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Agility can refer to:

In Sport:
  • Sport agility, a component of physical fitness that describes changing the body's direction with speed and precision.
  • Dog agility, a sport for dogs in which they must be quick-moving and nimble.
  • Rabbit agility, a sport for rabbits.
  • Rat agility, a sport for rats.
In Business:
  • Agility often defined as the ability of a firm to sense and respond to business opportunities in order to stay innovative and competitive in a turbulent and quickly changing business environment. An agile firm (one that demonstrates agility) has the capabilities and processes to respond to unexpected environmental changes. It is one of the ilities.
  • Agility, a conceptual framework in computing
  • Anystream Agility, enterprise-based media encoding software.
  • Agility Logistics, a global provider of logistics and supply chain solutions
  • Agility CMS, Web content management software
Agility definitions have traditionally centered around skills that are needed for the body to change direction at speed. A classic definition is the ability to change the body's direction efficiently, and this requires a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, and
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Agility field left side: A competition agility field showing (clockwise from lower left) a tunnel, the dogwalk, the judge standing in front of a winged jump, two additional winged jumps, dog executing the teeter-totter with his handler guiding, and the tire jump.
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Rabbit show jumping is a competition in which trained domestic rabbits leap over appropriately sized obstacles.

This novelty sport began in the late 1970s in Sweden. It was popularized in the United Kingdom following an appearance on the TV show That's Life!.
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Rat agility is a sport for pet rats. It basically uses scaled down versions of the obstacles used for dog agility. The sport originated in Sweden and can trace it's origin back to table runs (owner on one side of the table had to get the rat from the other side to move across the
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Within systems engineering, -ilities are aspects or non-functional requirements. They are so-named because most of them end in "-ility."

The "-ilities" often include:
  • accessibility
  • accountability
  • agility

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Software development process
Activities and steps
Requirements | Architecture | Implementation | Testing | Deployment
Models
Agile | Cleanroom | Iterative | RAD | RUP | Spiral | Waterfall | XP
Supporting disciplines
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Anystream, Inc.

Private
Founded 2000
Headquarters Sterling, VA

Industry Software
Products Agility (Audio/Video Encoding), Apreso (Lecture Capture)
Website Anystream.
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Agility [1]

Public Company [2] [3]
Founded 1979
Headquarters Dubai, UAE,
Hong Kong, SAR
Basel, Switzerland
Orange County, California

Key people Tarek Sultan, Chairman
Industry Logistics, Supply Chain Solutions
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