In HR, “agile” can refer to many things: agile L&D, hiring agility, agile benefits or Agile culture. But in this article, I’ll be addressing agile workforces, because understanding how the definitions ...

In 2001, at Utah’s Snowbird ski resort, 17 software developers got together and produced the groundbreaking Agile Manifesto. It was meant to streamline the software development process by ...

It’s hard to be a leader in the business world and not hear the buzzword “agile leaderhip” a time or two. But what does this industry term really mean for everyday business professionals? As a leader, ...

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Every manager knows about the nightmare programming project. The project that takes twice as long as expected, has massive cost overruns—and there’s no end in sight. When you presented the partial ...

An umbrella term for a variety of best practices in creating applications and information systems. These methods have proven to be more effective in dealing with changing requirements during the ...

Businesses live and die via their ability to compete, stay current, make strategic adjustments and evolve with trends. Executives and their careers are bound by the same rules. Clever nimble responses ...

At Con-way, almost all good ideas require technology to implement. Yet historically, ideas would become cold by the time they made it through IT steering committees, project planning and design ...

While this list is far from exhaustive, the important thing to understand is that agile isn’t a rigid book of rules and regulations From the outside, agile might look like a single set of practices.

For years the state of California has been doing multi-year, multimillion-dollar software projects, only to find that many of them don’t produce the results the state had hoped for. They take too long ...