Becoming a Software Company: Accelerating Business Success through Software

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A. SidhuBecoming a Software Companyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9169-6_5

5. Implement a Strategy of Business Agility, Before the Agile Methods

The Culture Principle

Amarinder Sidhu¹  

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Bay Area, CA, USA

 

The Agile movement is not anti-methodology, in fact, many of us want to restore credibility to the word methodology. We want to restore a balance. We embrace modeling, but not in order to file some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We embrace documentation, but not hundreds of pages of never-maintained and rarely-used tomes. We plan, but recognize the limits of planning in a turbulent environment.

—Jim Highsmith for Agile Alliance

Success has many ...