The Agile Mindset

Becoming agile starts with you

This article highlights what having an agile mindset actually means and how having this superpower makes you a better and more empowered collaborator, teammate, and person.

What is an agile mindset?

It is an attitude that supports the agile working environment through core values, these include:

• Respect: Working with your team as a collective; united in your vision, purpose, and goal.
• Collaboration: As mentioned above, you need to have the ability to work with your team and carry empathy for Your customers’ needs. This is what drives the value in the work you do.
• Learning cycles: Responding to change means learning from failure and making improvements to do better next time.
• Improvement: The output from learning cycles is your ability to learn from what works and what has not. And adapt from what you learned to improve, first slowly and then at a rapid pace. The beauty is that it is organic — because it is intrinsic on the process, you improve in small incremental changes.
• Accountability: By working as a team and taking pride in ownership of the work you, you become accountable to yourself and the team.
• Being adaptive: This is about focusing on delivering value, and the ability to adapt to change.