I came across Twitter in a discussion on LinkedIn a few months ago and recently wrote a blog entry on how it might support agile software development practices. However, I've only recently had a chance to explore its actual effect on a project.
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One of the biggest challenges of Agile development is introducing its ideas and techniques beyond the project team using them. Project teams tpically see direct, and often immediate, benefits of using agile techniques but for those outside of the project it takes the right leadership and direction to enable agile adoption across the enterprise.
One of the biggest challenges facing agile development techniques is how to scale them to enterprise and global level initiatives that often have distributed teams, long delivery cycles, complex integrations and massive testing and training needs. While this can be challenging there are some approaches that can effectively scale agile techniques across the enterprise.
Agile development techniques emphasize a powerful value system that increase productivity and effectiveness of teams, however, they become even more powerful when blended with the full project lifecycle methodology of the Unified Process.