The Agile software development movement offer alternatives to traditional project management. Among the most popular means of introducing this kind of management model is through Scrum, thanks to its simple-to-employ methodology.

To help businesses respond to unpredictability, Scrum emphasizes empirical feedback and team self-management. This concept was developed under the premise software should not be developed on an assembly line, with each phase depending on the previous. That’s because this perpetuates a lack of communication between the specialized groups that complete each phase of work. It is much more forward thinking and visual to describe your vision to a software team if you could react to functional software. Agile development provides opportunities to assess the direction throughout the development lifecycle. That is, instead of software development teams only having one chance to get each aspect of a project right, they continually visit and revisit every aspect of development.

This approach to development effectively not only reduces development costs, but time-to-market as well. This is because teams can develop software at the same time they’re gathering requirements. Agile development helps companies build the right product and preserves a product’s critical market relevance.