Pliancy is Another Word for Evolvibility
Dan North has a post about how agility is about coming up with a “repeatable, predictable way to adapt to change”. First of all, as we’ve discovered, “Agility” is about marketing, so in a sense, Dan is wrong. However, getting better at software development _is_ about evolvibilty. Adapting to a changing context and working in a way that best suits that context is the path to better software development.
From Dan’s post:
“As an agile process coach, my job is to increase a team’s – or in the case of an Organisational Transformation programme an entire organisation’s – ability to evolve. Taking a cue from Mother Nature, you can’t expect this to occur overnight. The weight of evidence shows that macro-mutations in the process are almost always going to be detrimental. Instead you need to evolve the organisation towards evolvability, or agility, through a series of small steps that are easy and intuitive to grasp.”
Replace “agile” with “pliant” and I agree 100% with this. Think. Evaluate. Change.