Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Doing Regular Demonstrations

After a team starts implementing user stories, the stories completed at the end of each iteration can—and should—be demonstrated to stakeholders. For development organizations, this is perhaps one of the greatest advantages of adopting agile—the ability to get on-going feedback from customers throughout the release. By regularly demonstrating to your stakeholders and getting their immediate feedback, you develop a high confidence that what you’re building will meet your stakeholders’ needs. For those times when you learn from your stakeholders that you’re going down a wrong path, or that they don’t particularly like something you’ve done, you have the ability to immediately correct it before going further down that ...