Although most people need no clarification on the two terms – silos and cross-functional teams – we’ll start with some explaining just to make sure we’re on the same page.
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Too often people believe in magic. And, considering the amount and size of unreal expectations, the land of magic is called projects. It’s when we realize that magic doesn’t exist that we turn to terms like “over budget”, “behind schedule” or “unsuitable methodology”. You know what they say, a tool is just as good as the people using it? Let talk about tools, also known as methodologies! Especially about our approach when it comes to learning to use a new one.
Obviously, this is highly debatable. And if you ask a bunch of people you’ll probably get a lot more reasons for which Agile implementation fail. And yes, it’s Agile implementations that fail. Not Agile!
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