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# Senex Rex

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- [Articles](https://senexrex.com/blog/) - Blog posts related to Senex Rex papers and presentations.
- [Measure Progress with Leading Indicators](https://senexrex.com/pattern-measure-progress/) - Plans can't guarantee success in chaotic economies ... therefore measure progress with well-chosen, evolving leading indicators.
- [Strategy Scrum Teams](https://senexrex.com/strategy-scrum/) - Management teams can use Strategy Scrum to manage themselves and more effectively finish important work.
- [Scrum](https://senexrex.com/scrum/) - Creative teams take too long ... therefore, have them deliver increments rhythmically, using Scrum.
- [Leading Indicators to Assess Agile Portfolio Health](https://senexrex.com/leading-indicators-to-assess-agile-portfolio-health/) - In this podcast, Dr. Dan Greening is back to follow up in the earlier podcast interview about Agile Base Patterns. This time, Dan and Dave Prior discuss leading indicators you can study to assess Agile Portfolio Health. During the podcast, they dig in to metrics that can be used to assess Lead Time, Abandoned Work and Fitness Functions. Podcast
- [Marketing Scrum Experimentation](https://senexrex.com/marketing-scrum/) - Agile methods can organize marketing efforts: asset production, brand development, strategic brand alignment. However, it may not be a perfect fit.
- [Deliver Incremental Value in Rhythmic Timeboxes](https://senexrex.com/timeboxed-increments/) - Establish a steady rhythm of value delivery and improvement by working in fixed time increments, called timeboxes. Deliver at least one increment of customer value per timebox.
- [Align to a Driving Purpose](https://senexrex.com/driving-purpose/) - Goals can motivate, guide, and align our efforts. We may marshal effort and resources to overcome challenges. Weak goals reduce performance and unrelated goals lack synergy to support a greater purpose. ... therefore, promote commitment to challenging, motivating, and aligning goals.
- [](https://senexrex.com/pattern-agility/) - We invite disaster when we fail to test assumptions ... Therefore, decompose a large undertaking into a series of short, inexpensive, comprehensive experiments. After each experiment, adapt.
- [Top-Down Agile Beats Bottom-Up](https://senexrex.com/top-down-agile/) - Leaders who publicly demonstrate agility and promote it top-down drive their organizations to sustain agile practices and succeed.
- [Develop Agile Managers, or Agile Dies](https://senexrex.com/agile-managers/) - To sustain rapid adaptation and innovation, we need good agile managers. But management talent is rare, and agile management talent even rarer.
- [Business Agility: Why & How](https://senexrex.com/business-agility/) - Business agility helps organizations adapt rapidly to unexpected changes. Agile businesses have survived market, supply chain, and regulatory changes, while rigid businesses have gone bankrupt. If you want to know why your business should be agile, and how to get there, you’ve come to the right place.
- [How to Read and Write Pattern Languages](https://senexrex.com/pattern-languages/) - Pattern languages can help us understand complex systems. Read how pattern languages work, and how Senex Rex is defining agility with the Agile Canon.
- [Poverty Thinking and Corporate Transformation](https://senexrex.com/poverty-thinking/) - Success arises when we transform significantly, not just do marginally better.
- [Agile Capitalization Workshop](https://senexrex.com/agile-capitalization-workshop/) - The two-day Agile Capitalization Workshop includes a one-day seminar followed by a one-day company-specific workshop. The seminar covers GAAP or IFRS principles (depending on country), capitalization benefits, applicable regulations, and real-world examples of capitalizing software developed using agile practices. Learn from the people that pioneered defensible agile capitalization practices in a $10B publicly traded company.
- [Q&A: How can I transform my corporation to agile?](https://senexrex.com/qa-corporate-transformation/) - Questions and answers regarding the move to Agile for corporations.
- [Uniform Point Estimates: Violation?](https://senexrex.com/5-points/) - To manage capacity, forecast delivery dates and motivate architectural thinking, we often ask development teams to estimate proposed work.
- [The First of Five Challenges to Large Organizations that Force Agility](https://senexrex.com/five-challenges-that-force-agility/) - As companies grow, agility can erode When we're in startups, we can generate features quickly, have 1 week turnarounds, and can deliver something of value.
