Project Management

Openness, trust, and autonomy are emerging as the cultural currency for companies who want to attract the best people and get the most out of them.

Agile is a cultural value, and teams should be empowered to work how they best see fit. Agile frameworks work alongside cultural values, but if you don’t have the cultural default, then what you do could turn out flawed from the get-go.

Call it “faux,” “dark,” or “cargo cult,” these agile subversions often lead to situations that fly in the face of the Manifesto’s intentions—micromanagement, burnout-rate pacing, lack of delivery, and adherence to process over principles register as the most egregious—even if their practitioners come with a certificate.

Agile Frameworks

Favored by software development teams: - Scrum - Extreme Programming (XP)

Darling among service-oriented teams like IT or human resources: - Kanban - Lean

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