From the course: Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

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- I spent most of my career in IT. When I started, things were simpler. You could learn a technology and count on it for years. My brilliant boss managed the organization's only computer, a mainframe. He'd figure out what to do, for example, in planning for disaster recovery, and we'd do it. Today's organizations use many constantly changing technologies, so you must reinvent yourself at intervals measured in months, not years. This flux has made organizations complex systems that one individual cannot understand. Even if someone could somehow do it in one moment, things would change materially in the next, rendering their understanding obsolete. Your role as an individual contributor in agile continual improvement is vital because you're close to the work, you have subject matter expertise in it, and are best positioned to improve it. One vital role you have as an individual contributor is improving your own work. One helpful way of doing this is with plate management with circles of…

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