July 2025
Beginner
496 pages
13h 12m
English
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Agile Project Management For Dummies, 4th Edition
by Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller, Dean J. Kynaston
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Chapter 21
Ten Key Benefits of Agile Product Development
IN THIS CHAPTER
Ensuring that products are rewarding
Making reporting easy
Improving results
Reducing risk
In this chapter, we provide ten important benefits that agile approaches provide to organizations, scrum teams, and products.
To take advantage of agile product development benefits, you need to trust in agile principles, learn more about different agile practices and approaches, and discover what’s best for your team.
Higher Customer Satisfaction
Scrum teams are committed to producing products that satisfy customers. Agile approaches for happier customers include the following:
- Collaborate with customers to collect feedback throughout the process so customers get what they really want.
- Ensure that the product owner is an expert on product requirements and customer needs, or knows where to get that information. (Check out Chapters 7 and 11 for more information about the product owner role.)
- Keep the product backlog ...
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