The Agile-Social Mesh

Janis is an award-winning journalist and editor who has covered many industries beyond project management, including health care, financial services, higher education and retail sales.

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As Agile evolves beyond software development, its people-centric mandate is a natural ally to the social technology revolution transforming today’s enterprises. Here, a leading strategist in the social business landscape shares his thoughts on the interplay of these two movements, including how Kanban and DevOps fit.

Editor’s Note: This is one in an ongoing series of interviews with thought leaders in the agile community.

Erik Huddleston is chief technology officer at Dachis Group, a leader in the social business space. Dachis is one of world’s largest preferred Facebook developers, yet its services extend far beyond a single application. Dachis helps clients with social business strategy (creating competitive advantage and building industry leadership), social business engagement (building social solutions for customer, workforce and enterprise connections) and social business intelligence (aggregating and analyzing data to find business value).

What makes this breakthrough work a little less back-breaking? Agile methods, Huddleston says. And he’s adept at discussing about how agile and social business are natural companions. Huddleston’s expertise in this emerging field landed him an invite to February’s agile anniversary celebration in Salt Lake City. Described as a “talented and visionary technologist,” Huddleston …

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