Agile software development is the focus of new professional services being launched this week by Digital Focus, which is unveiling its “Experience Agile” pratice. Digital Focus says agile development is defined by short development cycles, lots of interaction between business and IT and a focus on automation between testing and deployment. “The biggest challenge [in implementing agile programming] is just the organizational change involved in thinking about doing a software project in a different way,” said Jeff Nielsen, chief scientist at Digital Focus. Software development is becoming an art rather than being engineering, added Digital Focus President Erin Smith. Experience Agile provides mentoring, coaching and training services to improve the way development teams build custom software, Digital Focus said. The practice seeks to support the transition of clients’ internal development teams from traditional software engineering practices to an agile approach.Prices vary. For example, Digital Focus charges $80,000 for an assessment on moving from “waterfall” development process to agile. https://www.digitalfocus.com Software Development