Agile Songbook
Songs about Agile, New Leadership, Lean and New Work
The Community Project
A movement is only a movement when it sings its own songs.
A community consolidates when it writes its own songs.
In recent years, many people have not only talked about agility, but also sung about it. These are often rewritten songs, so-called contrafacts, with a certain catchy tune character. They bring a
smile to the listener's face, stay in their head for a long time and make them think about the core message for a long time to come.
The “Agile Songbook” community project is a continuation of the “Agile Short Stories” book series. In 2019, Joachim Pfeffer and I (Miriam Sasse) started the first book project “Agile Short Stories”
with the help of many authors from the agile community. Over the entire summer, they wrote a total of 49 short stories about becoming and staying agile. A book that shows the facets and ways in which
the authors' passion for agility was awakened.
Volume 2 followed in 2023 with “Agile Missions Impossible” - a collection of stories about the difficulties and obstacles of agile transformation and the introduction of agile approaches.
With “Agile Songbook” we collect songs about core thoughts, values, beliefs, strong feelings - about what moves us sustainably and what we want to process and publish with music.
With Agile Songbook, many authors will wrap their thoughts in a musical dress.
Be part of the Agile Songbook
If you would like to enter your song, you can send it to mail@miriamsasse.de by March 31, 2025 or post it using the #AgileSongbook. To make sure it gets discovered, shared, commented on and
supported by the community, you can post the link to the entry on this page in the comments.
You can record and share a video or audio file of your song. You can also just share the lyrics (to a known melody) or the sheet music to the song.
Of course, you can also have someone else or an AI sing your song. :)
We will not be able to include every song in the book. The community will vote with their reactions and comments which songs are very popular. Another factor will be whether your song can be recorded
according to Gema guidelines and the wishes of the author. This is not a problem for self-penned songs and for counterfactuals to songs that are over 70 years old. For all other songs, we will have
to check this individually.
The third factor is whether you have a story to tell about your song:
How did you come up with the theme of your song?
What message do you want to make with it?
What values and principles are behind your song?
Publication Details
As described above, we check the Gema guidelines and the author's releases for each song.
This will take some time after 03/31/2025 (submission deadline).
If you have been selected, we will write to you and ask you for a print release and a short accompanying text for your song.
We will publish the sheet music with piano or guitar accompaniment in the Agile Songbook. For very well-known songs, we can also publish just the lyrics. The accompanying text will be printed for
each song.
The book is due to be published in June 2025. As with our books Agile Short Stories and Agile Missions Impossible, we will donate all proceeds to the Flying Hope association. Flying Hope is a
non-profit organization that arranges free flights for children who are dependent on the help of others due to their physical, mental or emotional condition and do not have the necessary financial
means themselves.
What songs are we looking for?
Although it is called “Agile Songbook”, we will not only include songs about agility in the book. Above all, it is the discourse that we want to promote. These could be songs against agility, about
lean, new work, the new economy or the future of work.
The style of music can also be freely chosen:
Rock, pop, dance, Schlager, R&B, classical, folk music, metal, rap, funk... the genres are numerous, just as our agile songs can be diverse and different.
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