This is the second booklet in my agile musings series: Beyond Agile – Essays on Effectiveness, Flow, and the Limits of Methodology, and it captures my views on how the actual state of Agile can be improved at the organizational level. It contains a series of essays and posts that invite the reflection about ways to leverage the agile philosophy and ways if thinking.
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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Adaptive Ways 