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Introduction to agile

Jun 18, 2021
4 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

With more focus on continuous improvement, agile project management beats the traditional linear way of managing projects as well as developing products and services. Increasingly, many organizations are slowly adopting the agile project management methodology since it uses a series of some shorter product development cycles for great project success. This project management style allows for continuous integration, rapid development, and continuous delivery.

Agile project management lets cross-functional teams work on pieces of projects, solve problems, and move projects forward in shorter phases. This way, teams can iterate more quickly and give more frequent updates.

With the agile methodology, there’s a higher level of quality improvements on an incremental basis rather than waiting to distribute the finished projects. According to a PWC report, agile projects are 28% more successful than traditional methodologies.

What is Agile?

Agile is a project management methodology that breaks down larger projects into smaller, manageable chunks known as iterations. At the end of each iteration (which typically occurs over a fixed time interval), something of value is produced. The product produced during each iteration should be able to be deployed to the world to receive feedback from stakeholders or users.

Contrary to Waterfall project management, agile is strictly sequenced: you do not commence design until research is complete, and development doesn’t commence until all designs are signed off. In agile, developers, designers, and business people work together simultaneously.

The Benefits: Why The Agile Methodology Rocks

Agile was initially developed for the software industry to improve and streamline the development process, enabling quick identification and adjustment to defects and issues. It offers a way for teams and developers to deliver a better project, faster, through short, iterative sprints/sessions. And with many companies moving to the digital workplace, agile is an excellent fit for organizations looking to transform how they manage projects and operate overall. Here’s why the agile methodology is beneficial.

Speed to Market

The agile methodology allows you to get the concept to your users as fast as possible. During every iteration, an agile project produces something valuable. At any instance, you could decide you want to launch what has been delivered in order to start building your user base or test your hypothesis.

Flexibility

The agile methodology is based on accommodating change. Projects, particularly software, regularly change. As products come to life or the market broadens, you must be able to react and update the product accordingly. Agile also embraces that great ideas can arise mid-project, and locking yourself into a scope won’t let you take advantage of such realizations.

Risk Management

With incremental releases available, users and stakeholders could use and test the product early in the process. This allows you to identify feature deficits and issues early in the production process. Being adaptable to change also means it is acceptable to alter the scope midway through your project, something that is impossible with the waterfall methodology.

Cost Control

Unlike fixed-budget projects, agile projects are incredibly flexible in terms of scope. In most cases, clients realize that the features they initially requested are no longer important, allowing them to launch much sooner and pay less. Agile, however, is not about paying too much for high levels of uncertainty but instead about paying only for what you need. Want to stick to your budget? That shouldn’t be a problem because with agile, you can rearrange the product backlog so that essential new features are implemented at the expense of the less important ones, rather than your budget.

Quality

The agile methodology integrates testing through the entire project process. Consistently delivering tested products means higher overall quality and minimal time spent quality-assuring the product as a whole. Incremental releases allow for early and frequent tests on products. Even when products are not released to the public, it is easier to identify flaws so improvements can be made while you still have the actual product to play with, rather than working from scratch on a series of new designs.