Since the Agile Manifesto of 2001, Agile software development has been adopted in thousands of firms around the world.
FORBES: How Manufacturing Can Learn From Software To Become Agile
The focus has shifted from Agile software development to Agile software delivery.
Work will need to be coordinated in short cycles by dynamic linking, building on the recent experience of Agile software development in the innovation group.
FORBES: Bold Innovation In A Conventional Setting: Crowdsourcing at SWIFT
Agile software development comprises a set of management practices and values based on customer focus achieved through iterative and incremental development, and where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers.
FORBES: How Manufacturing Can Learn From Software To Become Agile
What emerged was Agile test-driven software development, where work is done in an iterative fashion and fully integrated on a continuing basis.
FORBES: A New Objection To Agile: Software Can't Be Managed!
The largest sector-wide implementation of Agile has been in software development.
FORBES: How Manufacturing Can Learn From Software To Become Agile
Agile represents a management breakthrough that has enabled software development teams to systematically achieve both disciplined execution and continuous innovation, something that was impossible to accomplish with 20th Century hierarchical bureaucracy.
FORBES: How Manufacturing Can Learn From Software To Become Agile
The lack of a formal schema, which typically has to be designed before any code is written, means that schemaless databases are a better fit for current software development practices, such as agile development.
Thus, if Scrum and Agile are focused on the traditional business goal of making money for shareholders, rather than delighting the customer, then there is a risk that the huge gains in productivity that Scrum and Agile generate will be used to downsize the software development staff, thereby killing the very creativity and innovation that are responsible for the gains.
FORBES: Major Management Insights From The Scrum Global Gathering
The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.
应用推荐