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Business Agility – The Intersection of Outcomes and Efficiency

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Business Agility – The Intersection of Outcomes and Efficiency. There is a debate In the global Agile coaching and training community about whether we should focus on the outcomes or efficiency of teams. At the same time, there is the question about the difference between business agility and team agility. .

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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Agile Book Club: Optimizing Outcomes

James Shore

In its full glory, Agile is a world in which teams twirl and dance in response to changing market conditions. In the Agile Fluency Model, this is called Optimizing fluency. Subsequent books include Implementing Lean Software Development , published in 2006, Leading Lean Software Development in 2009, and The Lean Mindset in 2013.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. Practicing Agile. Second Edition cover.

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Invest in Agility. As we saw in the previous chapter, in order for your teams to get the benefits of Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. Second Edition cover.

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Scrum@Scale at GOTO Copenhagen and NETS Agile Meetup (slides)

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Of particular interest were two well-attended meetups where I presented a Scrum@Scale overview on how this non-prescriptive framework targets business agility, using Scrum across an entire organization to increase company valuation and stock price. The first meeting was at the NETS Agile Meetup and the second GOTO Copenhagen.

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VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow

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Customers around the world have seamlessly migrated their enterprise applications to VMware Cloud on AWS to combine the scale and agility benefits of public cloud with the security, resiliency, and performance benefits of private cloud. He has held this position since March 2006.

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