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Changing from a Waterfall mindset to an Agile/Scrum mindset - where do I begin?

Last post 09:29 pm December 26, 2025 by Maciej Jarosz
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12:44 pm December 26, 2025

Hi,

Throughout my 13 years as an IT Project Manager in Operations, I've handled large projects – between 3 and 5 years. We used PMI framework waterfall based deliverables. Software releases represent approximately 10% of the total project deliverables. 

I'm going to start overseeing the R&D area, whose software development releases are launched monthly.

I want to start adopting an Agile/Scrum mindset.

I don't know where to begin/implement a sustainable learning path!

Can you help me get some direction? A starting point?

Thank you for your help and support!

Joseph.

 

 


05:33 pm December 26, 2025

I want to start adopting an Agile/Scrum mindset.

That's an innovation mindset in which people learn to build the right thing at the right time. Think of each monthly release as a learning experiment and an opportunity to test an hypothesis.

To be valid, each deliverable must be of usable quality. Otherwise the experiment may fail not because the wrong thing was built, but because it fell over and broke.


09:29 pm December 26, 2025

I'd say here is a fairly decent starting point - to undersatand the differences between agile (aka lightweight software development) vs waterfall (aka heavyweight software development):
- https://medium.com/blackblot/origins-of-the-agile-manifesto-ee9c53d60bde

If the link would not work then try searching for Origins of the Agile Manifesto by Gabriel Steinhardt

Or another point of view, Agile being known as scientific method or trial & error is around the planet since first apes learned how to put a piece of wood on fire or tested which mushrooms were eadible. 


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