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Is Agile Really The Way Forward Or Just A Cultural Industry Change?

For a long time, agile was considered as a set of management practices relevant only to the software development industry. This was considered so as the original document the “Agile Manifesto for Software Development” was written by software developers. However, this methodology is now spreading to all types of organizations after being recognized by McKinsey & Company, Harvard Business Review and the 2015 learning consortium Project in 2016. What is Agile? It is a methodology which uses an iterative and incremental approach to product development. This allows the development teams to tackle the unpredictability of the development process. Instead of treating the development as one process, it is divided into a number of smaller tasks. The entire idea is to reduce operational/developmental dependency. It also ensures that all the team members perform their roles individually to maintain the fixed timelines. What is Agile methodology ? This methodology adopts iterative...