The Agile Business Thrives
For business managers it’s important that the structure of software solutions is based on the strategy and structure of the business. If the business software is structured the same way as the business is, it becomes easier and less risky to change the software concurrent with the changes in business. When this is the case, the business becomes agile. The agile business always beats the less-agile competitor in the long run.
The most important purpose for service-oriented architectures is the business agility they’re capable of bringing to the enterprise. And being agile is a required—even if hard to achieve—attribute of any modern business. It is much more important for a business as such to be agile than for the software it uses to be produced by agile development methods. There’s not necessarily any conflict between the two, but business agility is by far the most important one.
November 10th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I totally agree with your point that a business needs to be agile, and I would suggest that any software solutions which are used to run your business need to be agile also. SaaS offers the ability to quickly introduce new functionality whereas a traditional on premise solution may struggle to keep up with your business.
Having been away from NZ for a few years now, its great to see forward thinking technologists thrive there.
Troy.