The document discusses the characteristics of an agile work environment and compares them to a potentially less agile status quo. An agile approach emphasizes face-to-face, open communication among self-organizing collaborative teams; decisions are made as a group while ensuring accountability. Work is done in short cycles with frequent delivery and improvement, customer involvement, and transparency into progress.

1. Mostly written, not frequent
Top down, one man show
Personal responsibility
At the beginning & end
Takes more than 2 months
Takes more than 2 months
As a whole at the end
Detailed upfront
Bureaucratic
Sensational progress tracking
Status quo is the habit
NOT YET AGILE
Face to face, open, frequent
Collaborative, as a team
Commitment as a team
Frequently
At most in few weeks
At most in few weeks
Continuosly throughout the project
Ongoing
Self organizing & correcting
Measured and visible
Frequently improving things
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Communication level in your team
Decision making structure
Accountability level
Frequency of customer involvement
Speed of handling change requests
Working output delivery frequency
Testing process
Analysis process
Authentication policies
Progress transparency
Learnin & improvement culture