Agile software development comprises a set of management practices and values based on customer focus achieved through iterative and incremental development, and where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers.

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To manage IT and optimize it to best serve the business, CIOs should recognize that IT management, like software development, will never be mechanistic.

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Overall this is a great cross functional success with the teams of software development, sustainability organization and facility management in energy savings and energy efficiency initiations.

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The tasks include things like client management and web and software development.

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Agile represents a management breakthrough that has enabled software development teams to systematically achieve both disciplined execution and continuous innovation, something that was impossible to accomplish with 20th Century hierarchical bureaucracy.

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This kind of myopic thinking is one of the biggest challenges for IT companies that reap a large share of their revenues from services application development and maintenance, infrastructure management and validation software.

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It is pervasive in software development and the thinking is now spreading to all branches of management.

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The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.

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