"There are twice as many companies doing it today than there were a year ago, " says Mike Cyger , a former GE manager and founder of iSixSigma.com, a Web site devoted to business process improvement.

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The result is that management spends a large amount of time looking at process improvement ideas, rather than defining broader process and business problems.

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But despite the sophistication of agile principles in the development space and numerous examples of their successful application in organizations of all shapes and sizes the broader community of business leaders is just starting to understand the value of agile development in solving more general business challenges, including issues around market forces, competitive pressures, company culture and values, technology, process improvement, and others.

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