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Why Best Practices in Agile Development Don't Work

Posted October 24, 2012 | Technology |

"So when you come in here to help us start with agile, we also expect to benefit from your collection of best practices you must have as a consultant" is one of the more frequent client expectations we have to disappoint. "We don't have best practices," we answer, "and we don't think it's a good idea to have them."

About The Author
Jens Coldewey
Jens Coldewey is based in Munich, Germany. For more than 10 years, Mr. Coldewey has worked with numerous top 50 large and medium-sized companies to introduce Agile practices and Agile management, specializing in deploying Agile development in large organizations. He is a founding member of the nonprofit AgileAlliance and has served as board member. Mr. Coldewey is Managing Director of it-agile GmbH, the leading German supplier of Agile support… Read More
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