Tag: Agile

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Agile Principals across Business Sectors

Agile methodology was first designed in 2001 to help software teams respond to the unpredictability that arose with the complexity of software development. Agile moved away from the plan up front predictable project management style of waterfall to an incremental and iterative method. Reading through the Agile Manifesto and it’s twelve agile principals you’ll begin to see the foundation for a company that is thriving in the 21st century.

  • Customer focused
  • Adaptive
  • Intrinsically motivated individuals
  • Collaboration
Twelve Principles of Agile Software Published by Various
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The Friction between Agile Culture and Traditional Management Culture

Steve Denning describes the differences between the traditional vertical structure of management and the adaptive horizontal structure of agile. With the traditional structure being conceived over 150 years ago, Denning details how the business landscape has changed since its origins and how our organizational structures need to adapt to keep up.

Why Do Managers Hate Agile? Published by Steven Denning
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Lean & Agile Organizational Culture

The way people work together in organizations has been evolving for centuries. As each new paradigm emerges it unlocks increasing capacities and capabilities of the individual and the organization. Peter Green summarizes the five paradigms described in Fredric Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations in this 9 minute video.

https://vimeo.com/121517508 Published by Peter Green