared all my doubts. You are doing a great work and after watching so many videos on agile, looks like you actually have a knowledge about it unlike others.
Hi i'm a collage student from Indonesia, this video is really helpful for me to understand what is agile literally and help me for do my homework, thank you Sir
Thanks for taking the time to comment! Be sure to check out my other Agile videos. Maybe they will help you with other homework assignments! :)
This was impeccably delivered. So simple to grasp!
This video confirms my understanding of agile.
I recently had the opportunity to work with a software development team, and it was a headache for me because everyone was comparing different things and redoing the same thing repeatedly merely to satisfy customer requirements.Additionally, it was a completely different setting for me as a web developer because typically we use the waterfall methodology and establish a project charter at the beginning of the project.However, they use android studio as a benchmark (the software used to develop android apps). Because of the stages and other factors, the majority of my colleagues thought it was a waterfall. Although it wasn't a waterfall method, it was heavily based on the agile approach. However, many continue to attempt to contrast that paradigm with agile.
thanks for providing us clear and simple information regarding this topic..
This was a lot packed into a short amount of time! Thanks!
Hi Mark - This is very good video and you are truly reflecting what is agile. I am PM with vast experience on traditional water fall model and new to Agile. Your video provide right perspective to go ahead to move our teams to Agile. Your reflection's on Agile is quite different from other's interpretation (listened other Agile videos), I strongly believe what you are saying true.
Thanks lot for providing right knowledge on Agile.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. As with most things, your view depends on your background. As a developer who also happens to do coaching, I like to think that I take a very pragmatic view of Agile. This doesn't mean that other views are necessarily wrong--they just sometimes are focused on different aspects based on their background.
In the past I've had some conversations with Agile Coaches that didn't know how to code where we were taking very different positions. After some reflection, I realized that they were approaching development as a black box. If they wanted to get different results from their developers, they needed to change things outside the development process. From their standpoint, this made perfect sense. However, for someone who wants to dig in and actually write code, development isn't a black box. There are all kinds of parts inside of it and if you don't like the results you can just change the way the development is being done. Maybe you *do* need to change the environment outside of development, but you have a lot more options available to you within the development process.
All that to say that many of the different views have value when you understand the background of the person behind that view.
In theory, you don't have to abandon the waterfall model, being that the waterfall method is methodology, and agile, by definition is not... therefore they can go exist, as long as the principals and values that you apply to the waterfall method align with the agile values and principals.
Great presentation to explain the very fine line between AGILE being a way of work to deliver values and principles and the Methodologies that follow AGILE like SCRUM.
Glad it was helpful!
good description so continues
Super cool video to clarify the difference between Scrum and Agile
thank you that was useful infomation
This is a great way to explain Agile. When interviewing I am asked about the Agile Methodology and I remind them that it is not a methodology. I think I lose there interest at this point.
Well they may be talking specifically about something like Scrum that they are following in a methodical manner. :)
Thanks for this awesome vidéo. You surely help to have more agile practitioner on the market. You better include your book in the vidéo. after all this is business, you give and i give too. that's the way to do real things that works.
Mark, helpful content with great execution.
You are my hero. Your videos are helping me so much in my new role.
Congrats on the new role! May I ask what your position is. Looking into new roles currently. Much appreciated.
Mark - awesome videos - it's a shame that sometimes we spend a lot of money and couple of days to understand something which you're able to explain within 5-10 minutes videos. Keep going! By the way - just curious - how much time you usually spend for one video?
Thanks for the reply! We use Go Animate to make the videos. I'd estimate that each one takes 15 to 35 hours to produce.
Great video! Very clear the explanation is!! The video and its effects are awesome too!
Very clear and intelligent, Thanks!
Hi Mark, Fanastic video, - i'd like to know what software you used to make these cartoons, im very interested to make educational videos inspired from yourself. Is there a specific tutorial on how you made these cartoons? Thanks
The tool is called Vyond. Thanks for commenting!
