CHAPTER 3: WHY DON’T MORE ORGANISATIONS USE AGILE?

The Agile community is a tightly knit and extremely supportive group of professionals who are passionate about using – and refining – Agile practices and techniques to provide the greatest benefit to their organisations. The only problem is that the work that they do – and the language that they use – has been so heavily focused on two specific sectors (IT and manufacturing) that other industries have had minimal exposure to the benefits of these approaches.

For example, books on Agile project management techniques have focused, almost exclusively, on how these approaches can improve software development projects, even though much of the content could be equally applied to any time-, cost- or ...

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