Why Should We Consider Moving to Agile?

For organizations that are not happy with the delivery of their software development projects, Scrum / Agile is an approach made up of values, principles and specific practices that can help you deal with the constant need to change direction while still maintaining control, to dramatically decrease your time-to-market, to reduce the risk of working with complex projects, to improve the quality of delivery so your customers see fewer defects, while also increasing the engagement and morale of your people.

An Agile / Scrum approach achieves this by:

Ordering the delivery of functionality based on the “most important value first” principle, prioritizing our demand based on sound economic principles.

Delivering value piece by piece so that customers can provide feedback as the work is completed.

Delivering value in short iterations (also called sprints - 1-4 week time-boxes) to a known quality standard so the decision to release can be made at any time (usually it is determined that sufficient functionality is provided).

Ensuring there is transparency of progress and constant communication / collaboration between the people who need something and the people that can provide it.

Ensuring that we build plans based on the real capacity of the organization to deliver.