One of the touted benefits of agile development is better early information on project problems and issues. This early detection enables management — project and otherwise — to take adaptive actions. However, early problem detection comes with its own problem — discomfort with early information. In waterfall projects management and staff are used to getting information about problems late. This leads to a perception that projects are typically on-track until late in the lifecycle. In fact, the lack of working software until late in the project provides a false sense of progress. Because coding and testing come late in waterfall projects, they “appear” to be in good shape — until the end when the project …
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