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The Agile market is not coming back
“The Agile market will eventually recover from the current situation”
This is a statement I have heard frequently while discussing the difficult market conditions the Agile market is going through.
Frankly, I don’t think the Agile market is going to recover.
The heydays of significant levels of investment in Agile are over and they are not coming back.
Rethinking the gold rush years of Agile
If you are wondering why Agile is not going to recover, then we must first reflect on what was happening before the current crisis in the Agile market started.
When we consider why Agile transformations happened, we often think that they were there mainly to achieve a change in the organisation. However, I will argue that this was (often) not the actual purpose for the transformation and that we may be missing the actual driving motive.
To be able to evaluate this, we first need to flip our perspective and look at this from the point of view of a CxO. In particular, a CIO or a CTO.
When you consider their needs and motivations, one thing a CIO/CTO must do is to look strategic and modern. This is key for their professional standing and career prospects. It is part of what is expected of those…
