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Essays from May 2011

3 essays from May 2011

  1. Agile is about customer delight

    Today on twitter I got into an interesting conversation with @jeffpatton. The discussion was about whether Agile, as a family of methodologies and a value system is (or isn’t) directed at customer delight. @JeffPatton‘s point was that it is not. Here’s one of his replies to me on this subject: Later on during the day …

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  2. You cannot transition to Agile. Stop and just embrace it!

    I am writing this blog post to explore a concept. So bear with me, I’ll probably ask more questions than I’ll answer. Why do most Agile fail in our companies (or government organizations for that matter)? My view is that we cannot actually transition from a command and control management paradigm to Agile / Complex …

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  3. Kicking up dust for the Agile Finland 2011-2012 season

    A big moment for the Agile Finland community is approaching. On May 25th we’ll get together and select the new Agile Finland Board for the 2011-2012 season. There are many reasons why it is a big moment. In my opinion it is a big point in our history as a community. Agile Finland was started …

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