Chapter 3. EDGE Principles
A digital transformation demands two key ingredients—articulated principles and trust in leaders.
From the beginning, the agile and lean movements have been more about principles than practices, processes, or tools. It’s not that these latter three are unimportant. Rather, by focusing on the principles, you’re better able to make agile and lean work for you. By focusing on principles, you can better build a responsive enterprise. In his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, Jim Collins points out the need to preserve and the need to change. You need to preserve core values and purpose, and that foundation creates the stability required to change culture, practices, and goals. Without ...
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