Personal Agility was inspired by core Scrum principles:
Inspect and adapt at regular intervals
Produce something of value at regular intervals
A team solves the whole problem
One voice is responsible for answering the question 'Why?'
A coach helps everyone get better Personal Agility is at its heart a coaching framework, inspired by the concept of Powerful Questions.
The events in Personal Agility represent opportunities to ask yourself powerful questions to help you recognize and focus on doing the things that really matter to you. Your answers may encourage other, deeper questions. “What really matters” is that something of value. How you answer that question depends on your context, but once you have it figured out, what really matters provides context for answering the other questions. The roles reflect the key activities of doing work, prioritizing work, and asking questions about the work and the priorities. These roles suggest patterns for collaboration with others including family, friends, customers, managers and stakeholders. The tools of Personal Agility enable you to understand your priorities, past, present and future, and manage and plan your activities. Their purpose is to make it easy to figure out what to do next.
In a nutshell Personal Agility is how you:
You set aside time for yourself, or meet your coach or your manager once per week to review the last week and set goals for the upcoming week.
You celebrate what you accomplished, even if it is different from what you planned.
You discuss what's important, what's urgent, and what you want to accomplish this week.
You decide what order you want to do things in.
You may reserve time for important, but non-urgent goals.
You set a key goal each morning for your day.
You visualize your goals and tasks with a Priorities Map.
Priorities Map
You may use a task board such as Trello to visualize your Priorities Map and calendar to plan the things that need coordination with other people. Personal Agility is not about contemplating your navel or answering the deeper questions of life. Nor is the purpose to “spin the hamster wheel faster.”
Personal Agility will help you figure out what really matters in the sense of what drives your actions. Once you have figured out what really matters or where you want to go, Personal Agility will help you get there.
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