Enterprises are moving towards agile software development methods to increase productivity and project quality. Agile projects must adhere to agility best practices to increase their success.
Best Practices
There are seven best practices for operating agile projects. These best practices span all
size of IT organization and generally apply to all agile projects. Follow these practices to optimize agile software development and drive improvements to the projects' bottom line.
- Stress frequent releases. Long iterations tend to hide problems. Minimize risk and increase control by keeping iterations short (e.g. three to six weeks). Short iterations allow flexibility and adaptability to changing realities. They also allow the project team to catch problems faster and fix them before the problem spins out of control, or the project runs significantly over budget. Projects are completed in stages with a series of deliverables rather than a single final product. This makes modifying the direction...
