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Continuing the "What is Agility?" series of posts ... we have looked at business agility and how it combines with the "people factor" from the agile manifesto to yield software development agility. So now that we know the meaning of agility, the next questions two I want to answer are "how do you do it?" and "what does it look like?" In this posting I will attempt to generally answer the "how do you do it?" question. This is basically a question of process. What is the overall process for "swiftly sensing and rapidly responding to change & uncertainty in close collaboration with stakeholders to create simple, sustainable structures with sufficient flexibility to dynamically adapt & evolve business processes, products & plans." This process is essentially an overall cycle. Something that you do, and then "rinse, lather & repeat." It is called the Agility Cycle. Let's look at a few different descriptions of this cycle (mostly from the realm of business agility) and then formulate our own for software development agility. Gartner describes the business agility cycle as:
John Boyd describes it as an OODA loop:
This is the phenomenon of emergent behavior from self-organization to achieve successful results and adapt to unpredictable circumstances. So any attempt we make to derive the software agility cycle from the business agility cycle needs to take into consideration this close collaboration of the participants and emergence of the solution as a result (rather than knowing it all up front). We'll discuss that more next time when we try to describe the software agility cycle. Posted: 2009-04-12 09:36:00Author:Brad Appleton
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