Again and again folks tell me that they’re stuck. They embarked on the journey to become agile practitioners, but despite the best intentions, they can’t seem to break through to function as a true, self-directed, self-correcting agile machine.
Instead, they are stuck. Stuck following published “best practices” that someone else came up with for a magazine article. Stuck following a plan that was handed down to them, due on a deadline negotiated by lawyers they’ve never met or spoken with.
The team is practicing some agile methods, but they aren’t agile. Left to their own devices, nothing will change that. They’ve reached the Advanced Beginner stage, and it’s going to take some care and attention to move past this to become a competent practitioner...
Read the rest at http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-06/guru-meditation
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