Fractals and Agile

Fractalfoundation.org

A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over.

Mathematical fractals are generated by applying a feedback loop to a system.

Z = Z2 + C

Tathagat Varma. 

• Mathematical fractals unlike natural fractals can keep self repeating indefinitely. 
• They are the best examples of - Simplicity leads to complexity.
• They appear complex, but are essentially repeating a basic shape repeatedly, infinitely.
• Fractals are nature's mechanism to replicate organization without exhibiting a central control. 
• Agility could be modeled as a fractal behaviour of software teams to ensure the core focus on agility loop is always retained, despite scale.
• In practice, the notion of agility at each level would undergo changes but the core behavior of agility loop gets preserved, and allows agility to grow scale free!

How Agile relates to Fractals
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