When did you come across agile for the first time?
Some 20 years ago, when working on a Content Management System solution in France. The French Ministry of Culture was making a call for a project to help cultural institutions and artists to share and preserve their artistic work. The Ministry launched several initiatives in parallel. They wanted to increase their chances for success and create a bit of competition between participants as well.
“There were so many variables and stakeholders in the project that we realised quickly that the risk to get stuck in planning and conceptualising was real and very high. As a cross-functional team of 4 people, we somehow came up with the idea, to work in blocks of one or two weeks. It allowed us to test and evaluate rapidly. We just did what felt like the right choice at the time. We didn’t care so much about how it was called.”