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The majority of agility is about behavior norms, culture, rather than processes or tools. It’s people, process, and tools, in that order.
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023 |
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In the same category as waterfall is water-scrum-fall. While it is a slight improvement on a fully sequential stage-gate process, it is not agile.
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028 |
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Software is an agile-created box on a lean conveyor belt.
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032 |
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Agility needs to emerge in an agile way.
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053 |
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Apply agility to agility. Start with small teams, small slices of value, and small investments. Achieve big through small.
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076 |
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Concision requires work, as does simplification, descaling the organization and descaling the flow of work end-to-end before scaling up agility.
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077 |
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In order to increase agility, in order to optimize for the fast flow of safe value, work and the system of work needs to be descaled.
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086 |
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As the organization scales agility by descaling the work and the system of work, it is important to ensure that teams with high autonomy also have high alignment.
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087 |
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There is no one size fits all for organizational agility. There is no silver bullet. There is no One Way, no Agile-in-a-box that optimizes outcomes in all contexts.
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094 |
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It’s not about inflicting sameness on every team. In order to maximize outcomes, the approach to organizational agility cannot be cookie cutter.
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095 |