Why Use Agile Development in Your Company?

For someone in charge of software development, agile methods should be a process that you investigate. The movement of agile methods into the mainstream makes it imperative to delve into the reasons why agile development is working in many organizations.

Organizations with software development groups have processes that allow the organization to predict development efforts. Even if the organization does not have that process defined formally, there is a process. In cases where your process is not formerly defined, that would be referred to as "cowboy coding" techniques. What follows is a brief description of Agile development along with reasons why an organization would adopt agile methods.