Why Agile Breaks Your Organization

A while back I was helping a marketing department with Agile, and that’s a story for another day. This story starts with a comment from a VP who was sponsoring the problem that this marketing team was working on.

He said, “we tend to make it hard on ourselves to get work done with all of our processes. Let’s break the machine.”

The Spock in me thought, “why don’t we make however we get work done around here the actual process? Then we don’t need to worry about breaking the machine!”

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