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We Must Do Agile (Practices)
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We Must Be Agile (Mindset)
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- “We need a standard way to do Agile.”
- “If you’re not doing [practice], you’re not Agile!”
- “We need something specific, not philosophy.”
- “If you’re obsessing on a checklist of processes, you’re missing the point of Agile.”
- “Those stupid Agile ‘purists’ make things too hard.”
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- “How can you see the practices and the mindset supporting each other?”
- “How can we learn to get the outcomes/benefits of Agile along the way together?”
- (Invite dialogue of their rationale: What is driving their emphasis of a particular practice/principle?)
- “What assumptions are we making about people that may help us choose to emphasize practices or principles? How can you test those assumptions?”
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- (People begin describing how specific practices reinforce a principle.)
- “What practices help us with the problem we are trying to solve?
- “Some of these practices actually work together as part of a whole approach.”
- (Discussion of what people in the organization really expect from Agile)
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History
First identified at Agile Coachcamp2016, published here 2017.
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Agile Brambles 
What other Thorns (sound-bites) do you hear when a group is stuck in a circular debate of “We Must Do Agile vs. We Must Be Agile?”
How have you intervened? What happened?
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