Part I
The Innovation Revolution
A new movement is emerging.
Product and technology development teams all over the world are now quietly engaged in a highly effective revolution that is changing business forever.
They are self-organizing to adapt to the accelerating rate of change and the complexities of the global digital age. Industry after industry, from Internet software, to aviation, to digital health care, to mobile telephony, is using a process called Agile to turn out better results in less time.
Soon Agile will move beyond the technology world because the insights it reveals are applicable across the entire organization.
When this happens, a true revolution will begin—not something limited to the self-contained world of software development, but instead spreading geometrically, catching on in every industry.
The revolution we speak of isn't the kind where people wear berets, wave banners, and hope for a coup d'état. The revolution we mean is a paradigm shift, as described by a modest book published 50 years ago, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by physicist Thomas Kuhn, which went on to be one of the most influential books concerning the history of science. 1
His core ...
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