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What is Understood by "VALUE" in Agility?

From Projects to Value

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Carlos Garcia
Mar 19, 2025
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👋 Hey, Carlos here! Welcome to “The Holistic Leader”, your weekly source of simple and honest leadership, Agile, Management & team insights.

As I reflect on my early career as a PM, I remember the immense pressure to keep the "iron triangle" in check.

The goal back then was simple: deliver a project within scope, by a set deadline, and under budget.

If I nailed that, I thought I had done my job well.

But over time, something didn’t sit right. Even when projects were delivered on time, under budget, and with extra features, they sometimes went unused.

Why?

Because they didn’t solve the real problems customers faced.

That realization shifted my focus from managing projects to managing products that people actually needed.

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