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5 Strong Reasons Your Company Should Move to Agile Development

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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.

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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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