Understanding Agile Management

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Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Darrell Rigby of Bain and Jeff Sutherland of Scrum explain the rise of lean, iterative management tactics, and how to implement them yourself.

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0:32.5	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:34.3	Today I'm talking with Darrell Rigby and Jeff Sutherland.
0:37.5	Darrell is a partner at Bain and company
0:39.2	and head of the firm's global innovation
0:40.9	and retail practices, and he's joining me here in the studio today.
0:44.4	Darryl thank you so much for coming in.
0:45.9	Thank you Sarah it's great to be with you.
0:48.7	And Jeff Sutherland is co-creator of the Scrum Form of Agile Innovation and the CEO of Scrum Inc which is a
0:54.8	consulting and training firm. Jeff thank you so much for talking with us today.
0:58.1	Thanks for inviting me. I look forward to the conversation.
1:01.1	Darryl and Jeff are the co-authors with Hirotaka Taka Yucci of Harvard Business School of
1:06.2	the new article Embracing Agile, how to master the process that's transforming management. So without further I do let's talk a little bit about
1:15.3	agile and what it is. In the article you write some executives seem to associate
1:19.7	Agile with anarchy, everybody doing what he or she wants to, whereas others seem to take it to me
1:25.0	doing what I say only faster.
1:27.2	But in fact, as you write, Agil's neither.
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