InsightaaS: Cutter Consortium is an IT advisory firm focused on software development and agile project management. Cutter’s blog site site presents “opinions on and reactions to what’s happening in business technology.” In this post, Cutter senior consultant Scott Ambler discusses key characteristcs of agile IT departments.
An agile enterprise is a flexible, robust organization that is capable of rapid response to unexpected challenges, events, and opportunities. Agile enterprises achieve continuous competitive advantage in serving their customers by following strategies that facilitate speed and change. Enablers of enterprise agility include diffused authority; flat organizational structures; trust-based relationships with customers and suppliers; and, of course, an agile information technology strategy. In this post, I focus on what it takes to have an agile IT strategy.
IT departments that are truly agile, or are at least on the path to becoming so, exhibit several key characteristics…
Read the entire post: http://blog.cutter.com/2013/07/16/making-an-agile-it-strategy/
