There is a lot of hype around organizations that are following the agile mode of working. But in order to actually salvage its reputation, it is important to divorce the hype from reality. The management consulting community every few years laps on to trends, and agile is the latest of them. A lot of sch trends have emerged as the ‘next big thing’, only to be discarded during the next cycle. The agile framework’s origins can be traced to the software industry, but the term was in use even before under separate nomenclatures such as ambidexterity or organic structures. Agile structures may work well in some kind of organizations where employees have been accorded greater levels of autonomy from the start. Better tools will also be needed in such organizations to empower the employees, otherwise agile will simply remain a fragile concept.

Source:https://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/why-agile-may-be-fragile-10201

Uploaded Date:07 June 2019