Analogies
An analogy compares two things that are mostly different from each other but have some traits in common. By showing a connection between two different things, writers help to explain something important about one thing by using a second thing you already know about. The analogies is a tool in the toolkit to explain anything to others more effectively.
Adaptability:
Building with Lego shows adaptability. If, while building, you change your mind, its easy to move bricks around and create what is asked. If something does not work out, it is easy to go back and fix it. The bricks are not superglued.
Agility:
Comparison between Cheetahs and Gazelles:
Cheetah is known for speed in a straight line
Gazelle is known for its ability to change direction quickly. Being agile means being like Gazelle, having the ability to pivot when needed.
Moving forward
Just like a bow and arrow, sometimes you have to step backwards to move forward.
Mistakes
We make mistakes and sometimes we get sabotaged by other people. If someone hit you with a rock, would you start banging your head on the rock? No right? But when you keep on blaming others for what happened to you and do not move forward, It is like banging your head on a rock.
Sometimes wrong decisions are made by teams; learn from them and move forward instead of keeping on blaming others for all the failures the team had after that.
Continue Adapting for Success
When you are driving the car, you have your destination in mind and you take turns or drive straight based on your destination. You also keep looking ahead, keep moving the steering wheel, and use the brakes for some time.
Same is working on an initiative. It’s important to know what your goal is and what you want to achieve so that, based on those long-term goals, you can make your short-term goals (the right and left turns) and also, while steering towards those goals, sometimes you need to slow down or brake but it does not mean that you failed. It’s part of working towards the goal.
Pulling too much in a sprint
A glass has a capacity, i.e., there is a certain amount of water a glass can hold and if we try to add more, the glass will overflow and there will be a mess. In the same way, every team has a capacity, and they can deliver based on that capacity. Forcing the team to deliver more then their capacity leads to a mess with morale issues, undue stress, burnout, etc
Scrum
Scrum is neither good nor bad.
It’s a tool.
Compare it with a hammer 🔨
It can hit the nail or your thumb
It depends on how you use it.
Agile doesn’t mean jumping into the ocean “and then” figuring out your way from US to Japan.
Agile means if you want to go to Japan and don’t know how
1) then pick a boat, and then
2) jump into the ocean.
Let the waves guide you on whether you need to upgrade the boat.
If an upgrade is needed, then stop at a nearby island, use the wood from the trees and upgrade it.
Keep doing it until you reach Japan.
