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Being Agile in Business
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Being Agile in Business

by Belinda` Waldock
June 2015
Beginner to intermediate
200 pages
4h 17m
English
Pearson Education Limited
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Agile method

KEY LEARNING POINT

Discover how to adopt a learning-driven approach that delivers results early and allows for improvement.

Agile is a learning-based methodology and a routine of small incremental improvements with time to repeat, reflect and learn regularly recommended. It is an approach that trusts we learn from experience, and we need to provide ways to identify and embed this learning.

When we want to get something done, generally we decide on our goal, define exactly what we want to do, develop that and then deliver it. We try to do this often as a linear process, deciding everything upfront before we design and build, achieving something as good as possible before releasing it.

In software this is known as the waterfall ...

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ISBN: 9781292083735