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Agile Is Not Enough
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Agile Is Not Enough

By addressing architectural rigidity, closing talent gaps, and adopting a product mindset, leaders can realize agile’s power.

Will Poindexter and Steve Berez
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2019
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For companies that aren’t digital natives, agile approaches often deliver disappointing results. Certain factors in organizations hamper agility and reduce its benefits. Writing for MIT Sloan Management Review, Will Poindexter and Steve Berez – partners in Bain & Company’s Technology and Agile Innovation practices – describe three organizational factors that undermine agility and outline what leaders can do about them.

Take-Aways

  • Leaders need to support agile development by fixing problems that inhibit it.
  • First, remedy rigidity in IT systems.
  • Second, restore and realign internal talent, and rethink accountability.

About the Authors

Will Poindexter and Steve Berez are partners with Bain & Company’s Technology and Agile Innovation practices.

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