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_17

17. West Africa

Glaudia Califano¹   and David Spinks¹

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Milton Keynes, UK

 

In a region on the west side of the continent of Africa, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south, and the Sahara Desert to the north, are a number of nation states that include Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, and Mali. The borders of these countries meant nothing until very recently when they were arbitrarily – at least as far as the indigenous people were concerned – drawn by European colonizers.

Free from foreign rule, the people in ...