Hello and Welcome to our SPOC or Scrum Product Owner Certified course.
In this video, we will cover the first module,
what is Agile and why use Agile of chapter 1.
Agile and Scrum overview
What is Agile?
Why is it useful?
Who can use Agile?
And other concepts of Agile in brief.
So first let’s see “What is Agile”?
According to popular Agile Guru Jim Highsmith being Agile is to possess the ability to both,
create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability”.
Agile is being adaptive to change;
being flexible;
being able to cope with change
Now let’s seek answer for the next question.
What is the need for Agile?
Before we answer this question,
let us look at the factor that contributed to the development of this approach.
We will take the example of the smartphone market
to understand the need for adaptability.
Rapidly changing market and technology --
the need to be cutting edge
Shrinking the “time to market” of products
and increased innovation from the customer end
Reduction of testing and experimentation costs (simulations and automation)
Customer value is delivered at point of sale, not at the point of plan
Need for an adaptive method of development
rather than traditional, predictive methods
It is in such rapidly changing environments
that predictive methods do not succeed,
and we seek adaptive methods for project management.
It is interesting to note that the practice of Agile
is not restricted to software development only.
It can be used in any project irrespective of its complexity.
Any industry that faces rapid changes will find Agile helpful.
Fast paced changes in technology, systems, as well as in customer behaviour
have rendered traditional models of management inefficient.
The failure of these models has given rise to methodologies with Agile values.
Thank you for learning with us.