So that’s what attracts people, I think, to it. They want it in their organization’s culture. They want what they have experienced on their teams, on their agile teams: more harmony, more productivity or satisfaction, more customer value, and all that kind of stuff. I guess, what I’ll say about it is that it’s an aspiration because people want it. Michael: I think you’re definitely pointing in the right direction. Is that the reason that maybe enterprise agility is only an aspiration for many people, and not something they can call an accomplishment? That maybe the phrase is so loose or so misunderstood that, it’s like the difficulty in defining ‘done’ sometimes, that you get so many versions of it that it’s hard to know when you’ve reached it? In your abstract you say, “Enterprise agility is both a hugely popular aspiration and a widely misunderstood buzzword.” That comes up a lot in agile, with the ability to “do agile” in so many different ways. Your session, again, on Monday, July 28, is titled “ What would it mean to Coach an Agile Enterprise?” I noticed that the first sentence presents a huge challenge in enterprise level software development today. Michael: Thank you for hosting this, Noel. It had a really interesting sounding session, and I just wanted to learn a little bit more about that session and some of the topics that may come up during it. Michael’s going to be speaking at the Agile 2014 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Monday, July 28.

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