Delivery early and often is ONE of the two crucial pieces’ needed to achieve optimum economic outcomes through Lean-Agile approach. It is an integral part of SAFe Principle #1 – Take an economic view. “If the solution doesn’t meet the Customer’s or solution PROVIDER’s economic goals, then its sustainability is suspect” – As per scaledagileframework.com

The concept emphasizes the importance of early and frequent releases to the customer by delivering business value at every delivery. Earlier the process model allowed the product being accessible to the customers at the end hence impacting the customers to reap early BENEFITS from the markets, services delivered to market early are typically more valuable. Early delivery often benefits with the fact that the customer is continually being part of the process and contributes through significant feedbacks.

Moving towards Agile development is big step that organizations choose to take as it requires a lot of effort from all the directions but they resort to this stage once they realize that their existing processes aren’t generating the results they need. Through the concept of DELIVER early and often, the organizations can go for incremental development and early and continuous value delivery and in turn benefiting the customers and at the same time satiating the economic view as a whole.