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As the workforce becomes better educated, more technology-savvy, and more flexible in handling job assignments, the pace of change will increase. Development of new management styles is now becoming imperative. These emerging management styles are already beginning to demonstrate significant benefit across a growing range of activity.
The assumptions that programmers do semiskilled blue-collar work -- and hence that they are virtually interchangeable and can be hired and fired at will -- are reminiscent of Taylorism as it came to be understood. Yet there can hardly be any domain in which those assumptions are less appropriate than software development.
Traditionally, risk management is advocated and assumed to be a self-evidently correct framework. It offers a planning method for individual risks yet ignores systemic, complex risk and uncertainty. Often, ways of managing risk are established based on compliance with process. The process itself and its application are not themselves questioned.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey examined whether and how organizations are implementing and managing API programs, the drivers behind such programs, the factors that make for a successful API strategy, the challenges and risks, and deployment strategies and value creation. Sixty-one percent of the 152 responding organizations are headquartered in North America, another 20% in Europe, 11% in Asia/Australia/Pacific, 4% in Africa, 3% in Central and South America, and 1% in the Middle East.
Transcending software development, this Executive Report outlines fundamental reasons for the popularity of Agile, the risks associated with the subjective element of Agile, and how to balance the flexibility with planning through a well-established Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS).
The psychology of Agile discusses, in a practical way, the importance and impact of the disciplines of psychology and sociology in using and deploying Agile as an overall organizational culture. The Agile Manifesto heralded a quantum shift in the way we work: moving away from the rigors of planned, formal approaches to one that is based on collaboration, communication, and trust.