- [Agile Capitalization Video: Greening and Rudd](https://senexrex.com/agile-capitalization-video-with-dan-greening-and-john-rudd-2/) - Watch this 15-minute breakdown of Dan Greening's experience doing Enterprise roll-outs of Agile and in dealing with portfolio management of Agile.
- [Converting from Waterfall to Scrum - The First 30 Days](https://senexrex.com/converting-from-waterfall-to-scrum-the-first-30-days/) - Working with a diversified and international company, Senex Rex trained 80 Product Owners, ScrumMasters and Team Members in their new roles using Scrum.
- [How We Charge Our Clients](https://senexrex.com/how-we-charge-our-clients/) - Senex Rex charges by the day, not the hour. This allows us to focus, to think, to innovate.
- [Pair-Author Backlog Items for Faster, Better Results](https://senexrex.com/pair-author-pbis/) - Product Backlog Item (PBI) writing in Scrum is best done by pairing a Product Owner with an architect or team member.
- [Four-part User Stories: Functionality that Matters](https://senexrex.com/four-part-user-stories/) - Four-part user stories improve communication between Product Owner and Development Team. They include context about the user and the sponsor of the work.
- [Daily Mantra: Contribute 10× the Value You Capture](https://senexrex.com/daily-mantra-contribute-10x-value-capture/) - I have a little mantra I say to myself whenever I walk in the door of an employer. "How will I gain at least 10 times my salary for my organization today?"
- [Root Cause Mapping Party](https://senexrex.com/cause-mapping/) - Our biases may lead to a damaging “fix" to problems … therefore, gather diverse parties using cause mapping, working backwards from the problem.
- [Embrace Collective Responsibility](https://senexrex.com/pattern-collective-responsibility/) - We delay resolution by avoiding responsibility for failure … therefore, help people embrace collective responsibility, to resolve problems effectively.
- [Experiment to improve](https://senexrex.com/pattern-experiment/) - To innovate, organizations must Proactive Experiment to Improve. With this pattern, we learn and adapt, improving our chances for success.
- [Chunk Before Choosing](https://senexrex.com/chunk/) - Faced with too many options, we choose badly … Therefore, partition choices into 5 to 9 comparable chunks and choose from the chunks.
- [Limit Work in Progress](https://senexrex.com/pattern-work-in-progress/) - We produce value too slowly, and the more we plan the worse it gets ... therefore, limit work in progress to improve value flow.
- [Fix Systemic Problems](https://senexrex.com/pattern-systemic-problems/) - Context: When unimpeded by outside forces, we rapidly adapt to circumstances and succeed, but this perfect independence rarely exists. Problem: External factors limit our flow ... We don't have the knowledge, specialty resources, elasticity or authorization to do everything ourselves, but relying on others puts us at risk. Forces When we operate in a system with
- [Is Agile a Subset of Lean Manufacturing?](https://senexrex.com/lean-manufacturing/) - Agile and Lean Manufacturing share much. But Agile and Scrum innovate, while Lean Manufacturing optimizes. Know more to avoid disaster.
- [Product Owner](https://senexrex.com/pattern-product-owner/) - Stakeholder competition distracts developers, delays profitable work, and creates politics ... therefore, appoint a Product Owner for each Developer Team.
- [Andy Warhol explains Incremental and Iterative Development](https://senexrex.com/incremental-vs-iterative-development/) - Incremental development completes system components in a sequence, finishing each component completely before moving on to the next.
- [Scrum Self-Similarity: Creating Organizational Fractals](https://senexrex.com/scrum-fractals/) - We use a unique Enterprise Scrum process at Citrix Online to manage a large, multiproduct engineering department.
- [Personal 2009 Retro/2010 Planning](https://senexrex.com/personal-2009-retro2010-planning/) - My yearly retrospective mind map summarizes what went well and badly in 2009, and what I plan to do in 2010.
- [Pushing Agility Upstream](https://senexrex.com/pushing-agility-upstream/) - My buds and I have pushed agile upstream twice recently, and it's more fun than you might think.
- [Enterprise Scrum: Scrum Gathering](https://senexrex.com/enterprise-scrum-2010-us-scrum-gathering/) - Enterprise Scrum can create very healthy product lines and companies. In a sense, Enterprise Scrum turns enterprises into internal venture capital funders.
