The term "agile," which has gained increasing popularity in today's IT and larger business world, is applied as an adjective to a variety of activities, ranging from computer programming to organizational behavior. The word agile stems from the Latin agere, an imperative form of the verb ago, meaning do or drive (or sometimes "drive back," a meaning that might resonate with harried IT practitioners).
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Understanding Perceptions of IT Agility
Posted March 31, 2008 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review
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Lou Mazzucchelli is a Fellow of Cutter Consortium and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He provides advisory services to technology and media companies. He will lend his broad expertise (and considerable wit) to Cutter Summit 2022 as its Moderator. Recently, Mr. Mazzucchelli was the coordinator of Bryant University’s Entrepreneurship Program, where he retooled and taught senior-level entrepreneurship courses. He… Read More
Tim Lister is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is also a frequent keynoter and moderator of the ADL Summit, powered by Cutter.
Mr. Lister, who has more than 40 years of professional software development experience, consults, trains, and lectures at enterprises worldwide. He assists IT organizations in tailoring methodologies and selecting tools for software development groups to… Read More
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