Part IIILessons in Building a Corporate Startup

An Educational Company Story

Lessons in Building a Corporate Startup

In section two, I shared with you the ideal transformation, depicting a timeline and the realization of the methods over time. Most books we read end there; they offer the sterile synthesis of the best practice and share a success story or two. I feel this is missing the point. I subtitled section three as “the muddy waters of reality” since in truth things never turn out as planned. Even with the best intentions, transformations change. They both impact and are impacted by organizational realities.

Therefore, in the third section of this book, I share with you mini-stories of successes and failures of enterprise lean agile transformations. ...

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