A global clothing manufacturing company often develops multiple clothing lines
simultaneously. Occasionally, the executive design team decides to change
designs after development is under way due to market feedback. This results in
delays, which in turn lead to missed delivery deadlines. How could the company
benefit by applying Agile principles?
Answers
Answer:
Benefits of agile software development include: Focuses on Users. Agile uses user stories with business-focused acceptance criteria to determine product features, each of them delivers value. Also, this provides the opportunity to beta test software after each Sprint and the ability to make changes as needed.
Answer:
The company can install an Agile project management software to easily accommodate last-minute changes to their products.
Explanation:
One of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto states, "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development."
This is not business as usual. One of the main reasons I’ve found that companies stay with heavyweight development processes such as waterfall or CMMI is to manage change. This often involves limiting or locking down scope because, as we all know, adding new tasks to a tight project can have huge consequences and be highly disruptive. As a result, traditional methodologies try to prevent scope creep.
“Yeah, we’ll get to that in the next version," is often the response I hear on waterfall projects when new features are requested. But doing this can often have negative consequences for our products and our customers.
Agile takes a different approach. We recognize the value of last-minute changes and embrace change. We do that by making it inexpensive and straightforward to make changes to software, even late in the development cycle, using continuous integration.