10 ways: How to fail Agile.

Gautam Kumar
9 min readDec 21, 2023
10 ways: How to fail Agile.

10 things you might be doing which might be failing your Agile adoption, if you are struggling to deliver the promised agility? Then one of these might be the reason for that.

Many organizations fail to understand the hidden pitfalls that derail their progress. Let’s uncover the critical factors that are breaking your Agile journey.

Here are the 10ways how you can fail Agile.

1. Not giving enough time for transformation

Frustrated with slow progress and missed deadlines? Suddenly you wake-up one day and want to adopt Agile, but don’t like to spend time to make those changes gradually and learn from the mistakes, continuously evolve to perfect the process to make it your own.

Then you might be killing Agility before you have even started. To discover the hidden leverage points within Agile, behind the buzzwords that can unlock rapid value delivery and to transform your organization’s performance takes time. If the time is compromised, then potentially you are going to overlook elements that can make or break your agile adoption.

Agile as a process may look straightforward, but in the journey of transformation mindset plays a key role. To make that shift in mindset need proper training and coaching across the organization.

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Gautam Kumar

I am a Agile and PMP practitioner, by adopting proper process to enhance the performance of the People & Project will led to successful project outcome.