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Agile is now mainstream.  Gone are the days of questioning whether agile would work for me or not.  However, agility has not become common despite the plethora of knowledge base available.  The reason is the lack of an Agile Mindset in the first place without which we can only pretend to be agile and just keep doing the opposite.

I will try to share my learning in building such mindset without much dogma as possible as I can.  Lets Roll!

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