Agile Adoption Goals for 2008 |
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| Sunday, 09 December 2007 12:42 |
 It is great
to end 2007 by looking back at what the Agile community has achieved. Organizations
have made tremendous strides, particularly in the areas of large, distributed Agile
projects and increased customer satisfaction. Competing Agile conferences, new
commercial and open source Agile tools, and a growing number of global Agile
consultancies all attest to the validity and benefits of Agile approaches. But enterprise-wide
Agile initiatives are still few and far between. Some of the issues on the
table for Agile teams are the same issues that have existed for software
developers for the past decade! Agility in software development emphasizes
small, frequent steps and continuous improvement; we can approach Agile
adoption in the same way. Agile approaches stress individuals and interactions,
so my suggestion for the coming year is to hone in on four core goals -- skill
development, incremental practice adoption, leverage of existing assets, and
the ever-present demand for better project visibility -- and see how far
they'll take us towards enterprise Agile adoption.It is great
to end 2007 by looking back at what the Agile community has achieved. Organizations
have made tremendous strides, particularly in the areas of large, distributed Agile
projects and increased customer satisfaction. Competing Agile conferences, new
commercial and open source Agile tools, and a growing number of global Agile
consultancies all attest to the validity and benefits of Agile approaches. But enterprise-wide
Agile initiatives are still few and far between. Some of the issues on the
table for Agile teams are the same issues that have existed for software
developers for the past decade! Agility in software development emphasizes
small, frequent steps and continuous improvement; we can approach Agile
adoption in the same way. Agile approaches stress individuals and interactions,
so my suggestion for the coming year is to hone in on four core goals -- skill
development, incremental practice adoption, leverage of existing assets, and
the ever-present demand for better project visibility -- and see how far
they'll take us towards enterprise Agile adoption.Read more >>
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