IDC PlanScape: Scaling Agile for Greater Business Benefit

IDC PlanScape: Scaling Agile for Greater Business Benefit

This IDC PlanScape frames the evolution of an enterprise from using agile to being agile using practices widely in use today, and it explains what a CIO needs to know prior to proposing enterprisewide adoption.According to Cora Carmody, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP), "CIOs who have endorsed agile approaches at the project level and seen the successful results can imagine the impact if the enterprise mission and vision are executed by an agile approach that spans the organization. Their leadership style is doubtless — the kind that inspires trust and confidence within their teams and within the C-suite. The example that they have set within their own organizations, coupled with the successful case studies of numerous companies, sets up an intriguing discussion in the C-suite that starts with the CIO saying, 'What if...'"

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