Pacific Edge Software, an "Agile" Company

Agile approaches are primarily focused on producing software artifacts. Organizations that produce products based on these artifacts (like my current employer, Pacific Edge Software) need to understand how an agile software development effort interfaces with the broader product development lifecycle and the organizations that support them.

Agile is the way we build software, and it has been institutionalized into development, test and documentation.

The interesting thing that's occurred over the last few months is how we've extended agile to encompass nearly all organizations and functions at Pacific Edge including product management, product marketing, sales, and even executive management. I'll drill down on these areas over the next several posts. 

Suffice it to say that Pacific Edge has truly become an agile organization.


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