This story would interest you if you are new to Agile and are planning to adopt it with full enthusiasm.
Xlabs started Agile adoption with the full fanfare. It had the upper management support and the team was convinced about its values and the results it could bring to the table. Four iterations down, Xlabs started feeling that things were not working out as well as they expected them to be. They tried for a few iterations more with even more disappointing results. Finally they came to the conclusion that Agile was overrated and worked only for a few organizations. Let down by the results they moved back to what they had been doing for ages, waterfall. The management however was reading about the agile development success stories around the world and decided to do a root cause of what went wrong.
Within a week the process auditing folks came out with the basic flaw with the way Agile was adopted. Xlabs had no idea about Shu-Ha-Ri! and hence they adopted agile in the incorrect way thus leading the current state of affairs.
So what is Shu-Ha-Ri and why is it so important?
