Agile 2 Academy Resources
Articles and Whitepapers
Case Study
Launching a Scientific Research Institute
What if your organization’s greatest untapped resource isn’t new technology or processes, but instead the collective intelligence of your people?
People who are highly engaged are enormously more productive and effective than people who are halfhearted about their work. But creating high engagement is possible!
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Everyone Needs to Be a Leader
But how do we do that?
A no-nonsense plan to truly upskill everyone’s leadership abilities — there is no more sure way to improve performance.
Agility Is Now the Most Important Leadership Trait
Leadership agility now transcends all other traits, because all other leadership traits must be agile in how they are performed. That is, agility must be woven through everything we do. Read to find out why.
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The University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, a global leader in infectious disease research, decided to launch a new institute focusing on the intersection between infectious diseases and cancer. They selected Agile 2 Academy to help them to develop their core organizational strategies. Why us? Because we had the clearest and most rational ideas about how to generate organizational agility.
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Are You Using Old or New Agile?
Agile has evolved a lot since in came onto the IT scene in the early 2000s. For those who make Agile work for them at scale, Agile as become more mature and embraces leadership, diverse ways of working, integrated product design, better use of data, and many other things. Are you using old or new Agile?
Does Your Culture Support What Agile 2 Needs?
Strategies often fail because organizations do not account for the behavioral norms that block the strategies. To achieve change, your strategies must include cultural change.
DevOps Ideas, Patterns, and Practices are Central to Agile 2
Agile and DevOps go together. Agile 2 explicitly states the need for early and continual integration, and for all stakeholders—business and tech—to have a basic understanding of both the product and how it is created.
Low-Code and Agile 2
Read about it in the Appian blog post!—find out why Agile 2 and low-code go so well together!
How Agile Has Evolved
This 45-page eBook explains how Agile has evolved—today’s Agile is not the Agile of 20 years ago
Organizations Have Subcultures
“They have been staggeringly good, not only in preparing so that they are able to talk to our scientists, but in helping to strategize and figure out what matters. They have helped us to get onto a sure footing and see a clear path ahead.
“And, by applying deep experience in organizational design and implementation, including psychology, appreciative inquiry and the agile2 strategic approach, they provide innovative, customized and functional insights and directions that are immensely valuable and unparalleled in my nearly 35 years of starting and running organizations.”
– Dr. Robert Breiman, Interim Director, Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Formerly Director of the Emory Global Health Institute