Agile Benefits
The most recent studies highlight that agile approaches improve project success rates and increase the project’s benefits. Moreover, many companies are starting by managing projects in a Hybrid environment. For example, a common configuration is to plan upfront with the traditional approach and use agile in product development phases.
Here are some of the most common benefits of adopting agile:
Better products
Agile is an effective product development approach. Rapid and incremental sprints, continuous integration, automated tests, daily testing, sprint demos, and retrospectives enable the team to frequently inspect the product. More specifically, these inspections enable the team to confirm that the product is fit for use, fix defects quickly, incorporate feedback, and adapt as needed.
Increase customer satisfaction
Agile effectively addresses customer satisfaction. Agile teams deliver product requirements earlier and frequently. They demonstrate the product in every iteration, improving visibility and involving the customer representatives throughout the development process.
Deliver benefits sooner
Agile teams prioritize the product backlog items and break down the project into releases and sprints. Agile time-boxed sprints deliver the most valuable requirements sooner.
Predictable project performance
Agile teams adopt a fixed-duration sprint, with a fixed amount of resources. These sprints provide a predictable scenario to estimate the cost of each sprint. Fixed-duration scheduling at the release and project level significantly mitigates project performance risk.
Improve visibility
Agile teams adopt daily stand-ups, information radiators, and sprint reviews. These events and artifacts offer an opportunity to understand performance. Moreover, they offer an opportunity to engage stakeholders effectively in project activities.
Improve collaboration
The team and customer representatives work closely through a continuous collaborative effort to define, design, develop, inspect, and adapt the product.
In summary, the agile methodologies brought many advantages to the teams and organizations that use them. Surely, probably one of the most important is increasing communication.
