Agile Project Governance

by Rob Thomsett

For most of its history, computing has experienced a management lag. The emerging agile development model has avoided this to some degree with a number of excellent models for agile or radical project management being developed and adopted. However, the impact on and implications for the governance of IT projects as well as the broader areas of IT governance from adopting agile development have been relatively ignored. In this Executive Report by Rob Thomsett, we explore the challenges that agile development presents to IT and project governance.