Agile practices have long been used by companies to speed up development and create products more in line with what business line leaders and customers want. At Synchrony Financial, Carol Juel, chief ...

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Agile thinking has come from software developers. The agile method is an alternative project management technique that designs a process that is inherently more aligned to customer need.

A new book and the survey being used to market it suggest that the Agile software development method falls short. But do the criticisms hold up for a software veteran?