Agile In day-to-day life

[Abhinav Shilwant]

Hello everyone, I am opening this discussion just because I want to know the benefits of using Agile in our daily life. I am working as a software engineer. And we are using agile methodology. Any comments and suggestions are most welcome.

[Dave Rosenlund]

Hi, @Abhinav Shilwant. Perhaps you can clarify a bit. 

Do you mean in "our daily life" outside of work — or at work?

Assuming you mean at work, and given this is the Atlassian Community, you may wish to start with this Atlassian article: Why go agile?

Hope this helps,

-dave

[Frederik Vantroys]

What I soimetimes do is treating some "daily life" projects as sort of a Kanban project : planning holidays, renovating the garden, moving to a new house ... Trello board, making tasks, assigning them all to my wife :-)

Besides ... the agile principles / empirism are hundreds of years old so they can easily be applied to non software related things. The agile principles also : people are more important than processes, be flexible, ...

[Abhinav Shilwant]

Hello @Frederik Vantroys @Dave Rosenlund ,

Thank you for your valuable thoughts. Appreciated!

[Dreamsuite Mike]

Remember @Abhinav Shilwant agile as we know it is not a methodology, it is a set of guiding values and principles that were signed up to by a bunch of people with the intention of making better software.  They have evolved 2001 and will continue adapting, they have to or they are no longer by definition agile.

I think if you are agile at work, you are likely to hold the same values and principles in your life and vice versa. 

Think more consciously about your everyday activities and relate them to your work enviornment. 

How many times in the day do you communicate in a completely different way to friends and family? How often do you assess the landscape and act decisively based on the data you've taken in?  How often do you get things done out of necessity?  How often do things not go to plan and you have to change?   How often do you work things out with family and friends through discussion?  

These are all very agile traits but above all, they are very human traits and you can see the best of them in the right environment.