Interview with Karl Scotland

The Modern Agile Show

Episode 24 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Karl Scotland, veteran agile/lean leader, focused on helping to build learning organizations. Karl discusses how to work with agile strategically. He recognized that four statements I’d written in the first Modern Agile blog were actually strategies and he observed that they might be a better guide than even the four values of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He observes that strategies are generative and enable constraints rather than govern us. He explains what the phrase, “Don’t be a tabby cat trying to be a cheetah” means. He mentions the importance of Richard Rumelt’s book, Good Strategy Bad Strategy. Finally, Karl discusses his work on what he calls the X Matrix.