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Lean and Agile in a Nutshell

Create Value, Eliminate Waste, and Adapt to Change

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In Chap. 1, we started to develop the concept of “management” and “leadership” that you can read on the cover of this book. Now is the time to go into the “Agile” part of it.

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    As seen by myself.

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Medinilla, Á. (2012). Lean and Agile in a Nutshell. In: Agile Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28909-5_2

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