Getting Staff Buy-in for
Agile Development
Commit to change management to overcome initial reluctance when
implementing new development philosophy. By Matthew Josefowicz
For years, increasing organizational agility has been a top priority of insurer IT strategies. In addition to embrac-
ing modular and configurable soft-
ware and service-oriented architec-
ture, insurers are also increasingly
turning to agile development meth-
odologies to improve the quality
and fit of their custom developed
applications. While the benefits of
adopting agile development can be
significant, the change management
involved in educating both business
and IT on this new way of doing
things can be significant as well.
Impact of Agile on New Application Development
Business/IT Alignment
Project Quality
Project Completion Time
IT Productivitiy
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
1-49% Better
No Change
Got Worse
