Not Everyone Can Be Agile

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Summary

• There is no getting around the hype surrounding Agile, the organisational concept originally codified by software developers in 2001.
• Developmental initiatives that tap multiple functional departments to better serve customers, rather than routine day-to-day operations, are the kinds of challenge Agile was originally meant to facilitate.
• It bears repeating that Agile is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
• If you know why and how the manifesto came to be, and you understand the shared mindset of those people who wrote it, then you understand this mindset can be applied to absolutely everything, from school to restaurants, from building fighter jets to art work.