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Self-Organizing Teams – Take 2

I have in a previous post, considered a possible origin of the idea of self-organizing team in Agile methodologies, concluding that I had not found the philosophical source for the practice.  Continuing research has taken me back through a number of sources as illustrated below, with the lighter boxes being Read more…

By Chris Powell, 3 yearsJanuary 15, 2022 ago
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An Unlikely Origin of Agile Thought

Perhaps the most cited reference defining and supporting Agile thinking is the 1986 Harvard Business Review article by Takeuchi and Nonaka, “The New New Product Development Game” (the first “new” is for the new process, the second “new” is for new products created by the process).  It is this article Read more…

By Chris Powell, 4 yearsAugust 16, 2021 ago
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