- [The Demise of NUMMI](https://senexrex.com/the-demise-of-nummi/) - This is not a story of failing to change; it is a story of changing too slowly. GM could not replicate the learning it obtained from NUMMI fast enough.
- [2010 Resolutions: Q1 Retrospective](https://senexrex.com/2010-resolutions-q1-review/) - Perform a quarterly personal retrospective on your 2010 resolutions to accelerate achievement, using techniques from agile, lean and GTD methods.
- [Facilities Planning for Agile Software Development](https://senexrex.com/facilities-planning/) - I've helped shape the configuration of software engineering facilities lately, and reviewed literature around this area seeking to maximize productivity.
- [Agile 2010: Enterprise Scrum](https://senexrex.com/agile-2010-enterprise-scrum/) - I presented our work on Enterprise Scrum at Agile 2010 this year.
- [Agile 2010 Impressions](https://senexrex.com/agile-2010-impressions/) - My thoughts on portfolio management, value and product management and Agile engineering processes.
- [Cult of Zero: Free Your Creative Soul](https://senexrex.com/cult-of-zero/) - A “Cult of Zero” is developing worldwide. I talk about how you can get your inbox to zero, and keep it there.
- [Meeting Scrum: Part 1, Make Information Flow](https://senexrex.com/meeting-scrum-1/) - Concerned citizens might warn you not to stand to close: I rope nearby bystanders into the crime I'm currently committing.
- [Learning Science and Agile Training](https://senexrex.com/learning-science-and-agile-training/) - New cognitive psychology results can help us provide better training
- [Review: The World is Not Small for Everyone](https://senexrex.com/review-the-world-is-not-small-for-everyone/) - Many decades ago, my small-world assumptions were incredibly optimistic.
- [Quality is Not Negotiable? A Contrarian View](https://senexrex.com/quality-is-not-negotiable/) - I argue that making quality non-negotiable lets engineers off the hook for understanding internal quality. Quality is always negotiable.
- [Is Hiring More the Right Answer?](https://senexrex.com/hiring-more/) - In my last company, I used to hear people say “We need more people to handle this workload.”
- [Review: Liz Keogh, Learning and Perverse Incentives](https://senexrex.com/perverse-incentives/) - This 50 minute talk discusses perverse incentives: situations where incentivizing individual behavior causes an organization to become dysfunctional.
- [Agile Portfolio Management Helps Retain Agility?](https://senexrex.com/scrum-coaching-retreat-2011/) - Agile methods create conflict. How can we equip a company with the cultural and process tools to sustain agility?
- [Agile Abandonment 2: Root Causes](https://senexrex.com/agile-abandonment-2/) - Agile Abandonment Syndrome is a phenomenon where a company stops improving, its agile behaviors degrade, and ultimately loses market share or productivity.
- [Bulk Estimation](https://senexrex.com/bulk-estimation/) - Good estimates help the team in at least 2 ways, which are described in this article.
- [Enterprise Scrum Thinking: Part 1 of 3](https://senexrex.com/enterprise-scrum-thinking-part-1-of-3/) - In the first of 3 podcasts, I discuss how to spread agile approaches beyond individual teams to the enterprise level.
- [Enterprise Scrum Thinking: Part 2 of 3](https://senexrex.com/enterprise-scrum-thinking-part-2-of-3/) - In the second part of three, I discuss the experimental mindset of an Agile-run project and how a Sprint is like a science experiment on production.
- [Enterprise Scrum Thinking: Part 3 of 3](https://senexrex.com/enterprise-scrum-thinking-part-3-of-3/) - Dan Greening explores the challenges of scaling Agile and Scrum concepts beyond the team level to project portfolios with executive involvement.
- [Can You Combine Waterfall and Agile?](https://senexrex.com/combine-waterfall-and-agile/) - Agile methods are a form of production science. Waterfall's long production cycles make it impossible to do this feasibly.
- [Should we work over 40 hours per week?](https://senexrex.com/40-hours-per-week/) - Game development replicates what others have shown for different industries, including Henry Ford about 100 years ago.
