Today's increased competition and challenging business climate are driving the need for delivering better software products, faster, and more cost effectively. As a result, software organizations are looking to reduce cycle time-to market, increase quality, reduce costs, and enhance organizational flexibility through the use of agile development.

This paper explores best practices for ensuring success for your Agile initiative and how you can successfully employ both Agile methods and leverage global outsourcing by use of a hybrid Agile development methodology. Benefits of agile development include:

• Increased revenue from delivering some product functionality and features earlier
• Improved quality due to the integration of testing throughout the lifecycle.
• Higher user satisfaction since they are actively involved during the process
• Built in risk mitigation as a result of highly visible, incremental releases