AGILITY: SAVIOR OR INFLATIONARY USE?
AGILITY: SAVIOR OR INFLATIONARY USE?

Summary/Abstract: In a business context, the term “agility” became known primarily through a working methodology in the field of software development. In 2001, software developers developed the “Agile Manifesto of Software Development”. In it, they describe four values and 12 basic principles for collaboration in agile software development based on Talcott Parsons’ AGIL scheme from the 1950s (adaptation, goal attainment, integration, latency). In the last 20 years, software development has achieved a central position in our economy. As a result of this popularity, the term “agile” has also established itself as an elementary term in the management of projects, departments or entire companies beyond the software development environment. Many of the values and principles of the agile manifesto are now applied to projects or processes in other industries and the term “agile” is used in many different situations. However, the question arises as to what extent the now overused terminology can still be measured against the basic principles and values of the actual purpose and whether the people working in “agile processes” still perceive the terminology as such?

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