Agile Like You Mean It

After carefully selecting an article and reading and rereading it, I became intrigued at how agile was being referenced. When referring to agility, most common the thought of aggression comes to mind. When reading this article and supporting articles you find that being agile helps performance, and helps define processes. I chose this article simply because of the title, and the challenge that it poses. It makes the reading, question processes and offers insight as to how to improve. Challenges the reader to take an in- places process and improve it in a timely manner. Once into the article you can only view agility as a helpful tool for process improvement. Reading this article affords the reader to look differently at processes, it teaches the reader that agility is not only physical, but mental as well. It helps you apply the philosophy of agility to process performance for the betterment of a project that affects a group. “Agility is not only physical, but mental as well. It helps you apply the philosophy of agility to process performance for the betterment of a project that affects a group. “Agility is synonymous with quickness, lightness, ease of movement, nimbleness”- Bruce McGraw. After reading related articles on Agile Project Management, it provides an understanding as to how agility is applied according to the subject matter. For example a basketball player’s agility would differ from an IT Project Manager’s. Although the basketball player and the manager both have to execute a practiced decision in a timely fashion, the mindset is different. When agility is used as a tool it helps with effectiveness and provides a better outcome. In managing projects I think you have to apply agility in the physical and mental state. Project Managers depend on a team to create, test, execute and modify a process