What makes agile development and project management successful? While there are many factors in agile’s success, four key ones are: a bias for action, a focus on customer value, the appeal to doers, and being principles based. One of the most famous, or infamous, management books ever written was In Search of Excellence : Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies, by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman. This book, published in 1982, has been criticized in some circles because some of their designated “Best Run Companies” fell on hard times after the book’s publication. However, there are some ideas about what makes successful companies that can be compared with agile success factors. “Do it, fix it, …

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