Enterprise Agile

It's great to see so many organizations beginning to embrace Agile and embark on their journey. I believe that Agile represents a return to do what is right for the business, instead of focusing on mitigating risk for IT. No matter what flavor of Agile a project team uses, the end result is much closer to what the business needs than previous methodologies such as waterfall, Rational and iterative.

That said it is important for organizations to think well beyond the Agile projects that they have in front of them by constructing an Enterprise Architecture and related technology roadmaps. Without a roadmap Agile processes can facilitate a cowboy environment you may end up with collection of technical capabilities that don't fit together. Facilitating this enterprise perspective while quickly delivering capability for the business is the true secret sauce of successful Agile implementations. 

When you ask 20/20 for an Agile coach, scrum master or an Agile development team you will also get this enterprise perspective. This approach will ensure that the delivered capability works within the enterprise and ironically will ultimately mitigate risk for IT.

Mark Van Driel - Founder and Managing Partner at 20/20 Solutions Group