Hey mark
Amazing Video
Which Software do you use for it and the voice over
Would be great help
This video corrobarates what I had understood of Agile. At the moment I am working in a team inside my company which was designated to develop a formal framework for our development process, and it is giving me a headache because people keep comparing diferent things. We implement Oracle software, so we have the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) as a guideline. But since most people haven't read the damn thing, they just assumed that it is a waterfall method because of the phases and all. However, it is strongly based on the Unified Process, which is not waterfall! Still, people keep trying to compare OUM with Agile, based on the misconception that Agile is a methodology...
This is fantastic, I will be using this the next time someone starts talking about Agile as a methodology!!!😊
Thank you so much for the comment. I'm glad you liked it. Be sure to check out some of my other Agile videos if you haven't seen them. I'd love to get your opinion and suggests on them too.
@@MarkShead Yes I have been watching for awhile. I will think about if there are any improvements, but nothing comes to mind right now.
Have an amazing day!
Great job! Any suggestions on where to learn about agile principles and values?
This playlist starts with a video about the principles.
ruclips.net/video/Z9QbYZh1YXY/видео.html
Also if you sign up for my book and mailing list at the link below, you'll get notified if I do a lunch and learn webinar or something in the future:
book.markshead.com/
Excellent video.. Been trying since long to find this exact content. Thank you!
- Well done, quick and informative.
Well done. Appreciate it.
Great video Mark! Finally someone that breaks with the stereotype of Agile being a methodology (and sometimes almost a religion XD)
this video confirms it is a cult.
Really good video. I've watch a few of them and they are all very good and provides very good information in a very simple manner.
Thank you! I really appreciate your kind words.
I love your side note that silences the haters before they can come to the comments lol.
Great video!
As my focus transferred to the visuals, so i need to watch the video again to listen to what he is saying :D
We are trying to strike a good balance between being interesting visually and focusing on what is being said. We don't always get the right balance so thanks for your feedback.
that s because voice over is so slow and quality is bad (eco etc) and it s need background music for cathing to the tempo of visual that's why its fade-out for audience :(
@@bkegksl So did this video seem too slow? I had picked up the pace but my more recent ones are much faster. I'm trying to find the right speed to talk.
@@MarkSheadI think you shouldn't worry about speed while you talking you should feel comfortable. It is the editor's job to take care of videos' tempo
@@MarkShead I prefer slowly, as it was in the beginning of the video.
Thanks for your videos. Agile is not a methodology. This quite different from all the video and articles i have seen and read on the Internet where they always refer to it as a methodology. I have always said it is a methodology in interviews but i hope with this your video, i will be able to explain why it is principles and values rather than methodology
Just point people back to the Agile Manifesto and ask what part of it sounds like a methodology. Now there are lots of methodologies people use to try to follow Agile. Scrum is one. Its creators refer to it as a "framework" but most of the ways it gets implemented is as a methodology.
That's because it IS a methodology. Period.
very helpful
Well done. Thanks a bunch! I was unable to see the free book link. Can you share it with us? Thank you!
If you sign up here, you'll get a link. (It might take a few minutes to send it to you.) book.markshead.com
I got a bit distracted from the narration when he was hanging by one arm off the cliff edge 😮.
I like the definition, noting that Agile is not, in and of itself, a methodology. That said, trying to explain that to anyone in the corporate world is like explaining the difference between Saint Nicholas and Santa Clause. They just zone out.
I have definitely experienced what you are talking about.
3:58 lmao where does he get that parachute from
Edit: and then a jetpack I love this video
I don't know where it came from, but I'm thankful that the cartoon version of me had it. :)
Well done! :)
Sweed lord, thank you, I can go to bed now
Hi Shead, thanks for the playlist I found very educative and also very helpful in my understanding agile, I will, however, love to get the digital copy of the book you talked kindly help with one.
Glad you liked the video. This link will let you sign up for the keycode to get the book for free. Hope you like it. mailchi.mp/326ba47ba2e8/agile-list
Hi Mark. Thank you for this great video. Just want to ask what tools you use to create these animations? I will be thankful if you can guide.
Thanks Jan. Glad you liked the video. We use Vyond to make these.
helpful enough..
