Agility is all about priority, simplification, cooperation, ownership, value delivery, feedback, and continuous improvement. The test could help teams assess their agility and identify areas that may provide improvements.
It may be useful for a team to ask themselves a few questions in order to check their agility alignment:
are we working on the most important things
do we cut work down to its smallest possible value
do we seek or provide hwlp from peers
do we finish current work before starting new work
do we deliver value on a regular basis
do we get/provide feedback as often as possible
do we learn and adapt our work process iteratively
Becoming aware of basic agile practices will help decide what method to adopt in line with our work context.
Hi, I’m Mario – retired agility warrior from a major Swiss bank, beyond agile explorer, lean thinker, former rugby player, and wishful golfer.
I’ve been in the agile space since 2008. I began consulting in 2012 with a Scrum adoption in a digital identity unit — and that path eventually led me to design an Agile Operating System at organisational scale.
What pushed me further was frustration: poor adoption, illusionary scaling, and “agile” that looks busy but doesn’t improve business outcomes.
That’s why I developed the Adaptive Fitness System (AFS) — an approach that treats agility as fitness for change: fit for purpose, fit for context, fit for execution, and fit for continuous improvement. Today, I use AFS to help organisations sense what’s real, learn fast, and adapt with intent.
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