Technologies for Agile Teams

Agile is the highest-ranking technology in terms of past and future impact.1 Agile methods have been successfully used at the team level for three decades. Methods such as Scrum can be used in practically all industries and disciplines. Even surgery teams in hospitals today use such methods to emphasize team spirit and growing dependencies on each other. The problem is that such agile methods do not scale easily. Although companies with an organizationwide agile culture clearly financially outperform their peers, agility is far from trivial. To put it in black and white: Agile is often considered as throwing away established process culture as Vector Consulting observes from the task forces it is called into when projects are failing.