If you??™re having trouble with any of these areas, agile
development might help.
Organizational Success
Agile methods achieve organizational successes by focusing on delivering value and decreasing costs.
This directly translates to increased return on investment. Agile methods also set expectations early in
the project, so if your project won??™t be an organizational success, you??™ll find out early enough to cancel
it before your organization has spent much money.
Specifically, agile teams increase value by including business experts and by focusing development
efforts on the core value that the project provides for the organization. Agile projects release their most
valuable features first and release new versions frequently, which dramatically increases value. When
business needs change or when new information is discovered, agile teams change direction to match.
In fact, an experienced agile team will actually seek out unexpected opportunities to improve its plans.
Agile teams decrease costs as well. They do this partly by technical excellence; the best agile projects
generate only a few bugs per month. They also eliminate waste by cancelling bad projects early and
replacing expensive development practices with simpler ones.
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