How do we change from cargo cult agile, to true agile?
The hallmark of a good agile team is the ability to respond to change. Change that can come in the form of customer initiated requests for the product as well as change in the form of guidance that comes from effective retrospectives. Good agile teams are willing to risk, they are willing to act outside of the guarantee of a positive outcome. They decide to risk because the possibility of great things come from endeavoring outside of the strictly known software development universe. Organizations that are steeped in process and that have a heavy handed corporate culture face a challenging endeavor in moving to an agile approach. A culture of following a process because we have always followed this process is likely to find that agile does not play well in that sandbox. These types of corporate cultures, those companies that are most susceptible to becoming a cargo cult in their agile approach, simply do not put in the effort to change their deeply rooted culture, where it is required t