- [Promote Corporate Agility](https://senexrex.com/promote-corporate-agility/) - Large companies pursuing agility should ask this question: What do we want from agile, and how long do we want it?
- [Ad Hoc to Agile, Scrum and Scaling](https://senexrex.com/brief-development-cycles/) - Let's tackle the simple question: If we are producing new functionality in short cycles with an ad hoc process, are we agile?
- [Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?](https://senexrex.com/agile-capitalization-post/) - The basics of capitalization and expensing, and a financial framework for capitalizing agile projects that can be understood by all.
- [Reducing Release Duration Can Increase Agility - A Case Study](https://senexrex.com/reducing-release-duration-can-increase-agility-a-case-study/) - Shortening the time between releases can have the effect of increasing agility throughout an enterprise. In this article, the author recounts his experience at Citrix Online, and the positive ripple effects Agile techniques brought to the company.
- [Five Challenges to Large Organizations that Force Agility](https://senexrex.com/five-challenges-to-large-organizations-that-force-agility/) - Sometimes, looking at the bigger picture of workflow can highlight traditional bottlenecks. Duplicating code for the sake of expediency is one of the symptoms of eroding agility. Removing interdepartmental barriers will bring greater agility to an organization. In this first of 5 articles, Dan Greening makes a strong case for doing software modification tasks in
- [Velocity Variance: Should we seek consistent velocity?](https://senexrex.com/velocity-variance-should-we-seek-consistent-velocity/) - Rhythmic experimentation defines Scrum. Objective metrics—such as velocity variance and bug count—can help teams improve.
- [Agile Resolutions](https://senexrex.com/agile-resolutions/) - January is "New Years Resolution Month" for me. I plan what I'll improve in the rest of the year and how I'll do it. Roughly 88% of people who make New Years Resolutions fail [Lehrer 2009]. Twenty years ago, software projects had extremely high failure rates like this. The software industry started adopting “agile” management
- [Failure Rates](https://senexrex.com/failure-rates/) - "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." — Thomas J. Watson, IBM
- [Forecast Horizon: Does Your Team Communicate?](https://senexrex.com/forecast-horizon/) - By measuring and increasing Forecast Horizon, teams start operating better, eliminate dependencies much earlier and innovate more deeply.
- [The Goal Revisited](https://senexrex.com/the-goal-revisited/) - Re-read The Goal. You'll remember why you gave it to your friends, and you'll say to yourself, "The more things change, the more things stay the same."
- [Metrics, Trust and Communication](https://senexrex.com/metrics-trust-communication/) - You can dramatically improve trust by better aligning peoples' personal goals and values.
- [Smart and Lazy: Our best generals!](https://senexrex.com/smart-and-lazy/) - Kurt Gebhard Adolf Philipp Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord was a German general who categorized his army by their efficiency and cleverness.
- [Troy Magennis: 2013 Brickell Key Award Winner for KanbanSim](https://senexrex.com/troy-magennis-brickell-key/) - Troy Magennis was honored with the Brickell Key Award for his pioneering work in applying Monte Carlo simulation to forecasting delivery dates.
- [Talk: Risk-Reduction Metrics for Agile Organizations](https://senexrex.com/lkna14/) - Join us at the Lean Kanban North America 2014 conference. I will be speaking on the Managing Risk Track, May 7, 2014 from 2:20pm to 3:45pm.
- [Exponential Case Study: 3 Benefits from Agility](https://senexrex.com/exponential-case-study-1/) - We have quintupled our software development speed: now it takes us 4 days to complete user stories that used to take us 20 days.
- [Breaking into Quality: Prioritization as a Pitfall](https://senexrex.com/breaking-into-quality/) - Letting priority determine the order of development hampers efforts towards high-quality software.
