Building a better future requires that we understand the events that created the present. The Agile Narrative Project is about building a deeper understanding of the stories and experiences that influence today's Agile adoptions in order to identify trends and improve outcomes.

Your voice, expressed in the narrative and signification data you submit, will join a chorus of hundreds of other stories. We will use the data to:

• Identify both strong and weak patterns across thousands of narratives
• Identify both the positive and negative themes in those patterns
• Experiment with ways we can amplify the positive themes and dampen the negative ones
• Monitor and track trends in our great Agile community

Narratives are submitted anonymously. We do not track email addresses, login info, IP addresses, or any user data that identifies the person who entered the story. That said, it is up to you to provide as little or as much detail as you feel comfortable sharing. Stories will not be used outside of the goals outlined above. Submitted stories become the property of the Agile Alliance.

Thank you for helping us to build a stronger Agile community of practice!

Reflecting on your narrative, use the sliders to indicate the degree of what best describes the situation...

Please keep the narrative you shared first in mind as you rate how you think managers in your organization would respond to this story:

Click in the circle to place a dot where you feel it best describes the narrative. The closer the dot is to any one descriptor, the stronger that statement is in your narrative. Check N/A if not applicable.

People in the narrative are or could be at risk of being:

Click in the circle to place a dot where you feel it best describes the narrative. The closer the dot is to any one descriptor, the stronger that statement is in your narrative. Check N/A if not applicable.

People in your narrative were motivated by:

Click in the circle to place a dot where you feel it best describes the narrative. The closer the dot is to any one descriptor, the stronger that statement is in your story. Check N/A if not applicable.

Your narrative highlights being constrained or enabled by:

Click in the circle to place a dot where you feel it best describes the narrative. The closer the dot is to any one descriptor, the stronger that statement is in your narrative. Check N/A if not applicable.

Collaboration in your narrative is about:

What is your position in your company?

Thank you for your story!

Please join us atAgile2018’sBusiness Agility Lab for the next part of this research. At the conference, we will be taking the next steps in this research, and you can be a part of that. We will be creating experiments to help developers and business people work together more often and in a more Agile way. Feel free to reach out toray.arell@agilealliance.orgfor more information.