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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of those companies had that agility from the outset and maintained it while they grow (Google, Facebook, Spotify, Amazon) while others at some point in time went through some kind of change or transformation to achieve or recover such degree of agility (Microsoft, LinkedIn, Netflix and HP LaserJet Firmware).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nTheir pursuit of Agility has been driven both bottom-up and from the top, with a lot of autonomy as well as responsibility for the teams. The balance between the bottom-up and the top drive vary from company to company. People, their autonomy, their mastery, their involvement, and team-work have been fundamental ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nNone of these companies even remotely refers to, uses practices from, or takes inspiration from any one of the commercial scaled agile frameworks (e.g. SAFe, DaD, or even LeSS).
None of these companies adhere to just one of the official Agile framework, not by the book, not by imitation, nor in a prescriptive or uniform and standard way for all the teams with a cookie-cutter or cut-and-paste approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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All these companies have grown their own ways of working internally, in a continuous process of experimentation-learning-adaptation-evolution, in order to suit their specific circumstances and needs (no scaling by imitation, no copycats).
All these companies\u2019 ways of woking take inspiration or are congruent with many of the Lean and Agile principles, values and mindset. With a few exceptions for two of them on sustainable pace, psychological safety, and daily collaboration with the business.
In their pursuit of agility, all these companies have a strong focus on technical excellence with a strong engineering culture. All of them consider the company culture as an important ingredient of their agility.
All these companies\u2019 have some technical practices at scale that have their roots in Agile and specifically in Extreme Programming (e.g. Trunk Based Development, Continuous Integration, Test Automation, Continuous Delivery).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSome of these companies (Microsoft, Spotify, HP LaserJet Firmware) explicitly define themselves as Agile (as in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development). None of these companies talks about scaling Agile (as in any of the Scaled Agile frameworks).
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