"To err is human, to err faster is Agile."
Just got a request to take an Agile Survey from our friends at market analyst firm voke, inc:
We are in the process of conducting a survey on Agile. We will use the data from this survey to create a voke Market Snapshot on Agile, the report will be vendor neutral. I know your customers have very strong opinions about Agile and welcome the participation of as many as possible.
So - here is that survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LNCVQ6H
I took the survey myself and it made me rethink exactly what Agile meant to me - hence the quote at the top. Funny, this comes up almost exactly a year after this blogger commented on Mark Masterson's killer video about Cloud enabling you to fail faster.
Like many terms in the tech world, "Cloud" and "Agile" often get misappropriated for somebody's marketing agenda. But both terms have the intrinsic value of mobility that the business side of the enterprise craves from IT: smaller incremental efforts and costs, and deferred larger decisions, so they aren't going away anytime soon.
I'm quite curious about seeing the results and comments our readers might add to the mix of this survey and the resulting report. ITKO customers generally tend toward the leading edge of what we'd call Enterprise Agile, but we will wager only 50% of them actually refer to their own efforts by the term "Agile." Let's find out!
Great post. Not the only reason
Agile may fail, I think, but certainly one of the key challenges for the
Agile community to fess up to and face up to.
I wrote about some other challenges in my recent "State of Agile" post here http://www.agileexams.com/
Posted by: William Fuhmey | October 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM