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What does it take to manage an Agile project - let alone a globally distributed Agile project? Developers approach Agile processes with ease, yet many IT managers struggle with the transition. Each week, I read the wealth of experiences shared on industry online groups and blogs and discuss the challenges with Agile teams. It's clear that many companies have succeeded with Agile development and are now looking to expand Agile concepts to their management practices. This month's Agile Journal looks at the issues of planning, organization, facilitation, role definition, and general best practices for managing Agile development.
Collaboration and reuse lie at the heart of every Agile project. To deliver quality software, teams must rely on each others' knowledge and feedback. Of course, there's never time to start from scratch - refactoring and leveraging existing assets are mandatory parts of an effective process. It's also great to see reuse truly be a means to an end, rather than seeing companies just promote a "reuse initiative" as a general goal. What's most interesting to me, however, is how distributed Agile projects implement collaboration and reuse. In this issue, we'll hear some experiences from highly distributed onshore and offshore Agile projects and how they've succeeded.
Is there a relationship between Agile processes and SOA development? We think so. SOA projects can be the catalysts for teams to change their development processes and adopt Agile practices. And, Agile processes are particularly well-suited to SOA initiatives, emphasizing incremental delivery of business-oriented services. In this issue of the Agile Journal, we'll explore a number of different ways in which Agile processes and SOA initiatives can benefit each other.
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