{"id":8071763,"date":"2021-04-30T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-agilealliance.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=aa_book&#038;p=8071763"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:52:55","slug":"agile-2-the-next-iteration-of-agile","status":"publish","type":"aa_book","link":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/resources\/books\/agile-2-the-next-iteration-of-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agile is broken.<\/p>\n<p>Most Agile transformations struggle. According to an Allied Market Research study, \u201c63% of respondents stated the failure of Agile implementation in their organizations.\u201d The problems with Agile start at the top of most organizations with executive leadership not getting what Agile is or even knowing the difference between success and failure in Agile.<\/p>\n<p>Agile transformation is a journey, and most of that journey consists of people learning and trying new approaches in their own work. An Agile organization can make use of coaches and training to improve its chances of success. But even then, failure remains because many Agile ideas are oversimplifications or interpreted in an extreme way, and many elements essential for success are missing. Coupled with other ideas that have been dogmatically forced on teams, such as \u201cAgile team rooms\u201d, and \u201can overall inertia and resistance to change in the Agile community,\u201d the Agile movement is ripe for change since its birth twenty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgile 2\u201d represents the work of fifteen experienced Agile experts, distilled into Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile by seven members of the team. Agile 2 values these pairs of attributes when properly balanced: thoughtfulness and prescription; outcomes and outputs, individuals and teams; business and technical understanding; individual empowerment and good leadership; adaptability and planning. 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