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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. In this article, I explore these principles to demonstrate that any organization can apply them to improve its “way of working.” Companies innovate and develop new products.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management.

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. Changing a traditional production tool is long and difficult, generating high costs, hindering innovation, and causing loss of economic opportunities.

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Agile Is Not Dead, It’s Evolving!

Scrum.org

This article is a follow-up post to “ Agile is Dead.” Despite frequent claims of Agile's death, I don't consider this to be true. This is where innovation or evolution stops. It's interesting to think about Agile in the context of Ecocycle Planning. So, what do the recent claims of Agile's death tell us? ?

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5 ways productivity culture kills business agility

Scrum.org

Agility is supposed to be about enabling people to do their best and most creative work. And yet, we often see so-called agile practices and frameworks being used in ways that are more about trying to control outcomes and people. And then we say that we are agile and open to change, so it’s all good.

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Does precarity impede agility?

Kiron Bondale

“ This made me think about the companies I’ve worked with over the years that had tried to increase their delivery agility and the relative differences in success between those which had few precarious workers and those which had much more. Precarity reduces safety, and without safety, nothing else matters. (If

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Agile OKRs to Measure Improvement in Flow and Value Outcomes OKRs

Scrum.org

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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