Kevin Matheny has written a really excellent piece at BusinessWeek, extolling the virtues of agile software development.  I think it can be one of the toughest battles within a large organization but if you win and are allowed to be flexible, the benefits are easily more than any struggles you’ll have.

What this means for managing projects—including any project that relies on the Internet to deliver its value proposition—is simple: The longer your project timeline, the greater the risk that what you deliver will not be what you or your customers need when you deliver it. Not only are longer-term projects more likely to fail due to changes in requirements or conditions during the project, they’re more expensive. This increases the cost of failure. And because we can only do a few of them in a year, the impact of any one failure is huge.

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