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

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South America

Curiosity, courage, and compassion. Resilience, resourcefulness, and respect. These and other cultural traits that we saw in South America would seem to be well aligned with the values of the Agile Manifesto.

With nearshoring being an attractive alternative to offshoring, South America has seen a rise in software development teams in the last decade. This in turn has given rise to the widespread adoption of Agile software development.

The very first Latin-American conference on Agile development – Ágiles Latinoamérica – took place in 2008 in Argentina, with 900 Agile enthusiasts attending. Since then Ágiles Latinoamérica has been a recurring event, and interest has been steadily growing across South and Central ...