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Jack Vanlightly
September 17, 2017
People and Practice

You don't need Scrum, you need Agility

Jack Vanlightly
September 17, 2017
People and Practice

Scrum might work for you and I don't dispute that. I am sure it works for many teams, I will not be claiming otherwise in this post. But I do think that Scrum has led many of us down the wrong path and I'll set out my argument in this post. Oh and note that I am talking about Scrum not Agile.

Tagged: Agile, Team Leadership

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