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The API Is Broken

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As the prolific and popular SPaMCAST podcaster Tom Cagley proclaimed during his keynote at the 2017 Agile Leadership Camp, “Values aren’t really what matters; behavior matters.” Cagley, who has interviewed more than five hundred technology leaders on his podcast series, hit the nail squarely on the head. Culture is usually derived from organizational values.

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Dalton, J. (2019). The API Is Broken. In: Great Big Agile. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3_1

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