Discovering Life journey — the Agile way
Heard of the buzzword ‘Agile’ ? Is it just a Software delivery approach ?
Today almost every industry has turned to Agile approach for product delivery.
Well, I believe Agile is not just a professional approach but can also be applied for our personal lifestyles. Or may I say we have been unknowingly following it through ages.
My point of view — Live Life ‘Agile’ size
I have always liked keeping todo lists, do all the planning and executing according to plans. So unknowingly I also had my life choices planned out. Everyone wants to create a career path that fits with their passion and allows them to grow. Obviously my life didn't work out as I had planned for it.
Certainly, I understood that my life is so like a product that follows Agile methodology and not waterfall methodology where end goal is fixed from start.
So what is Agile way of life?
To be able to understand Agile, you have to restrain your instinctive control-minded and process-driven way of looking at things.
Agile is to have a growth Mindset
We all have some life goals but one cannot control how our life events will take place. But to reach the goal, we need to be consistent.
But how do we stay consistent? Well new way to organise work is using the power of analysis, processes and empiricism. This results in growth mindset which is the belief that intelligence is not fixed but can be developed and understanding that learning is our greatest gift.
We also have to embrace the fact that people are unpredictable and can make mistakes. And we are never gonna reach our life’s goal without failures. Yet, we allow ourselves to take control and deal with the challenges. This will bring great results.
Like in softwares, not asserting the outcome in advance, but smartly getting things ‘done’ by constantly improving upon it.
Agile is about people
How do you grow constantly ? One of the approach is by getting people’s feedbacks and also giving your point of views to others(that wil also help you to grow unknowingly). Growth is about helping each other.
One must start by observing, talking to people, understanding their patterns. Also one must start inspecting their choices from feedbacks. Also Inspection enables adaptation.
Agile is about people, and more specifically, about encouraging people. We need to focus on the end product while leaving the ‘hows’ to people. Thats why agile manifesto focuses on results over control.
Agile is about Innovation
Today world has evolved and technology is booming. Innovation has been the single driving force for evaluation of mankind. The desire for constantly searching for new ideas has lead to unbelievable evolution of Earth and mankind. Today , there are so many new industries and jobs. Man has so many new life choices to make.
Agile is about innovating new ideas and not sticking to the originals. We explore, we experiment, we innovate. Thats how we constantly improve. Reaching to the end is important, we do not necessarily need to follow traditional routes .
In Conclusion, it is up-to us whether we want to follow waterfall model or Agile model. But in order to not hit the dead-ends, I have definitely started having Agile transformation in my life. It has impacted and helped me achieve success till now. What about yours?
