Use agile in everyday work
5 min
Beginner
Build an agile mindset
An agile mindset means you approach your day-to-day work with the agile ideas and concepts in mind. Using agile in practice starts with the way you think. This way of thinking helps you become a more efficient, flexible, and high-performing team member. It allows your mind to be open to continuous learning and improvement.
As you start building your mindset, remember to be patient with yourself. Establishing a new way of thinking requires forming new habits, which take time and energy.
Your agile mindset is a long journey that will be developed and refined over many years. This is just the beginning.
👇 Click to explore six tips for building your agile mindset.
Compare frameworks and mindsets
Your agile mindset will help you think about your work in an agile way, regardless of how your team is structured. Most teams looking to take full advantage of agile use a specific agile framework to put the ideas into practice.
An agile framework provides specific guidelines for how teams should be organized and structure their work. Kanban and scrum are the two most common agile frameworks.
Kanban is a framework that helps your team visualize work and continuously improve. Using a visual board to track work, kanban allows team members to see the status of every work item, at any time.
Scrum is a framework that focuses on iterative and incremental deliveries. Work gets completed in short, time-boxed increments. Teams are encouraged to reflect and learn from experience, always focused on continuous improvement.
Agile itself is not a framework. This is important to understand. Agile is a set of ideas, but it does not provide instructions on how to apply those ideas to your work. That's what agile frameworks, like kanban and scrum, are meant to accomplish.
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