Agile


Agile is grounded in the idea that when change is constant, learning must guide how work is planned and coordinated.

The Agile Manifesto captures this through four core value tensions:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working solutions over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan

In the context of the cloud migration, these principles shape how teams adapt as systems, dependencies, and constraints evolve. They emphasize visibility, feedback, and adjustment over enforcing certainty where it doesn’t exist.

When this transformation is working, Agile practices help teams learn their way forward while staying aligned across boundaries.


Related Practices

Cross-Team Alignment Rituals

Lightweight, recurring coordination across teams to surface dependencies early and prevent local progress from creating global friction.

Iterative Planning

Planning as recurring sensemaking—updating direction as reality changes rather than treating plans as fixed commitments.

Retrospectives

Regular reflection on how work is done to turn experience into learning and small, compounding improvements.

Visible Work and WIP Limits

Making work explicit and limiting work-in-progress to improve flow, reduce hidden overload, and support coordination.


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