The world of project management and software is filled with people being “Agile”! It is the new hip way of saying “we are not doing things like our granddaddy corporation – we are swift and powerful.”
Brian Rabon, a team member on the IEM program, is a project management expert who teaches agile project management. I have also seen others teaching agile programming.
I wonder if we should start an Agile Entrepreneurship program? Perhaps an Agile Escape from Cubicle Insanity program?
Why? Most people I help are corporate types in with strong technical backgrounds. They are thinkers and planners. They have big degrees and big brains to go along with them.
But they are – to be nice – slow. They analyze every detail. I know way too well how it feels – I am in a recovery program from such behavior myself. There is just something comfortable about putting the data into Excel and doing some analysis and sorting. I can even create charts of how it will look – once I finish making pretty pictures and actually start doing something.
But the term AGILE is really starting to grow on me – even though I know companies who adopt agile methods are often just using terms that sound fast – but are still powered by turtles. The term agile means something – at least now. It means speed.
Entrepreneurs looking to escape cubicle insanity need to be agile!!
