BPM, Agile, and Virtualization Combine to Create Effective Solutions

The rate of change in business and government is accelerating. A number of techniques for addressing that change have emerged independently to provide for automated solutions in this environment. This paper will examine three of the most popular of these technologies— business process management, the agile software development movement, and infrastructure virtualization— to expose the commonalities in these approaches and how, when used together, their combined effect results in rapidly deployed, more successful solutions. Keywords—Agile; BPM; business process management; Rapid Solutions Development; Virtualization; Workflow