In Practice: Applying the Rules

Agile coaches and authors of this book Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies, share a story about a liftoff designed and facilitated for an IT team. Two company systems were being integrated, and the team was charged with finding, fixing, and testing all of the places where data could be corrupted and cause failures in numerous programs running infrastructure systems, such as payroll. Diana and Ainsley describe how the Five Rules of Learning and an awareness of complex adaptive systems made a big difference in the successful liftoff.

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Pulling together thirty people, four newly assigned teams, the head of IT, a project manager, a facilitator, and a program manager on short notice doesn’t happen often. But ...

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