Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility

Chapter 2. The Business Case for Agility

“The battle is not always to the strongest, nor the race to the swiftest, but that’s the way to bet ’em!”  —C. Morgan Cofer

In This Chapter

This chapter discusses the business case for Agility, presenting six benefits for teams and the enterprise. It also describes a financial model that shows why incremental development works.

Takeaways

Agility is not just about the team. There are product-management, project-management, and technical issues beyond the team’s control. Lean-Agile provides benefits for all, such as:

• Getting customers to tell you everything they are ever going to need from you with any sort of accuracy; they tend toward speculation, much of which is inevitably wrong.

• Emerging designs ...