Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility by Jim Highsmith
By Jim Highsmith
The agile software program flow has now been round for an entire decade. As coauthor of the unique Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its center because the starting. he is spent the earlier decade supporting countless numbers of enterprises transition to agile / lean. in terms of agile, he is visible it all–in quite a few industries, world wide. Now, in Adaptive management, he has compiled, up to date, and prolonged his most sensible writings approximately agile and lean tools for a administration viewers. Highsmith does not simply display what is operating and what is not; he deals a robust new imaginative and prescient for extending agility around the company.
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Thanks to Martin Fowler, Jez Humble, and Ken Collier for their comments and ideas on this section. info CHAPTER 2 A DAPTIVE LEADERSHIP TODAY 36 A Hudson Bay Company expedition would set out to spend months in the wilds of Canada, traveling mostly by canoe. To ensure nothing catastrophic had been forgotten, the adventurers would camp the first night or two within a short distance of their departure point. By setting up camp, cooking, and performing other camp activities, the group had a good chance to figure out if anything major had been forgotten.
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