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[ . . . ] Justice, a business process consultant who always wanted to be an inventor, uses the car as an example of what he calls 'agile management.' He says that Lockheed Martin has bought the car to dismantle and reassemble it to learn the management system that is staff-driven and controlled.
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Oog, agile business practices. We've been infected with them at my company. Before they arrived, we had our total time for a particular deliverable down to just under 2 days. Now that we're becoming 'agile', it's up to 2 weeks, and heading towards 2 months.
I've seen a lot of executive-driven 'work smarter' silliness ooze down over the working ranks in my not-inconsiderable years in corporate America; 'agile practices' takes the cake.