This document discusses the business case for adopting agile software development practices. It notes that requirements are changing faster and time to market and quality are more important. Traditional development processes are too rigid to address this. Agile development is creating new ways to manage software delivery through practices like incremental, iterative development with customer collaboration over comprehensive documentation and responding to change over rigid planning. Adopting agile makes financial sense through improved delivery of value and return on investment and makes management sense by enabling easier response to change and improved progress visibility. It enables building the right product and focuses on quality and maintainable code. Agile allows companies to take advantage of new market opportunities and requirements.

1. Business Case For Agile Software Dev
Siddharta Govindaraj
Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com
http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/

2. 1. Time to market and quality are more
important than ever before
2. Requirements stability is a thing of
the past

3. Program Managers want to improve
software delivery in this changing
environment

4. Traditional processes are too rigid to
address these concerns
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5. Agile project management is creating
new ways of managing and delivering
software
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6. Quick Overview of Agile Development
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7. We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the
items on the left more.

8. Agile Is ...

9. Incremental
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10. Iterative
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11. Collaborative

12. Evolving

13. Why Agile Makes Sense

14. Financial
Management
Technical

15. Financial

16. 1. Improved Delivery Of Value

17. 2. Earlier Realization Of Profit

18. 3. Improved Return on Investment

19. Management

20. 1. Easier To Respond To Change

21. 2. Improved Visibility Of Progress

22. 3. Enhanced Knowledge Transfer

23. Technical

24. 1. Build The Right Product

25. 2. Writing Maintainable Code

26. 3. Increased Focus On Quality

27. Can companies adapt to the new
market?

28. New market requirements present
new opportunities

29. Agile management enables you to take
advantage of these opportunities

30. That's It! Thank You!
Siddharta Govindaraj
Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com
http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/