As I read through Cutter Agile Practice Director Tom Grant’s recent article on Agile frameworks (see “Agile Frameworks: Does Anyone Know What a Framework Is?“), I kept thinking of one particular word: structure. People like frameworks because they provide a repeatable structure.

Agile frameworks are an attempt at defining a standard recipe that each team in an organization can follow. This recipe comes predefined with controls and deliverables and will help set a structure around Agile that other departments can understand. Moreover, a predefined recipe can be replicated across all the teams in the organization because they will all work the same way.

At least this is what some people hope.