An Agile Mindset in a VUCA-World

As the world is heading into a new era of software development (SD) an Agile Mindset (AM) has been seen to provide valuable underlying guiding elements to navigate an increasingly interconnected, turbulent, and dynamic business landscape, a VUCA-world. This study investigates the topic of agile methods and an AM through multiple-case studies with IT professionals from four tech companies. The study gathers early-stage research data to better understand what an agile SD team member does on an everyday basis in their work to exercise and achieve an AM, and what factors in the organization are impacting them in being able to do so. VUCA has been utilized as a conceptual background through which the findings - AM means and influences - have been identified, concluding that there is still much to be harnessed and learned about the elements of an AM that can improve project success outcomes.