Category: reasoning

Business benefits of Agile methods

March 1, 2007 by Artem

Agile methods significantly differ from the traditional waterfall-like methods. Agile teams don't need a half a year of requirement analysis and design before the coding phase, most of the tests are written by programmers and are automated, customers are asked to participate, try live software and provide feedback frequently. All these peculiarities as well as inability to commit to the concrete set of deliverables early sometimes make agile methods look fluid and unpredictable - something not valued by the business people.

However, agile methods have a reason for not committing to the end result in the beginning of the project.