We employ advanced processes like Agile to insure the right system is delivered the first time.
The systems are going to need to get simpler and more agile to keep from umm, breaking the bank.
The contribution of Agile to enhanced management practices for dealing with complexity is a shift towards valuing transparency, obliquity, informality, expertise and getting real-world results for customers through iterative approaches, as compared to the traditional management approaches of command, control, hierarchy, rules, formal plans, reports, predictability, short-term efficiency and a preoccupation with saving or making money.
But I would also offer that this is a process, that any kind of financial stabilization efforts are processes where additional actions are taken and markets evolve, political events evolve, and we need to -- our European friends needs to be agile and to be able to continue to evolve.
The focus has shifted from Agile software development to Agile software delivery.
So it's easier for teams to find goalies who are at once large enough to cover much of the net yet agile enough to excel in the NHL. Even in, say, south Texas.
This trend is set to accelerate over the short term and provide new revenue opportunities for anyone agile enough to act.
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How will Agile work to seize some of those new opportunities during that period?
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When energy revolutions occur, however, they require communication revolutions that are agile enough to manage them.
Further, 92 percent of employees said they would recommend an agile approach to others.
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It will need to be flexible, agile, able to quickly adjust to market developments, and ruthless in reallocating resources to new opportunities.
Then be agile enough to pivot, never leaning on blockbuster approaches.
An agile approach to big data puts the means to analyze big data directly in the hands of analysts or data scientists as much as possible.
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Despite this history, some members of Congress contend that this process-heavy court is agile enough to rule on quickly needed National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance warrants.
Early deployments of Agile tended to involve only small teams.
Gibbs had begun to find his touch with four boundaries as the score raced to 60-1 after 11 overs, when he gave Flintoff his 100th Test wicket, Jones taking an agile catch to his right.
Once management undertakes the more strenuous goal of achieving desirable customer outcomes, then a more targeted and agile approach to planning and measurement is required, so as to optimize the prospects of delighting the customer.
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During the mad scene, Dessay raved with even more intensity than she had shown Novak Djokovic, although on this occasion she concluded her final aria before collapsing, a high E-flat being tricky for even the most agile soprano to deliver while prone.
This upcoming "flight to quality" will be very good for the handful of elite blue-chip companies that are showing real growth and not just fooling the market with fuzzy math, and for small-cap innovators that are agile enough to capitalize on niche markets.
Sure, the CIO will need to become more agile, innovative and business savvy to keep the company competitive, but having someone with a holistic view of IT is essential.
To do this, you need an agile big data process to discover insights and way to operationalize the process of the data.
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As the Army tries to become more agile, it is looking for ways to cut weight.
Ipswich continued to look threatening going forward and it took an agile save from Loach to deny Counago, while Watford's on-loan midfielder Henri Lansbury dragged his right-footed strike wide of the target.
The starting point of this agile enterprise was to build a very rudimentary micro-blogging platform, similar to Twitter.
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Is he a closet indexer, a crapshooter or an agile player trying to dope out the business cycle?
Agile transformation has to do with change, the being side of the equation.
In contrast, leaders who are culturally agile are able to respond to and perform well in varied and unfamiliar cultural contexts.
The authors report that the ability to leap will make the bio-inspired microrobot more agile and better able to avoid obstacles it encounters on the water's surface.
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In my article yesterday, I called Agile the best-kept management secret on the planet and Scrum a major management discovery, despite the ten perennial management objections to Agile.
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