How Agile is Transforming the Traditional Lifecycle Model for Tech Products
The traditional tech product lifecycle is slow, deliberate, and typically successful. However, it is often paralyzed by its governing philosophy. The phrase “learn to walk before you run” has been frequently uttered during traditional development meetings, providing a clue as to why the methodology is best described as stagnant with regards to technology innovation, a dynamic process. However, Agile philosophy is beginning to spread into various areas of technology creation, transforming the concept of a product’s lifecycle as well as how it looks to the developers and the customer. Tech developers such as Sonia Randhawa have adopted Agile methods into various projects with overwhelming success, prompting a review of how technology firms are benefitting from the integration. The Traditional (Waterfall ) Lifecycle and Its Faults Whether it is in the area of software development or any other area of technology development, the Waterfall method has a very specific lifecycle . Specifi...