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Cultures Where Agile Emerges

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Summary

Agile practices emerge in a collaborative environment. As the leader on several projects, Pollyanna used collaboration processes to create a culture that fostered the emergence of iterative development, test first, evolving functional specs, pair programming, minimal documentation, and customer involvement at every step of the way. Pollyanna presents the steps leaders for emerging agile methods.

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Pollyanna developed the models for Collaboration and Collaborative Leadership through 35 years inside and consulting with corporations and organizations. She was primarily responsible for leading the development of the Swiss electronic stock exchange. She speaks and writes on collaborative leadership and business ethics and is currently working on a book focusing on collaborative leadership.

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Sep 08, 2009

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