Business Innovation with Agile

"Agile methodology describes a set of principles for software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change."Source: Wikipedia

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processes and current structure of

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Suggestions for improvement and

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Application design together with the client

Application construction

and implementation

Evaluation and Monitoring

AGILEMETHODOLOGY

Mapping processes to determine the starting point

and the "Actual State"

Optimize a process with a right combination of

technologies

Source: Smart Strategy Online

Review technology options with the client

Weekly delivery of developments for the end

user to operate and request for changes

Closely monitor the process to ensure metrics agreed upon

are being met

An Overview of Agile Methodology

Innovation Sought Through Adopting Agile

of companies using agile said making business

processes more efficient was their reason behind

adoption

56% 35%said they wanted to promote

collaboration between disparate business

processes and units

25%said they wanted to improve

visibility to workflows

22%said they wanted to build in compliance and traceability

to business processes

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Benefits of Applying Agile Principles

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2x Skilled Agile teams are twice as likely to succeed than unskilled teams

93%success rate estimated for Scrum projects having an efficient Program Management Office (PMO)

2xImprovement in productivity when Scrum teams dedicated 95% of their time to projects as opposed to teams that put in less than 50% of their time

Some Benefits of Agile Principles

Barriers to Further Agile Adoption

Inability to change organisational culture 53% Trying to fit Agile

elements into a non-Agile framework

35%

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Sources:

Rigby, D.K., Berez, S., Caimi, G. and Noble, A., “Agile Innovation”, Bain & Company, 2015.

General Resistance to change 42%

Availability of personnel with the

right skills33%