Courage: The Root of All Agile

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Courage: The Root of All Agile

Doug DeCarlo, Principal, The Doug DeCarlo Group

June 15, 2009






Why is it that a team can be skilled in fundamental agile practices, have access to agile tools and still not be able to achieve the benefits of agile, namely faster delivery, higher quality, lower cost and greater business value?
 
In my experience, the answer nearly always boils down to a failure to exercise Courage. Wikipedia defines courage as the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. You might say, courage means to “do it scared”.
 
Courage is the common denominator that belies all brands of agile, be it SCRUM, FDD, Crystal, extreme programming and others.



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