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WHY AGILE GOES AWRY

by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive, organizations have rushed to implement agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

Agile Software Development

Frameworks for adaptive software development like agile have been around for a long time and have manifested in many forms. But at the heart of most of these models are two things: forming hypotheses (for example, what is a feature supposed to accomplish?) and collaborating across domains of expertise on experiments, all in the spirit of ...

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