Agile for organizations has proven to be the primordial asset to sail ahead amidst the ever increasing competition, demand, technology, regulations and various other parameters. In fact, majority of the organizations are strictly using agile practices and methods in their business operations today, thus becoming dynamic and stable in every possible manner. Agile organizations irrespective of size or industry must adhere to the five trademarks listed-out in the McKinsey report, 2018. These trademarks include North Star embodied across the organization, network of empowered teams, rapid decision & learning cycles, dynamic people model that ignites passion and next generation enabling technology. On the whole, this report summarizes the evolution of ‘organizations as machines’concept into ‘organizations as living organisms’.

At the development level, there are a plenty of Agile methods available to companies namely Scrum, Kanban, Feature Driven Development(FDD), Lean Software Development (LSD), Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Agile Software Development (ASD), Extreme Programming(XP), Crystal and a lot more. But choosing the best one among these is purely dependent on the purpose of one’s business and also on the understanding that they have on each method’s functions and not just features. Scaled Agile

Framework(SAFe) and many otherscaling frameworks are the backbone for an enterprise level growth today. SAFe is the brainchild of Dean Leffing well, Co-Founder & Chief Methodologist, Scaled Agile. Trending among behemoths today, this new framework effectively amalgamates lean and agile development and is well suitable for companies that are mostly outcome oriented rather than practice oriented. In fact, the traditional Scrum is being replaced by SAFe, Scrum at Scale and other scaling frameworks at bigger companies while a lot others are still struggling to properly deploy them due to lack of basic insights on their business objectives.

Despite 17 years passing after the release of Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a bulk of companies still haven’t adopted good Agile wherein they are just mimicking the practices & solutions but with no proper understanding. Superficial Agility is the term attributed for this act of mimic, which states that most companies today implement Agile & Scrum without having a clear picture about their goals or the outcomes they envision to achieve. What really helps these companies is to increase their networks with well-experienced Agile practitioners & networks, converse with them, understand their stories, and learn the true essence of Agile. Attending conferences is one major source for them to truly master Agile and most importantly, savour the best of all results from their business endeavours. For instance, Agile India 2019, the largest conference in Asia on leading edge software development methods is a greatest platform for companies to learn Agile through coach camps & workshops galore. The 15th edition of this conference took place recently from March 17-23 at Bengaluru, which witnessed 397 invited, accepted and proposed submissions from the most eminent speakers across the globe.

On the other hand, a swarm of Agile consulting firms and companies holding exemplary Agile services and solutions, has emerged over the past decade in India. This emergence of acclaimed and experienced consultants has given a new hope to organizations that are finding it difficult to adopt Agile in their businesses while infusing a purpose in their careers.

The future of Agile in India will behold flying colours, only if the organizations avoid repeating the same mistakes in their coming business endeavours, learn from them and step out with improved practices and ideas that can truly bring out the might of Agile.