5 Strong Reasons Your Company Should Move to Agile Development
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This series is focused on approaching HRIS Project Management from outside of the box as experienced and documented by Garrett OBrien of CGServicesUSA Inc as well as Lauren Gander of HR Software Solutions, Inc.
Lets be clear right up front that we are not ditching any of the methodologies of Project Management. Instead, we are taking a look at just why some projects go so well while most others do not from our own experiences as well as those documented elsewhere. From there we are focusing on the successful elements that seem to be missing from most Project Management methodologies. The projects that do not go so well happen more frequent than not and it seems most Project Managers just give in to timeline extensions and over budget occurrences as being part of the learning curve to gain for the next project as well as being part of the job.
Garrett did as well until his 5th project and decided there was more to making a project come in on-time and within budget than just luck and more likely the cause of missing skills as well as incorrect perceptions. If some Project Managers could run most if not all their projects on time and within budget while most others could not, then we sought out to find out why some could consistently do so well.
We look into what contributed to those consistent successes in our entire content series The HRIS World Project Insights Series™ with the first 6 posts sharing the professional experiences of Garrett OBrien. These 1st 6 posts are the foundation of most of this series and it is highly suggested you give them a good read. They are easily found with the short URLs j.mp/thwCESintro1 to /thwCESintro6 as well as in the listing of related content in the toggle box at the end of all posts related to this series.
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This guest post is being republished and was originally submitted by Chris Bell – writer, VP, Software Engineer. Unfortunately, that is all we have on him right now as his information was lost when our database corrupted.
Agile development (also known as scrum development) is the practice of designing and releasing software features in frequent intervals.
Rather than releasing a final version of a software application at one time, agile teams are continuously releasing new iterations of an application, adding new features and refining the user experience.
Using agile practices, companies can enjoy a range of advantages beyond the traditional methods of software development.
Here are just 5 of the many benefits created by agile development…
Faster Return On Investment
By employing agile practices, you can start integrating your new software more quickly than if you use the traditional waterfall method of software development.
This means you can start taking advantage of the new features in your software sooner, allowing you to start seeing a return on your investment earlier in the process.
Continuously Improving Product
The very point of agile development is to create a software application that is continuously improving.
As developers test out software versions, learn new things, and get user feedback, they can modify the application to improve its performance in the next version.
Thus, each iteration is better than its last, so the software is always getting better.
Of course, this also contributes to a better return on your users’ software investment, which can be an excellent benefit to them.
Adapt On the Fly
Business environments are constantly changing.
If your company’s software can’t keep up, your product will become irrelevant to the marketplace.
With agile practices, you can adapt to changing business environments on the fly, adding new features and customizations to make your software work in new ways.
Traditional software development just can’t match the flexibility that is afforded with agile practices.
Reduce Development Risks
Every software development project comes with risks.
In the end, success is determined by if the product delivers what the user needs to efficiently perform the task at hand. With traditional software development methods, you run the risk of delivering software that might technically meet the user’s requirements but not really be what they wanted.
Agile development reduces the risk of this taking place through the ongoing, frequent delivery of working software that allows users to provide feedback throughout the development process.
Increase Creativity and Innovation
With traditional software development, the development team is focused simply on the day-to-day tasks involved in designing a software application.
They don’t have time to think outside the box to find innovative additions that will make the software better than first planned, because they’re simply concerned with sticking to the tight development schedule.
Agile development creates a development environment that allows room for innovation based on feedback and ongoing testing and learning.
The Last Word
With these benefits, it’s clear that switching to agile development can help your company get to the next level.
Your users will be more satisfied with your product and it will help you stay ahead of industry trends.
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