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The Agility Cycle - Part 3

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Written by Brad Appleton   
Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:53
In Part 1 of this series we discussed the Business Agility Cycle and then in Part 2 we derived the Software Agility Cycle from that by applying "the people factor" of Agile development to the business-agility cycle.

That "people factor" of Agile development essentially boils down to the notion of emergent behavior/structure through self-organization of collaborative "agents." The resulting discussion used of lot of jargon from complexity science and wasn't particularly easy to follow. Feedback from one reader even suggested the resulting "steps" in the agility-cycle came across as so much Zen/Yoga mumbo-jumbo.

To make matters worse, I wasn't exactly ultra-consistent in how I characterized th[...]
 
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