While originally intended for software development, the sensible ideas in the Agile Manifesto apply equally to Marketing, Sales, HR, and all other departments in a company. The challenge for non-Engineering groups is taking an idea like, “Working software over comprehensive documentation,” and making it meaningful for the non-technical tasks at hand.
Agile methodologies, like XP, focus on the technical nitty-gritty and have no crossover application for nontechnical usage. The more general Scrum methodology, however, is usage-agnostic. Granted, the originators of Scrum and the other Agile methodologies had software delivery in mind just as the Agile Manifesto guys sought innovative ways to better approach ...
Get The Agile Enterprise now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
