As the saying goes, “One SIZE doesn’t fit all”. Same goes for Agile. All projects and products might or might not fit into the agile arena. In our case, it is working and we are actually reaping the benefits. Let me list out some areas where we SEE the difference:

• Faster Time to Market - The idea of two-week delivery cycles and quarterly RELEASE cadences helped in quicker deliveries.
• Feedback from real customers – Frequent collaboration with the clients helped the teams in BUILDING the right product rather than delivering at the end with surprises!
• Prompt risk detection - By delivering early and GETTING feedback, we reduce the risk of building the wrong product. By focusing on architectural risk in the early sprints, we reduce the risk that we won’t have a solution that can be built in time, at least the team knows it early.
• Improved Quality Stats – Quality is an integral part of the sprint in terms of code coverage, unit tests, peer reviews, etc.
• Predictability – With the teams trying to stabilize the velocity, we could easily predict the capacity for the upcoming release.

Every Agile journey is different, hence their experience. Thus, it is important to identify the success factors to promote excellence.