Why Agile Works Mini-book

About this book

We believe that if organizations adopt agile as a set ofbeliefs, they will develop an agile culture and that this agile culture is whatleads to continuous adaptation and innovation. The focus of the changeeffort must be on the heart, not the head or the hands.Processes and methods can become stale and rote, and can stifle innovation— even processes that were initially developed to be agile. An agileculture, however, will continuously improve and adapt without the needfor periodic change initiatives.Numerous books and best practices exist to help organizations with implementingagile practices, or the “doing” side of the equation. Our reasonfor writing this book is to examine the values and culture that makeorganizations agile.