- [Forecasting Defined](https://senexrex.com/forecasting-defined/) - This is the first article in a series that will introduce alternative ways to forecast date, cost and staff needs for software projects. It is not a religious journey; we plan to discuss estimation and forecasting like adults and understand how and when different techniques are appropriate given context. Stakeholders often ask engineers to estimate
- [Probabilistic Forecasting](https://senexrex.com/probabilistic-forecasting/) - In Part 1 of this series we discussed how probabilistic forecasting retains each estimate's uncertainty throughout the forecast. We looked at how weather forecaster’s present uncertainty in their predictions and how people seem comfortable that the future cannot be predicted perfectly and life still continues. We need this realization in IT forecasts! In Part 2
- [Forecasting without Historical Data](https://senexrex.com/forecasting-without-historical-data/) - We can forecast even when no historical data exists, if we use our experience and judgment. In Part 1 of our probabilistic forecasting series we looked at how uncertainty is presented; in Part 2 we looked at how uncertainty is calculated. Both of those parts presumed historical data was available. Although estimating without historical data
- [Agile Supports Software Success](https://senexrex.com/agilesupportssoftwaresuccess/) - Agile posits this trade off: that creative projects, such as software development, have such huge market, technical and budget uncertainty, that we should pay the high expense of repeated regression testing, packaging, deployment, and rework, to enable us to test our market and technical theories early and often, adapting our approach as we learn more.
- [Agile Job Search Techniques: 7 Steps to Responsibility](https://senexrex.com/agile-job-search-techniques-responsibility/) - If you want to get an awesome job with the least effort, jazz up your job search with agile self-management (Tweet). Agile methods will help you rapidly discover which of your skills match employer's true needs, market yourself for better results, target “channels” that have the best opportunities, hone in how much to ask for,
- [Agile Leadership Patterns:<br />The Agile Way of Doing](https://senexrex.com/agile-leadership-patterns-a2015/) - Dan Greening and Jeff Sutherland will be discussing Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing at the Agile 2015 Conference.
- [What is an Agile Methodology? How does it beat Waterfall?](https://senexrex.com/agile-methodology-defined/) - An #agile methodology helps leaders, organizations and teams rapidly adapt, beat slower competitors and win profitable markets. #agilecanon @senexrex
- [Are We Agile? Answer 6 Questions to Find Out](https://senexrex.com/are-we-agile/) - Are we agile? The highest performing, most resilient agile organizations and teams follow 6 agile patterns. Audit your business agility with this guide.
- [Religion vs Science in the Battle for Agile](https://senexrex.com/religion-vs-science-agile/) - While agile has zealots, it is not a religion. We explore agile science as a pattern language that converts economic chaos to profit.
- [Agile Cancer: Stop Whining and Cure It](https://senexrex.com/cure-agile-cancer/) - As we speak, agile leaders are killing their children. Dave Thomas proclaims that Agile is now for “people who don't do things”.
- [Agile Supply Chains Take the Lead](https://senexrex.com/supply-chain/) - Supply chains benefit from agile practices. Big online retailers are disrupting old-school distributors by offering agile supply chain services.
- [Agile Cancer: Does team-only agile cause developers to quit?](https://senexrex.com/agile-cancer-quit/) - Team-only agile transformations can cause smart developers to leave for agile companies. To cure agile cancer, we have to make managers agile.
- [Agile Leadership Patterns: 15 Minute Video](https://senexrex.com/agile-leadership-patterns-15m/) - Want to understand agile and its challenges fast? Check out this comprehensive 15 minute video. Dan Greening (Senex Rex) and Brent Barton (SolutionsIQ) explore the fundamental patterns of agility; how leadership inhibits and nurtures agility; why agile is hard to maintain; how to tell rapidly if a person, team or organization is agile; how to build agile
- [Agile Living](https://senexrex.com/agile-living/) - What I'm looking for in the dharma is not just a set of effective self-help techniques, stripped of philosophical and ethical context. I'm seeking to find a way of life. —Stephen Batchelor Two years ago, I paused writing about agile practices. Many factors contributed: I was considering a move to Asia, I was separating from my spouse of 28

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- [Enterprise Scrum: Scaling Scrum to the Executive Level](https://senexrex.com/enterprise-scrum-scaling-scrum-to-the-executive-level/) - At the CXO level in enterprises, decisions and resource planning becomes very difficult with bottom-up approaches: too much information obscures visibility.
