Humble: Agile hits a brick wall in large, complex organizations
Jez Humble · a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:12
Jez Humble, co-author of 'Accelerate', explains why traditional Agile frameworks struggle in enterprise environments without continuous deployment practices.
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“If you're working in a large, complex organization, Agile's going to hit a brick wall, because unlike the things we were building in the sixties, product development means that things are changing and evolving all the time.”
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