Adaption Software is a small consortium of agile developers, trainers, consultants, and coaches, led by Patrick Wilson-Welsh.

We believe that the entire software industry is on an agile path -- a path toward increasing community, respect, feedback, simplicity, and courage. We embrace the agile practices expressed by Extreme Programming, and we use as many of them on our projects as local circumstances permit.

You know what? Business software development can be maddeningly difficult. It can make you crazy. Every project of any size and worth begins trying to run off the rails on Day One. The relationships, the requirements understanding, the technologies, the code -- heck, the computers -- all lean powerfully toward entropy in each moment. If our efforts feel heroic, that's because they are. So how can we help each other in our quest for more agility? We can discern what specific principles and practices seem to help us soonest and most on our own projects, in our own teams, and compare our challenges and successes to those of other projects and teams. We can help each other find the courage to try new things, to measure the results, and to make adjustments. We can share our discoveries with each other.

We're always looking for more agility in all things, not simply software development, so we were delighted to have a chance to experience for ourselves an emerging agile decision-making and steering system called Holacracy, invented at Ternary Software. Holacracy makes it clear that perhaps the entire world can use a more agile perspective, and perhaps agility is larger and more profound than those of us in the software industry originally imagined. Perhaps, indeed, the entire world is on an agile path.

For more of Adaption's theories, prejudices, and musings, see our articles.