• 1. Quick and Early Feedback: A dedicated Product Owner or Subject Matter Expert who holds the vision of the product and who decides the required features, the ROI of product, and so is responsible for success of a product, provides an early feedback at every small constant duration called Sprint to ensure meeting desired objective from business point. It helps to address Wrong assumption or not meeting the acceptance criteria at the every stage of Development.
  2. Surface out Issues and Risks: quickly on a continual basis and the action plan for it. It essentially happens within the sprint during Sprint Planning, Daily Meetings as well retrospective. Scrum Master with the help of team updates a Risk Register and address with all stakeholders for every sprint. And so either mitigate or reduce Risk. Any dependency or blocking also addressed on daily basis during stand up call.
  3. Focused – Self Organized –Self Motivated Team: The most important point in Agile is that it is people oriented – Individual & Interaction over processes and Tools. Agile principles help in establishing morale and culture of empowering the agile development team and delegate the responsibility to the whole team to analyze, estimate and plan for delivery. It keeps them motivated by constant communication, by collaboration and by independent in planning and estimation and so the productivity improves.
  4. A Continuous Deployment and Release: An Incremental & Iterative model, a Continuous delivery approach holds hands together. Continuous delivery is possible with Iterative model with Incremental deliveries. It builds the Customer Satisfaction by early & continuous delivery of valuable software as customer can see the little progress on daily basis as well each sprint.
  5. Early to market with minimum basic features: The faster to market the easier to compete, and so more on Return on Investment. While waterfall model consider all deliverables as a single package and so it won’t consider the individual component completion as a milestone, same time Agile works in continual delivery fashion.
  6. Adjust quickly with Change Requests: Unlike waterfall all changes are requested and taken care by change control board, in Agile – the team, Scrum Master & Product Owner act as Change Control Board unless there is a specific team in the organization who validate the changes. Product owner describes all possible changes required during sprint planning meeting by prioritizing the story. Unless scope & schedule is fixed agile always embraces changes. Scope can be adjusted when schedule is fixed.
  7. Low in Technical Debt & Dependencies: “Technical debt “a generic term and what it means that we are liable to clear the debt of Codebase/ design. If design is not stable then the code base is loosely coupled and it became difficult to manage all dependencies components while any change in any part of base. Agile can address these issues by Test Driven Development, Behavior driven development, Continuous integration, Code Clean, Refactoring as well pair programming.
  8. Clear Visibility & Predictability: In most delivery projects the visibility is very low at any point of time unless it reaches at its deadline and almost zeros predictability of the project outcomes till it tested and handed over. Agile helps in establishing the clear visibility of deliverables for every sprint / iteration level. It is easier to predict the products success due to constant feedback from customer/ PO for each phase of small cycle called sprint. Due to small releases Agile always build the right product.
  9. Low in defects & More Quality: Due to continuous integration, Test driven development agile delivery model helps to reduce defects. Any leakage in defects can be addressed during the build & Integration, during code coverage, during sprint demo. The more frequent visit the lower in Defects and so chances to establish a better Quality.
  10. Changing Priority is Continuous: Current scenario market is easy to be unstable due to technology boom, due to very high customer demand, due to geographical/political requirements or any organizational factors. And so the priority changes. Agile always address these high priory task during planning meeting.

  Conclusion: Agile methodologies have proven to be a game-changer for businesses seeking to enhance project management practices, drive innovation, and deliver customer-centric products and services. By embracing Agile, organizations can adapt to changing market dynamics, foster collaboration, and achieve faster time-to-market. The top 10 reasons outlined in this article illustrate why Agile is a powerful framework for organizations of all sizes, industries, and project types. By leveraging Agile principles, businesses can unlock their full potential and thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape.

“Unlock faster delivery, improved collaboration, and adaptability in a changing market—Agile empowers teams to innovate and deliver value continuously.”

Pratap Sahoo