How Are Scrum and Agile Methodology Important For Your Start-Up?
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Ankit Patel - June 21, 2017
- 3 min read
The hustle of a start-up tends to invite into the product development process a destructive chaos that is typically the cause for potential doom, a risk that every aspirer is aware of. It is to combat this very impediment that the Scrum and Agile methodology is brought into practice. Over the various other development methodologies like the Lean and the Waterfall, the Agile methodology is propitious for aspiring developers due to its iterative nature.
Agile and scrum methodology involves collaborative cross functional units habitually aligning their corresponding facets of the product development process with the incessantly evolving clientele requirements. Adaptation to requirements volatility, the resulting flexibility, and efficiency and rapidity are central to this methodology.
The Scrum and Agile methodology has frequently proven to be effective for larger companies, and for the following reasons, will definitely be an efficacious methodology in start-ups:
• Allows for Information to Dispense Among All Participants of the Development Process
Often, the synchronization of various elements involved in the production process is disjointed due to insufficient interaction among individuals. The Agile methodology makes it mandatory for there to be regular meetings, progress updates, contributing suggestions and a harmony that creates a well-oiled machine that produces the required results; everything that you would want your company to be.
• Adapts to Handicapping Constraints
Budget and time constraints are to be expected when working on a start-up. Agile methodology, due to its smaller and more coherent teams, not only saves time and money but can also, as aforementioned, cater to the fickle whims of a modern audience. At all points throughout the production process, everyone knows what everyone else is working on.
• Stakeholders are Always up to Date
Scrum, a subset of the agile methodology, involves elements like burn down charts and product backlog charts that keep all stakeholders well informed. More often than not, key stakeholders are not a part of the production process; therefore, the scrum subset of the agile methodology allows for there to be an excellent rapport between the participants of the production process and all the stakeholders like product owners, users and founders.
• Constant Feedback Boosts Quality
Rapidity, and a sense of enterprising and potency are instilled in every working individual when the agile methodology is in operation. Therefore they respond to feedback from stakeholders with a vigor that will help a start-up focus its efforts on creating a final product of the best possible quality.
• Encourages a Cohesive Work Ethic
Each employee of a start-up that works on the agile methodology learns to interact with his colleagues with a concise understanding of his own work and how it relates to his colleague’s work. The prospect of having to progress collectively creates a sense of belonging and responsibility that result in a healthy and active work atmosphere.
There is a great chance that scrum and agile methodology will work for start-ups, because of their small and closely-knit teams. This ensures good communication and productivity in leaps and bounds. The testing allows for rectification of problems early in the development. It also helps keep projects on schedule and yields better returns on magnanimous investments.
Despite having different workplace dynamics in comparison to large companies, the scrum and agile methodology works for start-ups too. In fact, it is the solution to several problems that aspiring developers have to face.
A properly implemented scrum and agile methodology of product development will promote self-organization, accountability, frequent inspection and ameliorating permutations. Therefore, a start-up that places its faith in this methodology will bear bountiful fruits, creating a product that caters to the current market’s hunger for flexible products.
Ankit Patel is a Director of Sales & Marketing at XongoLab Technologies LLP and PeppyOcean, A leading mobile app development companies. In his free time, He likes to write articles about technology, marketing, business, web, and mobile. His articles featured on YourStory, E27, Datafloq, JaxEnter, TechTarget, eLearningAdobe, DesignWebKit, InstantShift, Business Magazine, SimpleProgrammer, and many more.
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