Have Agile and Enterprise 2.0 something in common?

Nowadays companies are thinking to promote a social graph inside the corporate instead of hierarchies. This is common to agile practice where all the developers together are the project manager.

Agile Manifesto and 2.0 approach have something that sounds really similar: people. People are the key in both Agile and in Enterprise 2.0.
Agile Manifesto outlines how project will be managed in a more conversational way, where values are the driver in software development. An enterprise 2.0 is focusing on people too, where a company's seen as a multitude of people that are working together, having a relationship that helps the system growing.


Currently companies are focusing on process and tools over comprehensive documentation. Currently companies are following a plan that enables negotiation between Customer and Provider.

Agile shall make companies focusing on individuals and interactions. Agile focuses on working software that is responding to changes. Agile establishes Customer as a Partner through collaboration.

The enterprise 2.0 shall make companies focusing on relations between individuals and interaction over essential documentation and a fully functional company. The Enterprise 2.0 is responding to change and establishes Customer as a partner and colleague as a Friend.
Enterprise 2.0 focuses on adopting similar values expressed by the Agile Manifesto to corporate where the delivery is the corporate itself and not only software. Corporate, like Agile management techniques, trusts on human ability to create and maintain hi-value relations.

Both of the two mentioned approaches create a more conversational environment where colleagues/developers/partners can share their opinion their problem each other. Informal relations are brought forward to formal relation, where the main opportunity is to evolve something together.