12 Principles of Agile Living

In the previous blog, I explained the four values of Agile Living.

''Individual and interaction over process and tools.'' It means when you apply Agile Living, conscious living, you will have awareness about yourself, and interact with yourself, rather than chasing the external process or tools to upgrade your life.

''Working software.'' It means when you apply Agile Living, conscious living, you will have awareness about what you are creating. The life you are creating has to be workable, like workable software.

''Customer Collaboration.'' It means when you apply Agile Living, conscious living, you will learn to see yourself as your client and serve yourself as your client. The best relationship with a client is collaborating!

Be collaborative instead of putting yourself and your clients under a constrained contract!''Responding to change.'' It means when you apply Agile Living, conscious living, you will learn to have a flexible life. When the plan is not working, you will know how to respond to the changing situations.

12 Principles of Agile Living

You are aware of the values of Agile living. Let us understand the 12 principles of Agile living—a fabulous way of life management.

1. The first and highest priority of our life is to satisfy ourselves through the early and continuous delivery of valuable ''life software''. It takes time to create the life we want. But, eventually, the useful life we make is the product we create for our clients, who are ourselves. Therefore, engaging ourselves in early and continuous life development is essential.

2. Embrace the changes in requirements even late in the development.

In the software industry, if a development team adopts Agile as a software lifecycle, the team will develop the software iteratively and incrementally. Therefore, it gives customers an excellent opportunity to adjust their requirements, even at the last minute of development. If the customer needs to change the requirement for a more competitive solution, the Agile development team will follow this principle.

In the same way, when you adopt Agile living in your life and follow this principle, you won't get frustrated if any last-minute changes are required. It is because when you are consciously aware of the guide and rules, you must follow, you will find it easy to drop the emotional space. Once there is no emotion, you can accept the changes and keep doing.

3. Principle three, deliver the working software more frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale. Again, this helps increase the confidence in the quality of the product. And mitigate the risks in software. In frequent delivery, a team can identify the quality issue and risks in the early stage of the development. It gives the team time to mitigate the risk and improve the product quality while developing.

In the same way, when you apply Agile in your life development, let's say you want to be a YouTuber, the principle here will encourage you to deliver youtube videos more frequently. Because you know, by doing so, you will grow by collecting feedback on each delivery. You will see what you need to improve in your next video. The quality of the video content and other areas will be under your control. Quality creates quantity. In your career as a YouTuber, you will get subscribed more when you have more quality in your videos.

4. The fourth principle of Agile living is you need to understand what you want to achieve in your life and how you want to achieve what you want.

What and how needs to be on the same page. Technically, you need to understand what are the better solutions to get what you want to achieve.

You are the owner of your life. The life you want to achieve is the product you wish to create. So it means you are the product owner; at the same time, you are the creator of the life you want; it means you are the developer, as in software development. When both identities of you work together, you will get a common understanding of the direction in which the work is moving. In the story of '' I want to be a YouTuber'', you want to manifest the reality. So you will be the owner of the life '' I am a YouTuber''. At the same time, you need be aware that It is you who will take action to develop yourself as a YouTuber. The action taker is the developer. You can't just only be doing and doing without checking with the owner of the life. It would be best if you work together with yourself and make sure what you are doing and how you are doing is supporting what you want to achieve.

The fifth principle of Agile living is to keep your working environment motivated. Encourage yourself, inspire yourself and trust yourself. Don't deny yourself, don't blame yourself, don't hate yourself. The result you achieved with motivation is unbelievable. Just remember, Self-drive is ok, but drive with the right fuel.