It’s the Year 2009, and the idea of Agile Software Development or variations such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, or pre-cursors such as Rapid Application Development have been around for two decades or more.
Why is it that many businesses are still developing or buying software systems such as enterprise content management, portals, search engines, intranet, collaboration spaces, etc., that take months to years to develop and deploy?
Isn’t there a better way?
Of course there is - and it is time for the inwardly-focused enterprise developers and integrators to take a lesson from the commercial software developers who have seen radically improved time-to-market, Return on Investment (cash does not flow until product ships) and greater customer satisfaction.
Listen to the podcast interview (below) between Robert Dempsey, CEO of Atlantic Dominion Solutions and Dan Keldsen, Co-founder and Principal of Information Architected discussing the rise of Agile and Scrum from an active practitioner, developer and trainer perspective.
If you have experience (good or bad) with Agile methods of any kind - what have you seen? Cultural problems in implementing the change? Customers who can’t keep up with the rate of change? Can’t find the time to deposit all of the revenue coming in because you’re too busy improving the code?
See/hear the full episode at:
http://www.informationarchitected.com/blog/iam-talking-its-2009-are-you-agile/