A big insight for me about where Agile seems to work and where it doesn't was learning about the Cynefin framework [1], which tries to characterize different st

A big insight for me about where Agile seems to work and where it doesn't was learning about the Cynefin framework [1], which tries to characterize different states to guide the style of organizational decision making. When viewed through the lens of Cynefin, Agile seems to make sense when you've narrowed down a problem space you want to tackle, but you still require rapid iteration and experimentation to finish defining all the finer points of the goal (the liminal state when moving from Complex to Complicated). My impression and personal experience of Agile being a bad fit seems to be associated with a misunderstanding of the decision domain, and the general Agile "religion" that has arisen where it's applied uniformly to every situation. [1] http://cognitive-edge.com/videos/cynefin-framework-introduction/ http://cognitive-edge.com/videos/cynefin-framework-introduct...