Agile: Frequency = Currency

Was talking to our Chief Architect (see netflings ) this morning about his experience with what well executed agile projects can do for you and your client IT manager. Showing the business that your quick hits add value and iterating to what they actually want, buys you a lot of credibility and therefore currency in dealings with them later on .. either to get more busines from them, or to use your credits for when you do mess things up (which you will at some point!).

The interesting thing about our CA's project is that is was done with a small team of .NET developers working along side the traders of a hedge fund who are big into credit derivatives. Instead of buying an off the shelf product like JRisk, this team delivered with a high frequency and thus very low risk (once they got over the initial hump of getting their feet under the table)..