Mark - You make great stuff. I'm working towards moving our team to a Scrum methodology, what are some of the best online training sources for it? I want to make sure we have a common understanding and common terminology.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
There are quite a few videos about SCRUM on RUclips. I don't know of one in particular I'd recommend. It might be useful to watch them together in person so you can talk through what things mean to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Also I'd highly recommend really focusing on an understanding of Agile. Often times people get way to focused on doing SCRUM and forget why they are doing it. For that I'd recommend my playlist below. You've probably seen some of them, but it is an easy way to pass them all on to someone else in the correct order:
ruclips.net/video/Z9QbYZh1YXY/видео.html
Just curious. Is scrum a methodolgy?
Thanks you so much
hi, how may i get your book online?
This link will let you download it:
www.xeric.net/#starting-agile
i still find it very hard to get what the hell it is lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a way of working that takes large complex things and breaks them down into smaller things, and it looks differently for every company, but one thing remains the same.
Everything agile practitioners do is because we align to the Values and Principles of the Agile Manifesto.
Hey Mark, I like your Agile vids. Do you have a similar one specifically for Scrum?
Not yet, but we should do one.
Thanks vey good
Thank you :)
You are so very welcome!
Hi, Your video demonstration is quite interesting. 😊 Thanks for the video.
xoxo
based on the weather in this video, the guy is from the UK
Great video, but you might want to take care of the echo in your sound. Try recording in a different space? ty
This video is faster than the previous videos that I have been seen before. I prefer slower.
Thanks for the feedback!
Did I miss to see, or he did not finally tell what is agile ?
Agile is just the way of making Software Development more "Agile" for this you can use a set of methods that includes SCRUM
It seems like you weren't paying attention to what he was saying in the video...
I am more confused about this Agile than I was before....
This seriously looks like a South Park "Hardly Boys" cartoon
Concept confuses me. A method is a set of guidelines instructing how to proceed. If Agile is a set of guidelines allowing you to choose a method to increase agility, then it is a method of choosing methods. ??
It is a set of values and principles that give you criteria by which you can make good decisions.
Wait a minute, "Face to Face contact" is a methodology. It is a method by which you communicate. Wasn't that an Agile "principle"?
Hi Mark, at Minute 2:30 you started to speak extremly fast, was that on purpose?
I was trying to make the note about whether if not SCRUM was a methodology a bit parenthetical so I went through that part pretty fast. Was it too distracting? I can't change this one but I appreciate any feedback I can use to improve future videos.
Mark Shead to be honest, yes it did.
Even I've got it, it was somehow hard to follow.
Still I really like your videos 👍
Thank you so much for the honest feedback. It will help me make future videos better. Do you think it would have worked out better just to put the comment about whether or not SCRUM is a methodology in the description and simply left it out of the video?
Mark Shead I think while your are talking (reading the definition) it might help if you kept writing the text so that people can press pause and read it (in case they can't follow)
Good suggestion. Did you run it with closed caption turned on? I tried to make sure I've got the text showing up there for anyone who wants to be able to read it as well.
Agile methodology means, follow whatever makes the most money
In some ways yes. Getting the software team to think in terms of how to use what they can do in code to provide a competitive advantage is a very good way to make more money.
GOOD
Good video!
Agile is the single worst thing to happen to corporate America.
03:05 why would you take BMX bike up a hill, get a mountain-bike
That's a 'fancy' way to hold your hand to your hip, lol.
Ha ha. :)
The hour you spend figuring out what it is, is an hour you could use to get work done.....
What hour long video did you watch? :)
I understand this now 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
I feel that the whole idea with the agile concept is so loose. You can take anything that turns out to be successful and label it as "agile". And anything that didn't work out can simply be called "Not agile enough".
I can see your point. One of the key parts of Agile is to make sure you are measuring progress and code that does actual work, delivered all the way to where it is useful to users on a regular cycle that is measured in weeks not months.
This means Agile is pushing us toward proving that we can be successful on a regular basis over and over again in a short timeframe. When a project fails, it is usually because they didn't figure out how to do that. The rest of the Agile principles help make sure you have a good foundation for delivering like that, but if you find a better way to get sustainable small regularly repeated success demonstrated by delivering code all the way to prod with pixie dust and fairy glitter, you should definitely use that instead of the Agile principles. :)
Yup, to be agile cant follow certain fixed methodology
You are getting too hung up on the terminology and how agile is not a methodology. Great message but it is lost in this rhetoric.
