ABSTRACT
The term agile has come to mean many things to many people. The definitions and connotations range from how work is organized within a project to a description of the speed at which work is completed or alternately a radical rethinking of organizational culture. Regardless of how you define agile, I would suggest that we all would agree that agile methods are now maturing. Part of the process of maturing is the incorporation of best practices from other methods and frameworks creating 480a hybrid. The fringe is influencing the center and the center is influencing the fringe. The hybrid is at once better than any of the absolutes and threatening to those who believe in absolutes.