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- [Kay Lynn Gabaldon](https://senexrex.com/kay-lynn-gabaldon/) - Kay Lynn Gabaldon is a strategic Talent Acquisition executive with broad and deep experience building and scaling organizations that produce quantifiable business results. Kay has held a variety of combined strategic and tactical roles in both technology and media domains supporting both domestic and international teams. Her work as a talent expert has extended beyond
- [Rob Myers](https://senexrex.com/rob-myers/) - Rob Myers has been in the software development industry since 1986, and in 1998 began using, teaching, and coaching Agile methods and practices. He has recently worked with a variety of large and small organizations, including Adobe, Skype, Visa, SalesForce, and Nationwide Insurance. Rob provides training and coaching to assist organizations during their Agile transitions,
- [Jeff McKenna](https://senexrex.com/jeff-mckenna/) - Jeff McKenna has been working in software development for over 45 years and has been actively participating in the creation and delivery of agile software development since 1987. He has been involved in all areas of software product development from system design, architecture, programming, testing, sales and marketing, and has held positions as mentor, product
- [John Horton](https://senexrex.com/john-horton/) - Case Study: Citrix Citrix more rapidly shipped GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar features to its customers on 5 platforms in multiple languages after Senex Rex consultant John Horton’s reorganization of its agile teams and processes. In two years, under his management, release frequency rose from 3 releases per year to more than 20 per year. CItrix more
- [Rapid Agile Forecasting](https://senexrex.com/old-courses/rapid-agile-forecasting/) - Estimating software projects is wasteful of staff time, sanity and rarely delivers any expected accuracy. Senex Rex Agile forecasting delivers results.
- [Release Duration and Enterprise Agility](https://senexrex.com/release-duration-and-enterprise-agility-2/) - Citrix Online's adoption of Scrum and enterprise agility drove release duration down 10-fold.
- [Software Moneyball](https://senexrex.com/software-moneyball/) - We have adapted the techniques of economists, geologists and actuaries to IT projects, and teach those techniques to our clients.

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- [Agile Base Patterns](https://senexrex.com/category/agility/agile-base-patterns/) - Agility is the degree that you can rapidly sense, adapt and succeed in changing situations and uncertainty. As technology and society advances ever more rapidly, our agility defines our success. And so, some of the best and most well-known companies, celebrity, politicians, and countries are extremely agile—they encounter problems and, unlike their slower-moving competitors, they very rapidly adapt and thrive. You can be agile. You can achieve celebrity, or just establish a great reputation in your field. You can lead a company, civic organization or society to success. But unless you want to learn the hard way, it’s probably useful to learn how others did it. This Agile Base Patterns category synthesizes and organizes fundamentals that are present in virtually all related frameworks. They have different names and operate in different fields—agile development, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Startup, DevOps, Design Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, Beyond Budgeting, Theory of Constraints. They are all practices that help you achieve higher agility, and they borrow from each other. You can use all of them simultaneously; they are largely complementary. For example, if you use Lean Startup to design products, you’ll get better results if you’re working with a development team that uses Scrum. I have studied all these agile techniques, in depth. I have taught large companies, small startups, teams, and individuals how to use them. They became more successful and more productive as a result. One executive complained she had not seen any improvement, so I made a study of release frequency over a seven year period: during the time that we weren’t using agile methods, the average time between releases increased from 6 months (when it was a startup) to 24 months (years after it was acquired). The company was on the road to failure. Upon adopting agile methods the time between releases dropped below 3 months. Customer satisfaction and market share all improved dramatically, to be better than at any previous time. The company was saved, and agile saved it. These Agile Base Patterns are a stand-alone pattern language. A pattern language organizes patterns to help you rapidly learn fundamentals first, then subtleties later. So, if you’d like to understand agility generally, read the Agility pattern, which is the first pattern in the Agility pattern language and the summary. The remaining patterns in this category (five as of this writing) form the second layer of the pattern language. Every pattern in this blog starts with an leaf icon and a pattern name, like this: Agile The pattern name is either something well-known already, or something easy to remember. The description starts with a Context and a Problem. If the context and the problem seem to match your context and problem, the pattern will likely help you. If the context and problem don’t match yours, maybe there’s another pattern that does. To understand pattern languages generally, see How to Read and Write Pattern Languages.
- [Advocacy](https://senexrex.com/category/advocacy/)
- [Business Agility](https://senexrex.com/category/agility/business-agility/)
- [Capitalization](https://senexrex.com/category/agility/capitalization/)

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