{"id":20642,"date":"2020-05-02T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2024-04-18T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:47:28","slug":"where-is-agile-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/development\/where-is-agile-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Agile\u00a0Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some organizations are agile and want to know the benefits of working with this method. While there are many benefits and opportunities to be agile, there are some challenges for leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Agile will build teams and leverage multiple developers against each project, which may mean that the organization can no longer maintain multiple projects as it once tried to support.<\/p>\n<p>Development teams, which are working alone, have an easier time pushing past unrealistic workloads than individual developers, and this requires managers to start passing low-priority projects and products.<br \/>\n<span style=\"border-radius: 4px; padding: 4px 10px 4px 0px; background-color: #d5e9ff;\"><br \/>\nWhen imagining the use of Agile over the next 5 years, there is first a need to shortly look at the use of Agile today and where it started from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Agility was always a desire of the development teams, wanting to close loops much quicker and cut through the \u2018red tapes\u2019 of their organizational bureaucracy. That \u2018revolution\u2019 of developers practicing lean engineering methods cascaded from the bottom upwards to the \u2018evolution\u2019 of <a href=\"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/project-management\/agile-project-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile<\/a>, which has now become the desire of many managements, whether they fully understand it or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Those same managers running the most influential and powerful companies today, well understand though, that as nature preserves the most adaptive species, the business world will do the same. The era of \u201cbig eat small\u201d is evolving into \u201cfast eat slow\u201d and companies who are agile in mindset from top down will adapt the best.<\/p>\n<div class=\"whit-blockquote\">As long as projects get more complex making risk prediction and long-term planning less accurate, and changes keep interrupting projects scope and requirements at a more frequent pace, Agile as we know it today will enhance.<\/div>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But that is only one side of Agile expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong>There are several growing areas and adaptations which have already begun, that continue to be widely embraced by the industry and Agile community already today, but much more over the next few years:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">1.<\/strong> The Agile software development methods that were originally targeted towards software centric companies, are now seen implemented in hardware, services and more traditional industries such as Automotive manufacturers (e.g.: Jaguar Land Rover), Supermarkets (e.g.: Albert Heijn), Banks (e.g.: Lloyds) and retail giants (e.g.: Target). These adoption journeys will continue growing and become more common over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">2. <\/strong>The Agile software development methods that were originally targeted towards development teams, are now spreading to other functioning areas of the organization, such as HR, Sales, DevOps, Procurement and other departments. That trend will go upwards and increase over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">3.<\/strong> The Agile software development methods that were originally targeted towards Web and IT domains, are now used in mission-critical systems. That will drive more systems and companies with that character realizing robustness of Agile development and get more exposed to that over the next few years.<\/p>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/mobile-apps\/best-instagram-font-generators\/\">7 Best Instagram Font Generators (Apps & Websites)<\/a><\/span>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">4.<\/strong> The Agile software development methods that were originally targeted towards small, co-located teams, are increasingly applied in large scale programs, with cross-border operations and multi-site software development teams. And so larger scale projects adopting Agile and global multinational projects practicing Agile will not be unusual over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">Moreover, <\/strong>with the exponentially higher adoption of Agile that may be seen due to the above trends over the next few years, there is also a need for a more structured and robust establishment for practices standardization. That leads to one more area that will be highly evolving over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Today everyone can either be certified or a certificate provider in the many Agile frameworks out there, with no oversight or supervision. As the Agile mindset and concepts will get widely adopted, so will the need for benchmarks and standards of Agile best practices.<\/p>\n<p>Agile methodologies will foster teams and harness the collaboration of multiple developers for each project, potentially leading to a shift where the organization reevaluates its capacity to sustain numerous concurrent projects. This restructuring underscores the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmap.io\/agile\/agile-at-scale\/organizational-agility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organizational agility<\/a>, enabling adaptability and responsiveness to evolving project demands and market dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some organizations are agile and want to know the benefits of working with this method. 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