The Importance of Agile

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Ahmed Mohamed Ali Omar sohag, SHG, Egypt

Agile is crucial in today’s fast-paced business environment because it shifts the focus from rigid planning to delivering actual value. Here is why it matters:

High Adaptability:
Agile allows teams to respond to changes quickly. If market trends shift or a customer changes their mind, the team can pivot without restarting the entire project.
Faster Delivery (Time to Market):
By breaking the project into small increments, teams can release functional parts of the product much sooner, rather than waiting until the very end.
Enhanced Customer Satisfaction:
Since the customer is involved throughout the process and sees regular updates, the final product is much more likely to meet their specific needs and expectations.
Improved Quality and Lower Risk:
Continuous testing and reviews happen after every "Sprint." This means bugs and errors

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT ?

Posted: Apr 22, 2026 3:42 AM

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David Portas London, United Kingdom

I guess you are talking about software products? The trend in recent years seems to be ever more frequent and continuous releases: daily or multiple times per day is nothing unusual. Agility is of course standard practice in software delivery, but the Scrum framework and Sprints (fixed iterations of 5 days or more) are arguably much less important because cycle times are so much shorter now.

Posted: Apr 22, 2026 4:38 PM

Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

Agile will not provide anything of you state in your post exept organizations understand that Agile is a matter of enterprise architecture. Is that because I am saying that? No. It is because it is defined in "the genesis" that was in 1990 inside the USA DoD/Agility Forum and then taking by software domain and adapt it to create software products. I was part of both movements.

Posted: Apr 22, 2026 5:54 PM

Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

I somehow agree with Sergio.

Posted: Apr 23, 2026 8:25 AM

Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa

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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic

I agree with most of what you’re saying.
At the same time, I’ve seen teams follow the structure and still struggle because nothing really changed in how they work.
It makes a difference when the focus stays on priorities and outcomes rather than just following the process.

Posted: Apr 23, 2026 3:09 PM

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