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Agile and the Orders of Ignorance

level to ideas such as the SEI’s CMM

SM

and similar models. Of the detailed

modeling conventions, few companies have expressed much interest at

organizational levels. Similarly, in larger companies I have seen merely a

mild interest in what Agile is. A major challenge for such companies will

always be the apparent requirement for devolution of control to the team.

Many large companies have a vested interest in what they consider to be

maintaining tight control over the activities, budgets, assignments, and

processes of the people working for them. To give up some of that control

may not be easy.

Nevertheless, most of the literature on Agile has been directed at the

smaller project; the intact, co-located team; and ...