250%
Product quality
Teams using full Scrum improve product quality.
Accelerate wins with Agile.
Agile software development helps teams deliver useful software sooner, learn from users earlier, and adapt as business needs change.
Useful software sooner
Early user feedback
Flexible delivery
Shared ownership
What is Agile?
Agile is a set of principles that guides software development toward flexibility, useful feedback, and steady delivery.
In 2001, seventeen developers in Utah established these principles to keep up with the fast-paced innovation of the internet. Traditional methods, such as the waterfall model, were too slow and could make products obsolete by launch.
Agile is more than a process. It is a belief system focused on quick ideation and a working product. At Ventive, design, development, and delivery teams use Agile to create MVPs that address each client’s most urgent needs.
“Simplicity is the art of knowing what to do and what not to do. Don’t waste time on busy work; work should be productive and valuable at all times.”
Jonathan Cardella, Founder and CEO at Ventive
We embrace Agile to develop working products quickly and successfully.
Unlike traditional methods that can deliver software in years, Agile can deliver in months. This approach incorporates user feedback early so teams solve the right problems from the start.
Regular check-ins with users reduce the risk of releasing a product that does not fit the market and help the team improve product fit throughout development.
What are the core principles of Agile?
Organizations adopt Agile to align everyday decisions around useful software, close collaboration, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
The Agile difference is quantifiable
25%
Productivity
Autonomous Agile teams are markedly more productive.
60%
Revenue growth
Average company revenue increase after moving to Agile.
9%
Failure rate
Agile projects fail three times less often than waterfall projects at 29%.
What are the core values of Agile?
Understand your users, challenge assumptions, and test before launching your product.
Communication: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
01Effective communication between clients, product owners, and project managers is crucial for addressing concerns on time.
Ventive uses regular virtual or in-person meetings with clear agendas to keep clients informed about progress, changes, and challenges.
We use sprints to consistently deliver products, research, and designs, adapting our communication to meet each client’s needs.
Adaptation: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
02A working product is our priority, and we adjust in real time to meet market changes. Agile development helps the product serve users’ needs from day one.
We constantly seek easier and faster ways to achieve project goals. Our flexible team is ready to adapt to help the product succeed.
Collaboration: Responding to change over following a plan
03Our Boise office supports direct collaboration between UX designers, project managers, and engineers without departmental barriers.
We connect remote, in-person, and hybrid employees so collaboration stays seamless and delivery remains on time and on specification.
Trust: Working software over comprehensive documentation
04You are our focus. We build products that help you serve your customers and deliver what users want.
We quickly deliver an MVP that solves the most pressing problem.
Our team brings diverse talents and stays at the industry’s forefront through continuous learning.
Four myths that hamper Agile adoption
The iterative approach can grind to a halt when a team gets stuck on false beliefs about how Agile works in software development.
Agile is the only answer.
Success can come from different project management principles. Teams do not need to be exclusively Agile, and some thrive with a mix of Agile and traditional methods.
Agile is faster.
Agile is not necessarily the fastest way to develop software. It builds on successes iteratively to create a better product, with working software as the priority.
Agile is undisciplined.
Self-directed teams choose their tasks. The work can look chaotic to teams used to top-down leadership, but its strength lies in coordinated teamwork and faster decisions.
Agile has no deadlines.
Agile remains deadline-focused while adapting to change. It discards irrelevant solutions while respecting hard deadlines, client needs, and the investment in the project.
“Collaboration is at the heart of the Agile framework. Collaboration between clients and product owners. Between product and design. And between users and owners.”
Vlad Dzhidzhiyeshvili, Technical Advisor at Ventive
Work with our Agile team
Launch your product faster with our five-time award-winning app development team based in Boise, Idaho. Partner with us to build and scale your digital products while reducing defects and costs.
40%
Product defect reduction when Cisco switched to Agile.
$30 million
Annual savings for PlayStation Network after moving to Agile.
Your idea deserves better.
Tell us what you are building, what needs to move faster, and where user feedback can reduce risk.