R. I. P.

I am so tired of all the incremental pronouncements, naysaying, death notices, and despair posts from the Agile community that I’ve seen over the past year. Things like—

Agile is dead

All agile jobs are dead

Agile Manifesto is dead

Lean is dead

Scrum is dead

Agile certifications are dead

Scrum Guide is dead

Agile Coaching and coaches are dead

SAFe is dead (glad for this one!)

TPS is dead

Flow is dead

Agile Measures and Metrics are dead

Kanban is dead

Agile Alliance is dead

Retrospectives are dead

Scrum Alliance is dead

Sprints are dead

iCAgile is dead

Coaching is dead

DevOps, well all the ****Ops are dead

Scrum.org is dead

Value Streams are dead

Business Agility is dead

ScrumInc is dead

Empowered Product Teams are dead

Continuous improvement is dead

Scrum Masters are dead

Agile leadership is dead

Agile conferences are dead

Anything “Agile” or “agile” that I’ve forgotten…is dead

Now that we’ve gotten all of it out of our systems. Can we…

• Get over it and move on,

• Celebrate what’s behind us,

• Optimistically look to the future,

• And begin reimagining and recreating the future without throwing everything away?

That’s what the original signatories of the Manifesto had to do, as it wasn’t pretty back in their day either.

The point is—We Can STOP It!

Stay agile, my friends,

Bob.