Adopting Agile Across Borders: A Guide to Navigating Cultural Complexity in Agile Teams and Organizations

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G. Califano, D. SpinksAdopting Agile Across Bordershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6948-0_13

13. The Netherlands

Glaudia Califano¹   and David Spinks¹

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Milton Keynes, UK

 

The iconography of the Netherlands hints at a country whose people are highly practical. Ubiquitous canals throughout the nation enable travel, irrigation, and the removal of water in a country where a significant percentage of the land is below sea level. Polders, artificially created areas of land reclaimed from bodies of water enclosed by dykes has created more space for development and agriculture.

The flatness of the land itself could be a metaphor for how the Dutch like to arrange ...