Why use the Agile Methodology

The Agile methodology is a disciplined approach to managing projects or product development where there is still considerable uncertainty and ambiguity at the early stages of the project. It enables you to start “now” and work with what’s certain and unambiguous and progressively move the  “uncertain and ambiguous” items  to the “certain and unambiguous” work queue.

The Agile methodology is a defined process that makes it easier for a project team to deal with complexity and coherence using an incremental discovery approach.

The Agile methodology ensures that the limited resources in a project are always allocated to tasks that represent the "high business value" work

The Agile methodology ensures that the time between the idea and the delivery has a short feedback loop to enable any corrections to be made early. The longer the feedback loop the greater the cost of the corrections times a multiplier effect. This short feedback loop enables quick and early adaptations to business changes.

The Agile methodology reduces churn and replaces it with a steady predictable rhythm (cadence). This steady predictable rhythm reduces variability in the work and improves the teams productivity and quality. This steady predictable rhythm aids and improves the quality of decision-making. This steady predictable rhythm enables the team to build and work to predictable realistic schedules that are more likely to be met 99% of the time than the artificially set, mandated from the top, unrealistic schedules that are least likely to be met and cause untold disruption to projects time, cost, productivity and quality.