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Agile Leadership
You might call the Agile Project Leadership Network the “anti-organization” organization. When the nonprofit group was born nearly two years ago, its dozen or so founders didn’t want to create a huge, self-organizing central body. And they certainly didn’t want to launch yet another manifesto into the world of project management.
There was some reluctance involved in birthing the Agile Project Leadership Network, says one of its founders, Alistair Cockburn, president of Salt Lake City-based Humans and Technology and a co-author of the Agile Software Development Manifesto.
“We found there was a lot of interest in applying Agile principles in a larger context and especially in management circles, and we wanted to have a place where people could get together to talk about that and share ideas. But we didn’t want a big bureaucracy getting in the way. The difficult part for us was determining how we were going to do interesting things without one,” Cockburn says.
What has resulted from that initial interest is a fluid organization that offers memberships but operates without paid staff or a headquarters other than its website (www.apln.org). Ideas are exchanged primarily through informal local chapter meetings, an online discussion forum, and annual APLN summits and conferences typically held in conjunction with the Agile Development Conference.
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