Why The Term Agile Thinking Sucks
Recently I saw an article on "agile thinking". It was written by someone who really though that they had stumbled upon something profound. Agile Thinking.
What's Old Is New
In the article, the author described in detail how their ability to use agile thinking allowed them to navigate the complexity of their job as well as the (LOL) the planning of their child's birthday party.
There was a description of how they created a list. Then prioritized the items on the list. Then executed them.
Thinking
Wow! What a novel concept.
Creating a list. Putting it in order of importance and then doing the things on the list.
I never thought that my wife and I were practicing the futuristic concept of agile thinking. when we did these things for the past 40 years while raising our family. Or for any number of the tasks we did at home or at work. I didn't realize that the process of our simple thinking was so ahead of it's time.
Why didn't I think of that?
Perhaps I could have come up with "agile thinking" and written about it if I had been practicing agile thinking.....
Maybe it's time to give credit where credit is due and not try to make something "new" out of something "old". Putting a new name on something that already exists doesn't make it new.
Oh, by the way, perhaps this terminology should be added to my bisno-babble lexicon.
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