Why go agile with your development team? Simply put, an agile methodology allows you to deliver the most business value per dollar spent. The foundation of agile lies in its iterative process – every 2-4 weeks, the development team demos a fully functioning piece of software with key stakeholders. This process has the following benefits:
1) Ensures that course corrections can be quick and easy.
Often, software development of a fully featured, enterprise-class piece of software can take months, if not years. If any miscommunications occur at the beginning, it is essential that these get resolved before they become fundamental assumptions of the application. An iterative process allows you to catch these issues earlier and resolve them more easily.
2) Allows for changing requirements as business needs change with market demands.
In a quickly changing world, what your business needed even just a few months ago may no longer be relevant. Having outdated requirements means that the software based on those requirements is similarly outdated, and such software loses its business value. An iterative process allows requirements to be modified and adapted as your business evolves.
3) Ensures that you always have a functioning piece of software in production.
Sometimes, projects need to be canceled or postponed. An iterative process means that at every point in the process you will have a functioning piece of software that can still deliver some business value. In a traditional methodology, you could easily be left with nothing.
At Entrance, we deliver projects using an agile+ methodology to maximize the value of software in your business.