What’s the difference between a methodology and a terrorist?

We took the Valize team on the road to attend this exclusive, high-level event. Here are a few snippets.

You can negotiate with a terrorist!

Ivar Jacobson was referring to the tendency for inventors of tools and methods to want to keep them proprietary. What this creates is confusion as similar tools doing similar things compete with one another, creating confusion. This comment was made during Day 2 of the World Agility Forum, when Jacobson was announcing a new initiative to make frameworks readily available. What he was getting at is the insistence that many have that their methodology is the One Best Way, when in fact there are many ways of getting to a final destination — it doesn’t all have to be one.

Jacobson and his colleague are setting up a system for practitioners of agile methods to share what works and put it into practice, which they call open source agility.

If you think innovation is risky, try stagnation!

This comment from my colleague Darrell Rigby (of Bain) captures the essence of what he…