Avoiding Buyer's Remorse with Agile: Part I

by David Spann

Are you a corporate leader or upper-level manager considering whether to implement one of the agile methodologies, such as XP, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method, or others, because you have heard about its ability to deliver increased quality, business value, and customer satisfaction? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a recent analysis of benchmarking data, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah found that companies implementing traditional development practices are three times slower and expend eight times the effort/cost of agile practices.1 Similarly, Israel Gat, BMC's VP of distributed systems management, recently said, "In an era characterized by requirements changing faster than traditional development cycles, agile development has helped BMC reach a level of proficiency that enables us to respond to our customer needs much more quickly."2

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Avoiding Buyer's Remorse with Agile: Part I15 February 2008