Agile development brings cost efficiency to Public Sector digitalization

Do you know what historic event took place at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah in 2001? That’s when 17 significant pioneers of agile development discussed the foundation of new software development methods and created a historic declaration known as the Agile Manifesto.

Contract bureaucracy, procurement laws, and organizational complexity sometimes seem to corner both clients and suppliers when the goal is to develop effective yet cost-efficient services. Remembering the original principles of agile development helps in improving efficiency without compromising quality.

If adhering to specific processes and tools takes precedence over understanding individual strengths and motivations or fostering teamwork, work becomes unnecessarily rigid. This leads to a loss of benefits that could be gained from a more agile approach.

Therefore, agile development emphasizes:

• Individuals and interactions over rigid processes and tools

• Working software over documentation set in stone

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

• Responding to change over unyielding adherence to plan

At HiQ, agile software development has been mainstream for ten years, and I regularly revisit its principles, especially when working on public sector projects.

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