Tag: agile leadership
🚗 How Toyota Built Agile Before Agile Existed – Lessons from the Lean Revolution
1. The Context – Japan’s Postwar Crisis and Toyota’s Constraint In the late 1940s, Japan’s economy was shattered.Toyota, a small automaker compared to global giants like Ford, couldn’t compete in volume, scale, or capital. But instead of copying Detroit’s assembly-line model, Toyota flipped the script:If we can’t be the fastest or the largest, we’ll be…
🌀 Agile Is a Temperament, Not a Toolkit: The Missing Truth in Project Management
▶️ Introduction – The Agile Delusion Everyone wants to be “agile” today.But most are faking it—with sprints they resent, backlogs they never touch, and retros they sleepwalk through. Agile is not something you run. It’s something you become.This piece is for those ready to move from Agile-by-process to Agile-by-personality. Let’s unpack how real agility shows…
🔄 Agile Project Management: From Lockstep Plans to Adaptive Flow
▶️ Introduction: The Pivot That Changed Everything Not long ago, projects were planned meticulously, timelines tightly scoped, and budgets firmly frozen.And yet, despite all that planning, failure rates remained high.Something was off. Deliverables were on time but irrelevant. Teams were working hard—but not smart. Agile emerged as a response—not a trend.It wasn’t created to sound…
