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Agile performance improvement blends the best of agile software development methods with the best of (HPT). The two systems share an ambition to remedy the most profound failures of popular methods.
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Jim McCarthy and Michele McCarthy, Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002).
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Also known as human performance improvement.
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Robert F. Mager, Preparing Instructional Objectives, 2nd ed. (Belmont, CA: Fearon, 1975).
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An agilist is one who practices the techniques of agile software development. There is no equivalent pithy term to describe the practitioner of HPT.
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Thomas F. Gilbert, Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance, Tribute Edition (New York: Pfeiffer, 1995).
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Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linus and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Beijing: O’Reilly, 1999).
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Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, Third Edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).
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Jim McCarthy and Michele McCarthy, Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision (New York, NY: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002).
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VersionOne, 2013 State of Agile Survey, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2015, from http://www.versionone.com/pdf/2013-state-of-agile-survey.pdf.
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In his concurring opinion of Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), US Supreme Court Justice Stewart famously declined to define parameters for “obscenity” in filmmaking. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/378/184.
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The Scrum Guide is the authoritative document for the rules of Scrum. See Chapter 4.
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Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2015, from http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html.
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Winter, B. (2015). Agile and Human Performance Technology. In: Agile Performance Improvement. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0892-2_1
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