Agile has lost its soul. The soul lingers about finding a new home.
Agile is like an empty carcass. Something that in today’s world is meaningless. As a matter of fact, it is more related to failure than success as not many organisations can claim the adjective of being agile.
Agility, on the other hand, is still viable. Because it’s a quality and attitude that is attained through sense making practice. It could be saved.
Making sense of the Agile principles and applying them in order to achieve or improve new ways of working is what going beyond agile is about.
Beyond Agile is a trip towards agility. And the way forward may be through lean, flow management, and theory of constraints. It’s evolving beyond agile principles, embracing a mindset for nimbleness.
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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