agile

IPA: ˈædʒʌɫ

(chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.
Alternative letter-case form of agile (agile software development) [(chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.]

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.
Characterised by quick motion.
(chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.
Alternative letter-case form of agile (of or related to agile software development) [Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.]

Examples of "agile" in Sentences

It's closely related to what they call agile (or rapid) program development.
Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.
We decide to use the term agile to describe this new breed of, setting out the values and principles of these agile processes.
- "Ok, so you don't like the term agile … but I'm more than happy to use it to describe what I see is way forward for GIS mapping."
Another level could be called "agile big data," whose concern is solving a different class of problems and allows more experimentation.
I was only challenging the Blogger to his "Agile Mapping" title and the first line of information that suggested that with this example we were to conclude "agile mapping is where we need to be" … Throwing the term agile into any title and leading statement is fodder for dissenting options.
The terms agile or waterfall tend to be used rather than any mention of Toyota (although I am aware of one source that talks about kanban software development) but the concepts of managing by walking around, standardized work, the worker stopping the assembly line, the extended supplier community supplying parts just in time and so forth sounds a lot like community forums, rapid application development,