Ageling on Agile

Ageling on Agile

Modern Agile’s Make People Awesome — “What’s wrong with being ordinary?”

Why the need to be awesome?

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Sep 05, 2018
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Why the need to be awesome?

Introduction

I like the Modern Agile principle “Make People Awesome”. Others don’t. With this article I aim to give a viewpoint what could be behind the resentment against the word “Awesome”.

A case against the word “awesome”

Let’s start with a few generalizations. Generalizations apply to a lot of people, but obviously every ind…

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