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Success in the modern, agile development era required Agile Managers and Leaders who truly understand what agile development means, how to create agile teams, and how agile teams collaborate, cooperate, and function in various situations, particularly in geographically and culturally diverse environments. In addition, they must understand the agile development cycle vs. the traditional development cycle [15]. Figure 3.1 illustrates the classical program/project development cycle.
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Crowder, J.A., Friess, S. (2015). Understanding the Agile Team. In: Agile Project Management: Managing for Success. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09018-4_3
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