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The Agile Enterprise
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The Agile Enterprise

by David Asch
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
174 pages
4h 1m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 5

A Closer Look

Obstacles to Agile

Agile is merely a sensible way to chip away at large chunks of work, not a panacea to cure all corporate ills. Organizational dysfunction manifests in myriad ways, many of which result in failed Agile sprints. The first step in achieving agility is to recognize and address the issues in a company that prevent heads-down work.

Humans aren’t designed to do two things at once except for walking and chewing gum. Rather, people are unable to simultaneously concentrate on two things. No matter how much a teenager claims superhuman multitasking abilities, they are merely devoting small slices of time to multiple endeavors, likely performing well on none of them.

Almost every state in America, and many other ...

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