Agile, Scrum, Kanban and the Lies We Tell Ourselves About Creating Value

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:00:01 +0000

But often, the excitement dies down. Companies feel like Agile isn’t living up to its promises. Teams feel trapped in rituals like standups, retrospectives, and Kanban boards, with little real improvement. Meanwhile, organizations often keep using the same leadership styles, the same lack of psychological safety, and the same outdated metrics. People do the actions of sprints or continuous flow, but see only a little benefit from the big changes.

The Framework Illusion: Let’s Fix Your Value Delivery

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:00:01 +0000

We all love our Frameworks. From Agile to DevOps to SAFe, organizations are constantly looking for the “one single solution” that will solve their challenges once and for all. While the impulses behind this search are understandable—who doesn’t want a proven, repeatable solution to complex problems?—the reality is that frameworks, by themselves, do not inherently deliver results.

Instead, frameworks merely provide a structure that can help teams and organizations do their actual work more effectively. They can outline rituals, suggest pathways, and offer conceptual scaffolding, they do literally just “frame work”. But ultimately, they are only as impactful as the market-facing results provided with them.

Marin Niehues on JAVAPRO International

Agile, Scrum, Kanban and the Lies We Tell Ourselves About Creating Value

The Framework Illusion: Let’s Fix Your Value Delivery