Chapter 1. Agile in General
When people begin to learn about Agile, they struggle with the values, principles, and practices. This is largely due to the fact that our ideal of what an organization looks like is far from what we cherish as part of our human nature. Instinctively and intuitively, human beings are inquisitive, experiential, exploratory, learning driven, and so on. The corporate world tells us that we must follow the rules and procedures—we must behave and conform.
When we adopt an Agile mind-set, we are really returning to our innovative nature as human beings by looking for ways to continuously improve in spite of process and procedures. ...
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