On Friday, I interviewed Ryan Martens, CTO & founder of Rally Software, about agile development. (Rally offers Agile lifecycle managment products and is a key player in the online Agile development community.)
Agile has its roots in the Toyota way and lean manufacturing. But only now is it starting to hit mainstream knowledge management process–like software development. Wikipedia calls it “Agile Software Development.”
Certainly, moving to Agile isn’t pain free–there is risk involved–but companies that take the risk consistently report strong results, including those listed on the banner above. (Expect it to be flavor of the week if you apply it like the flavor of the week.)
