Last year many people asked us about the benefits of Agile compared to traditional ways of creating products. Because of that we had a short brainstorming session and came up with this list of forty advantages of Agile:
- A customer gets value regularly even during the first weeks of development.
- Products are usable after the first two weeks.
- Continuous risk reduction from the start of a project.
- Results are available faster.
- The high commitment of a client.
- Easier product market adaptation.
- Higher competitiveness.
- Higher team engagement.
- Teams know and understand the business model.
- Task prioritization according to business values and risks.
- Higher productivity.
- Higher quality.
- Higher product knowledge in the team.
- Management leads more, manages less.
- Removal of micromanagement.
- Great visibility of the state of a product.
- Continuous improvement of processes and practices.
- Continuous review of vision and product strategy.
- Easy metrics allow operational validation of product status and changing according to requirements.
- Higher speed of delivery to markets.
- Higher customer trust.
- Projects more successful.
- The result is motivation.
- United team members.
- More frequent bug fixes.
- More intense cooperation and communication within a team as well as with a customer.
- The regular rhythm of team synchronization.
- Better predictability of supplies.
- Increased client satisfaction.
- Balanced cost of development.
- The team focused on the result.
- More effective team management in spite of regular changes.
- Higher team morality and discipline.
- Improved engineering practices.
- Easier and more effective development process.
- Good process adaptation to the culture of a company.
- Better ROI.
- A holistic approach to development, from development techniques, tools to team building, processes, and culture of a company.
- Significant improvement of presentation skills.
- Unmotivated individuals often decide to change (or change).
