Agile enables to deliver higher-quality software faster. It encourages close collaboration between business and IT. Agile development when combined with code quality, program execution, & continuous delivery, results in true business agility.

Business Agility

Smaller agile teams can be high-touch collaborative. Large enterprise agile software team are distributed (typically global). The trade-off (of co-location) is done at these large enterprises as they:

• operate in global markets

• leverage global talent pool

• want to contain cost

While going agile, enterprise watch out for:

• Increased speed of delivery, increased changes, do not create regular outages (otherwise continuous delivery becomes continuous pain for customers)

• No tracking of what is done, where, when, how (Audit Risk – in regulated industries)

• Burned out staff