Agile Transition Path Whitepaper

How do you transition your company to something that you would want to call 'agile'?  Spoiler: there isn't a way, at least not a single one.  I wrote this whitepaper for my employer Mirabeau, for managers and directors to consider:
  • Whether you need to improve your agility
  • How that works
  • How to manage/govern/control this
  • The associated costs, risks, resources and re-organisation
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