Greetings,
A friend recently asked me what I saw going on in the agile world in 2008, and what we might see more of in 2009. I looked back through some of the things I wrote about this year and came up with this.
Organizations are not asking if they should use agile, they are asking how they can adopt agile practices. Accordingly, many of the agile thought leaders have moved from talking about why an organization should do agile to how to do it well. Here is an example drawn from Brain Marick's keynote at a recent conference. A related topic that I've heard often discussed this year is The Power of Done.