While flying to Munich, watching a video about ‘Finding the right solutions as a product manager through Agile’, it came to my mind the number of different problems that we think we’re solving using Agile! Agile, the most popular software development management framework so far, which came to the scene as the glossary of some curious minds that experienced many problems with the traditional ‘Waterfall’ method. I just was wondering, why at the first place we had problems with the traditional model? And does Agile really solve those? I’ll try to answer both questions from a mixed people/business/process perspective. What problems we had before Agile? I’ll list major 3 problems as I see it: High cost of change. No innovation-friendly environments. Illusion of control. Before we start, some hypotheses that we need to agree on: Software projects are a special type of projects that differs from other types of traditional projects (i.e. Constructions, ...
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