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Stakeholders in every modern business face increased competition, sparking invention of new ways to deliver value to customers. Both factors drive increasing demand for faster delivery of new products and services.
Delivering value to customers consistently and rapidly requires a change in viewpoint from traditional development approaches, favoring:
- People interacting as a team
- Delivering useful product continuously
- Collaborating with customers
- Responding to change
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
A team of motivated people is a dynamic method to deliver business value. The team:
- Decides how to do the work
- Does the work
- Identifies and resolves problems
Useful product over comprehensive documentation
The team’s goal is to deliver useful product incrementally, continuously delivering value to the business while avoiding over-specification. The product could be working software, or product improvements or service features.
Collaboration over process and negotiation
Team members work with customer stakeholders to build, inspect, adapt and deliver the product increment, ensuring value from the customer viewpoint.
Responding to change over following a plan
Plans are useful in organizing the team’s work. Close collaboration with the customer speeds the process of responding to change. Plans must change if the customer alters priorities, makes strategic decisions or recognizes new opportunities.
We can help you discover your team’s inherent Agility
Scrum is an Agile framework that helps a team complete work in short iterations or ‘sprints’, collaborating with stakeholders to respond to change while delivering value incrementally and continuously. Agile Playground Consulting can help you adopt Scrum practice to your product development needs.