Developer Advisory Services for ISVs : Agile Methodology and New Product Development: Four Key Issues

Agile Methodology and New Product Development: Taking a new product idea and turning it into a delivered product is quite challenging and it has lots of unknowns to deal with. Using agile methodology for these projects is desirable but very challenging due to a number of risk factors. Most common risks that are likely to impact a new product development using agile methodology are:

1. Changing core requirements

2. Unknown technical challenges that have not been verified with a prototype

3. Incomplete system architecture

4. Lack of framework for continuous integration

Developer Advisory Services for ISVs : Agile Methodology and New Product Development: Four Key Issues

There’s also Jesse Ezell’s Silverlight thread of research…