Having agility is the point of Agile, and scaling Agile from software development to enterprise-wide behavior is not scaling Agile "out" -- it's scaling agility "Up".
2. The manifesto
Processes & Tools: Why not?
Comprehensive documentation: why not?
Contract negotiation: why not?
Following a plan: why not?
In all cases, the answer is in how those conventional means
inhibit an effective responsiveness to a value-seeking need
for change from prior course or expectation.
Put in even more obvious terms, the conventions are about
prediction and control.
Whereas, the new and foreseeable “normal” calls for
influence and navigation.
3. What is development?
Development, by definition, means to build growth.
We know that “growth” can occur unattended, and that “building” might target
only restoration or assembly.
Growth, by definition, includes both a static difference from a lesser maturity or
extent; and, a dynamic difference from a prior persistent state.
However, at any given time it does not (by definition) require both.
Intentional development is undertaken to produce preferred value.
When either the current preference has changed from the prior, or the prior
derived value is insufficient for its purpose, the practice of intentional development
must adjust to accommodate the newer (previously unintended) difference.
In adjustment, intentional development requires resources and behaviors that
must be used effectively under the currently immediate requirements of preferred
value.
4. Identifying the culture of agility
From those (above) aspects of intentional development we understand
where inhibitors to preferred value have the greatest impacts:
• Recognition of preference
• Sufficiency of produced value
• Effective variation of practice
• Necessary resources
The key means of preventing inhibition is the influence of proactive
cultivation. For example, agile software development’s cultivation is:
• Recognition of preference: Customer collaboration
• Sufficiency of produced value: Working software
• Effective variation of practice: Individuals and interactions
• Necessary resources: Responding to change