Increasingly, organizations create software via a complex, distributed supply chain that spans organizational boundaries and multiple software sources. As a result, communication between business stakeholders and a diverse range of IT resources has become increasingly more problematic. With disparate teams, disparate partners and disparate code sources, how can companies create a coherent, managed approach?

In this context and that of our current, difficult global economy, the business benefits of Agile development approaches become visceral and demonstrable. With highly constrained resources, organizations have little leeway for the long time-to-market, poor communication, and de...