Agile for Executives: Improving Investment and Risk Management

by Jim Highsmith

As agile project management and development (for both hardware and software products) become more widespread in organizations, the debate over serial waterfall lifecycles versus iterative lifecycles moves from an engineering-level to an executive-level discussion. Many agile proponents believe that their mission is to convince executives that agile, iterative development is superior to serial development. I think this is the wrong issue to argue. Executives aren't concerned about development methodologies; they are most interested in two other things: investment and risk.

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Agile for Executives: Improving Investment and Risk Management November 2004