Embracing Agilism

My view on How come Enterprise Architects don't embrace agilism?

Two ways to adopt the change in corporate world, bottom up or top down. Bottom up approach means someone unknown in enterprise adopt a new tactics to improve the conventional procedure. It is adopted by small project and benefits are published at enterprise level. In this case, change is accepted slowly or sometimes never.

Secondly, in top down approach, management decide to change the things for better and publish new guidelines to be followed by corporate. Change is easily accepted in this approach. But no one in top wants to take risk which comes packaged with change.

In both the approach one needs a leadership quality to spread the benefits of change. Take a case of Agile methodology, its like a change.

Agile is gaining momentum. Corporate are trying its best practices like Test Driven Development etc. Mostly, its happening through bottom up approach. A slow approach. It is not easy to change the whole process in one go. Big Enterprises are embracing agilism in bits and pieces to find the benefits.