I'm actually trying to address a specific problem I see in the industry where Agile gets sold to teams as a methodology and this approach makes it lose much of what makes it valuable.
Mark Shead - Understood; however, this is a problem for you and is a matter of linguistical preference. A methodology can be the review and analysis of one or more methods or systems. It is not singular all the time. Therefore, whether you call it a methodology or a concept (or whatever word you use), the important thing is that you are doing great work to describe its benefits and application. Obviously, calling it a methodology irks you enough to attempt to get people to change how Agile is described. My point is, your insistence on defining what it ISN’T is taking the viewer away from appreciating what it IS.
I believe I'm using the generally agreed upon definition of methodology:
"a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity"
When I read the Agile Manifesto, I do not feel it meets that definition. In fact, it appears to go out of its way to be methodology agnostic. This differentiation is important because it is the core strength of Agile. Agile doesn't prescribe methods, it just tells you what to value. My experience working with teams is that approaching Agile as a methodology means that they are including some methodology and saying "this is Agile." They may pick a great methodology, but an inability to differentiate between the methodologies they are following (Scrum, Kanban, XP, something you came up with yourself) and the values that would be used to judge whether or not the methodology is working well for them. Now for some teams maybe that doesn't matter, but on teams that are being called on to adapt to significant change, it does matter. Since adapting to change is the definition of agility, it becomes important because the differentiation determines whether or not a team is actual Agile or just doing well in their current state.
That all said, I do see your point within the context of this video and I appreciate the feedback. Most of the people who watch my videos are watching multiple ones and my "What is Agile?" video is the longer one that describes Agile in more detail.
Thank you for your feedback and I will keep it in mind on future videos.
Bro, not having a method is a method.
Agile is very much a methodology, an adaptive set of METHODS called VALUES and PRINCIPLES...you follow "specific ways" of approaching work...not calling them methods or methodology is not helpful....especially as methods develop as a result of following the so-called principles.
>"adaptive set of METHODS called VALUES and PRINCIPLES"
I would differentiate between a method (the way you do something) and a principle. For example, if I have a principle that says I need to exercise regularly, there could be many methods that let me do that and the methods may change dramatically with the seasons or as I age, but the principle remains the same.
Agile has a principle that says the most efficient way to communicate is face-to-face. Having everyone work together in a team room would be one method. But during Covid that method was no longer an option. So another method would be to use video conferencing. Maybe someday Startrek style holodecks will be a method that could be used. The principle remains, but the method changes.
What do you consider a methodology that is in the Agile Manifesto?
why does it sound like text to speech
That's actually me. We looked at using text to speech and it was even worse than me talking. :)
My Guy, trynna help here, try putting background music when you talk because it felt boring to watch without music and the pauses made it worse
Otherwise, thank you for the information. :)
Thank you for your feedback!
You sound like a robot. I personally feel like you are reading book
Why can't Americans pronounce Agile properly? These are great videos, but the mispronunciation is off-putting.
I am an agile coach. However, your video was very distracting, because the animations made no sense. Thanks.
We are trying to keep things interesting visually without being distracting and it sounds like we missed the mark on this one. Thanks for the feedback! Do the other videos not seem to make sense or is it just this one?
The animation is completely useless and distracting. This could have been more effective in the form of a blog.
Thanks for the feedback. I do have a blog post with the content, but many people seem to prefer the animation. Here is the link in case it is useful:
blogs.harvard.edu/markshead/what-is-agile-methodology/
Cartoons...this is how millennials learn, isn't it?
Agile is not a Methodology
Exactly. However, since lots of people are searching for Agile Methodology, I wanted to make sure they could find what it actually is.
You have spent more time on making an irrelative cartoon instead of paying attention to the content.
I'm sorry you didn't find it useful. We've tried a bunch of different things with the animation. Do our other videos seem like the animation is more relevant?
My goodness, bla bla bla bla METHODOLOGY bla bla bla bla... GET TO THE POINT!!!!!!!~!
Sorry it wasn't what you were looking for.
If this bullshit comes to your company, quit. Any where else is going to be better.
This is just absolute horse shit.
booo learned nothing