Progressive Medical Inc. saw that agile development could cut project development cycles by 25% to 40%. Progressive Medical decided to invest in more development staff after seeing an improvement in development time. Progressive eliminated cubicles and created, instead, an open work environment to encourage constant collaboration. Agile development has been gaining rapidly, and its pace of adoption may have been accelerated by the recession. It may already be in use in more than half of IT development shops, according to recent studies. The level of collaboration required by agile removes walls, literally.”]
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