Drawn by the promise of reduced time to market, increased innovation, better ROI, and happier customers, large and small companies are turning to agile processes to manage product and system development efforts.

Enterprise agility — a company's ability to respond to change in the marketplace or in the needs of its customers — is served by the following set of practices:

• short development cycles, typically 2-4 weeks
• frequent delivery of business value
• collaboration between business experts and developers
• emphasis on face-face communication
• cross-functional, self-organizing teams

Taken together and applied at the project level, these practices provide the traction and visibility required to protect your IT investment. Ironically, these same practices often create disruptions in organizational structures and cultures oriented towards a traditional approach to project delivery. Adopting agile across a enterprise requires change at all levels of the company.

Enterprise Agile Group, LLC is a cooperative parnership of experienced consultants committed to teaching and cultivating the tools of transformational change that will maximize the business impact of your agile adoption.