In the quest to achieve enterprise agility, most organizations address the issue by handcrafting smaller and building computer programs more rapidly. Different companies may call the process by different names. Still, they are all essentially doing the same thing: trying to speed up programming as the be-all, end-all solution to their enterprise agility conundrum. The problem with that resolution, however, is that it is one-dimensional. The change required to achieve enterprise agility needs to be approached from more than one angle, specifically from outside the typical Information Technology (IT) approach.

It is unclear when Information Technology determined it could make the Enterprise “agile” by continuing to hand-craft solutions – whether the techniques used were small (agile), continuous (incremental development), off the shelf (COTS – commercial off the shelf) software modifications to “fit” the business needs, trying to figure out ahead of programming what is needed (use-cases or scenarios) or frankly, any other technique that relies on handcrafting solutions. IT simply cannot keep up with the required business change requirements. Please tune in – we know we may have stepped on some toes!

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