benefits+of+agile+methods

There are many benfits but the four most important benefits of agile methods are rapid learning early return on investment increase control responsive to change

   Stakeholders see actual results instead of "intermediate "results.    Learning about product/service and learning about process are both accelerated by an **agile** approach. As Ken's anecdote in the sidebar describes, the first cycles will almost certainly deliver incorrect or poor results.    Rapid delivery of valuable results gives an organization frequent opportunity to learn what it truly needs.    Users, consumers, and other stakeholders can participate more effectively in determining what the organization is producing.
 * __RAPID LEARINING__**

Improving ROI occurs in three ways    increase revenue,    costs or reduce    Delivery time.
 * __EARLY RETURN ON INVESTMENT__**


 * __INCREASE CONTROL__**

   The person responsible for prioritizing the work that is being done in an **agile** method is the locus of value control in an **agile** environment.    First and foremost is through the constantly evolving queue of features or results to be delivered by the **agile** team.    Secondly Stakeholders can contribute ideas to the queue at any time and the person managing the queue prioritizes them.

   Change control is put in place because change becomes very expensive in a phase-based process.    The impact of change is necessarily large for all but the most trivial changes. **Agile** **methods** turn this effect on it's head. By allowing change every cycle, well within the duration of the horizon of predictability, the team and the organization learn how to do their work in order to accommodate change.
 * RESPONSIVE TO CHANGE**

Prepared by Ayesha akbar