Is it Time for Kaikaku?
Agile gave us a wonderful head-start in a different direction than the one we’ve used to (heavy weight methods.) Personally I feel we’ve got as much value we could. Now its time to start thinking from a different direction, building on what we already know and to some extent unlearning some things we know.
Wait a second, isn’t Agile all about “Inspect and Adapt”?
There is a limit to “inspect and adapt”. If you look at the Lean movement, most people talk about Kaizen (small gradual change, change for the good, which is in-line with inspect-and-adapt). But very few people talk about Kaikaku (disruptive change or transformation).
Remember Agile was Kaikaku for most of us in late 90s. And then we’ve applied Kaizen to it for many years. IMHO now its time to apply Kaikaku again.
