Going agile the wrong way - How enterprise adaptation hurts agile software development
The topic of how to make agile and enterprise organizations fit together better has garnered some interest. No matter what your position on the issue, if you blog about it, and tell me, I will list a link to your post here. I do believe this is an important issue: Pascal Pinck wrote some thoughtful comments on his blog Hanzatsu . Now on to my post: There is a rather active thread in the Agile Alliance forum on LinkedIn regarding the Agile Manifesto and whether it is in need of an overhaul. The premise is that enterprise organizations have been slow to adopt agile methodologies, and therefore basic agile principles should be revised in order to make adoption easier. I disagree strongly. While I can see ways in which the principles behind the Agile Manifesto can be improved, I believe increased enterprise compatibility is the wrong goal to set. Here is one of my posts in the thread: @Alan - I liked the blog post. (Alan Shalloway's blog post is here .) @Everyone - I lo