059: The Top Benefits of Adopting Agile Practices

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussions among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles.</span><strong> </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, Craig Brown and Thom Singer welcome</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Alena Keck, the Lean-Agile Enterprise Transformation Leader.  Alena has joined the podcast to discuss the benefits of utilizing agile software and explain how to maximize the value that you are delivering to your customers.  She offers suggestions on ways to overcome adaptation limitations or resistance and highlights the four pillars of overcoming challenges in the automotive industry.  The conversation concludes with an honest look at the ways that the pandemic has forced a change on all of us that just might result in more effective teams and creative results than ever before.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Bringing the benefits of agile software practices to the automotive industry</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the main differences between waterfall and agile systems?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Complex and empirical systems benefit from agile systems </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agile can better support the changes that are made based on consumer preferences.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Benefits include decreased time to market, which is expected from the best companies.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Quality in continuous test