Dedication
To all those Lean Agile professionals who approach their “task” with scientific spirit and intellectual honesty.
To those who know when to change course, and who can recognize that what they once believed to be a North Star may turn out to be only a lantern in the desert.
Prelude
After more than twenty years devoted to coaching and organizational consulting in the Lean Agile field, the arrival of retirement marks for me the closing of a long iteration—like the completion of a turn in a spiral.
It feels as if I have returned to the conceptual and existential point where I was before the age of forty: a “different” person, deeply interested in the social and political themes of the radical left, in secularism, science, and research—and completely disinterested in business.
In between, there were two decades of total, passionate immersion in the world of Lean Agile methodologies, guided by the most innovative and transformative principles—though not always in tune with the vision of other coaches, some of whom held political ideas diametrically opposed to mine.
Today, I feel it is time to resume the journey I set aside about twenty-five years ago, enriched by the awareness and lessons gained through this long voyage in Lean Agile.
Fig. 1: Fabio Armani towards OpenLogos
First Movement – The Long Farewell
In Italy—where scientific culture is fragile, almost ethereal—I have often seen the value of theory neglected, as if it were an unnecessary luxury.
And yet, as a physicist, I know that theory and practice are not opposing poles, but parts of a single infinite curve, like a Möbius strip: those who can perceive its continuity understand that evolution is born only from this intertwining.
In my Agile journey, I have met many capable and generous people, but also many trapped in their own comfort zone, reassured by the accumulation of practices and tools.
It was like watching a paradox: proclaiming to navigate complexity, yet retreating into rituals that—however comforting—ended up betraying the very spirit of the first principle.
For some time now, the Agile Manifesto has no longer been my guiding light. Even in my years of scientific training, I sensed broader horizons. Agile remains, in my eyes, a small tool for small teams, born in a specific context—Western, neoliberal—to optimize work and improve the lives of software developers.
Useful, certainly. But not sufficient for the challenges now calling to me.
On OpenLogos.eu, I now wish to pour out the wealth of experiences and knowledge gathered over these decades. I will do so with the same passion that, since 1999, has driven me along this path.
I leave it as one leaves a great love: ended in time, yet still alive in gestures, faces, and conversations born in respect of the first principle. There is no regret, only a light nostalgia—like that which accompanies travelers when, looking back, they see the last profile of beloved mountains disappear.
Today, my Eisenhower matrix places Agile far from both urgency and importance. And yet, I feel the duty to pass on what I have learned—not as truth, but as an offering.
Second Movement – The Visionary Opening
Because this is not a farewell, but a passage.
I leave one room to open others—wide to horizons that touch everyone’s lives: the future of our societies, the transformation of consciousness, the relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence, the care for a planet that is asking for our attention.
The last stretch of my journey will no longer be centered on processes and frameworks, but on the ability to imagine and build possible worlds.
Greater challenges, riskier ones—but also more necessary.
OpenLogos will be the place where memory and vision, storytelling and analysis, art and science intertwine.
An open laboratory where those who wish will find not a doctrine, but an invitation—to think, to doubt, to create.
Those who knew me as a coach may find a different version of me: less of a “facilitator” and more of an “explorer,” less focused on optimizing what exists and more drawn to transcending it.
And so, with a slow and steady step, I leave behind me the echo of retrospectives and stand-up meetings.
Ahead of me, I can already feel the wind of longer journeys.
fA 08.13.2025