agile Teams: what we believe in

  • #PeopleFirstCulture, building trust first, and actively cultivating inclusion and equity

  • Diverse, empowered teams of people (not "resources"!) deliver the most innovative and valuable R & D (research and development) for intelligent industrial software systems

  • Being agile ("little-a"), not doing Agile ("big-A") - collaborating, inspecting, adapting, responding to change, and working sustainably

  • Blending agility and discipline (including architecture and DevOps) to deliver good R&D results

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" [A. Einstein]

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Our focus is on little-a agile (being agile, not doing Agile) and building big-t Teams, because inclusive team culture and valuable business results matter more than checking standard process boxes.

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