Benefits Realized by Applying Agile

Oscar Correia is a Senior Test Engineer with 12 years of project delivery expertise combined with technology skills and business acumen.

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Getting a team from where it is now to where you want it to go is not a simple task. Planning the process is key to making this and other transitions work. Without a process to follow, the project experiences the following negative effects:

• Stressed team
• Increased rework: Team members end up scheduling frequent overtime.
• Lack of proper documentation: Work specifications are communicated only through word of mouth; developers (or the whole team) understand that it was A, but the client wanted B.
• Delays with onboarding: When an employee leaves the team, a new member is added to the team--and that member's ramp-up causes significant project delays.
• Single (or specialized) skills reduce the progress of the project and the team: The collaborator accumulates more functions to add to the backlog.
• Disorder and increased duplicate effort: Few or no meetings create confusion over the scope and details of work. The lack of project status and other communication lead to the potential duplication of tasks and efforts.

But there’s a simple solution to complex projects: Create agile project teams. These teams close the gap between business areas and IT, reduce the workload, do away with rework and improve communication and team performance. After comparing project performance with the traditional method, you will …

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