Living Agile: Be Curious, Learn, Pivot, and Change with Andrea Floyd

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague Andrea Floyd, who is about to start her retirement journey and today is sharing her excitement about this new stage in her life. In this episode, Andrea talks about the many ways in which her life was improved by Agile principles and the framework it provides to face different life scenarios and overcome obstacles.

 

Key Takeaways

• Different phases of life involve different goals.

• • We wait for different stages in life with different plans.

  • We collect different tools that we expect will be useful in the new phase.

• Don’t forget to show up with curiosity!

• • Ask questions; get inquisitive and curious.

  • Avoid taking things for granted or making assumptions.

• An organization is a living entity that needs to change and adapt.

• • Agile is a more flexible framework that allows learning, pivoting, and adapting without breaking.

• Some scenarios need to be repeated for consistent outcomes, keep in mind the Agile value behind each scenario.

• Change doesn’t have to be a reason not to move forward.

• • Agile offers safety to explore, inviting people to experiment to go through a learning experience, knowing that it is OK not to know everything.

  • Take a moment to inspect a situation and learn from it.

 

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