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.
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26 October 2009- 06:12 PM
Why Agile is Successful
by Jim Highsmith, Director and Fellow
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