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Crossing the Agile Chasm

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Adopting a new concept often proves harder than it seems at first. Adopting Agile is definitely a case in point. Although Agile is still relatively new, having been formally defined by a meeting of seventeen signatories in February 2001 in their “Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” it has gained significant adoption over the past decade.

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    See Kent Beck, et al. "Manifesto for Agile Software Development," (2001), http://agilemanifesto.org .

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    Actuation Consulting and Enterprise Agility, "The Study of Product Team Performance, 2012," http://www.actuationconsultingllc.com/whitepaper_request.php .

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    Forrester-Dr. Dobb’s Global Developer Technographics Survey, Q3 2009.

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    Joe M. Bohlen and George M. Beal, “The Diffusion Process”, Special Report No. 18, Agriculture Extension Service, Iowa State College, May 1957, 1:56–77.

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    Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm (New York: Harper Business Essentials, 1991).

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Moreira, M.E. (2013). Crossing the Agile Chasm. In: Being Agile. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5840-7_2

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