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Agile known unknowns - Do's and Don'ts

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(Credit:  https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/86l0s2/someone_figured_out_the_reality/ ) One of the strangest but nicest things I've ever heard a client say was "We're interested in doing things in a more Agile way and you embody it". Nice because everybody likes a compliment. Strange because I'd never considered how I work as "Agile" in the project methodology sense. But we were both thinking of the same thing - getting good results at pace. Agile as a project methodology has been around for yonks and is now the approved way of delivering Salesforce and IT projects in general. But projects still fail (a lot) or are late or simply deliver product clients don't use. Large projects, particularly in the IT sector, often go bad says Gallup . And from experience I'd agree a lot of IT projects are needlessly painful. There are 2 interesting points that the Gallup report surfaces: Process isn't necessarily key. But people ar...