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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. Lean Lean principles originated in Japan’s manufacturing sector after World War II but have since been adopted by various industries worldwide. Lean organizations achieve these goals through empowerment and incremental change.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Since the popularization of “agile” software development following the publication of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, thousands of companies have undertaken “agile transformations” or “agile adoptions” of one form or another. Half-Agile Transformations.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

So you think about like the signing of the manifesto back in 2001, what was going on during that time is Scrum was at the table, XP was at the table, Leanne was at table. What we’ve found is really interesting is that most people don’t fundamentally understand the story. That’s moving through a set of various states.