Agile Benefits

Have we ever thought of why most of the projects lose their direction before their completion?

There could be several factors which can hamper the pace and the direction of projects to name a few:

• Indistinct Project Vision
• No framework around requirements gathering
• Inadequate Project Planning
• No or low client collaboration

So, the next logical question which comes to mind is how an ideal Project Plan and Execution should look like?

The best way to answer this question is “Go for Adaptive Agile Methodology”

Now let’s understand how each element with in the Adaptive Agile Model works?

Project Vision – Talks about the road-map and the goals of the project which provides a direction for the project.

Framework – A framework will act a one stop shop where the Project Team and the client can view the Business Objective and the Approach to realize the project vision with the help of well-defined and focused User Stories. (In my next blog I will touch upon user stories and its benefits)

The Plan – It is an integral part of the Framework ensuring that each Mini Project or Sprint (It is usually a part of a release plan, I will touch upon Sprints in my upcoming blogs) is well placed within the Framework to realize the Project Vision.

Let’s Collaborate – This is one of the most important pieces of this Model. So, let’s understand what do we mean by word Scrum?

SCRUM is a movable set of guidelines that oversee the progress of a project, from its plan stages to its completion. It is one of the sought after methodology of Agile manifesto which aims to overcome some common failure points with in a project by promoting:

• Communication in between the Project Teams and the end customer
• Effective Customer Problem solving techniques
• Structured approach to complete a particular task
• What the team learned from their previous sprints in a form of Retrospective Meetings

(Note: This is an Adaptive Agile Methodology and not a pure Agile Method of executing a project)